Web Host Industry Review: Weekend Reading – February 11, 2011

By Liam Eagle, February 11, 2011

A still from Go Daddy's Super Bowl ad, starring Joan Rivers

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Every Friday, WHIR editor in chief Liam Eagle assembles some notes on stories from the web hosting industry this week that you might have missed or that might, for one reason or another, be worth revisiting. 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Unlike the last several weeks, this week was somewhat shy of big hosting-related headlines. Most of the mainstream media spent at least some of this week looking back on the weekend’s Super Bowl, and we spent a little bit of time on that this week too.

As usual, Go Daddy ran an ad in the big game. And, as usual, the company reported huge spikes in web traffic following the appearance of the ad. The company said on Monday that not only did it exceed its previous records for traffic spikes, but that it had successfully managed to convert much of that traffic into sales. This time Go Daddy spent a bit of time on promoting the recently-launched .co domain.

While we’re on the subject of exciting things happening in Dallas during Feburary, the Super Bowl should come in a close second to our WHIR Networking Event, which will be happening in Dallas next Thursday, February 17. There’s still time for you to sign up, which you can do from this page.

Speaking of WHIR Networking Events, I posted some video footage from our Los Angeles event this week, which you can check out if you want to get a feel for how these things go. Or if you want to laugh at my weak attempts to amuse.

Back to the news.

Early on in the week, we reported on a battle between the Canadian Internet Registry authority and a provider of reseller domain registration whose right to sell the .ca domain was revoked because of its association with a reseller who was reportedly sending out misleading renewal notices.

And on Wednesday, I posted a feature about a new partnership between hosting software platform developer Parallels and Ksplice, the developer of the Uptrack software for updating Linux servers without rebooting – an arrangement the companies expect to be a boon for service providers.

And on Thursday, we reported that security firm Comodo had acquired DNS service provider DNS.com, and launched an authoritative DNS service based on its tools.

On Friday, we reported on Rackspace’s Q4 earnings report, which revealed, among other things, that CFO Bruce Knooihuizen is planning to retire, although he intends to stick around until a replacement can be found.

The last couple of stories are sort of loosely related data center construction matters.

On Thursday, we reported that Texas-based colocation firm FIBERTOWN is breaking ground on a 50,000 square foot data center, a project it is undertaking with the assistance of data center wholesaler Digital Realty Trust.

Friday we ran a cool story on i/o Data Centers opening a factory designed to produce its modular data center containers.

Finally, be sure to check out our Sales and Promos round-up for this week, if you want to grab some deals on hosting, domains and other related services.

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Web Host Industry Review: Weekend Reading – January 28, 2011

By Liam Eagle, January 28, 2011

A graph taken from Renesys' website which shows Egypt's sudden Internet downtime

Every Friday, WHIR editor in chief Liam Eagle assembles some notes on stories from the web hosting industry this week that you might have missed or that might, for one reason or another, be worth revisiting.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Friday was a busy day around the WHIR newsroom this week, as most of the companies, government agencies and African nations with things to get done before the end of the week waited until we closed for the day on Thursday.

Of course I’m being glib, but waking up this morning to the news that the Egyptian government had decided (and, perhaps more significantly, managed) to basically turn off the country’s connection to the Internet was pretty astonishing.

And it had us scrambling, especially falling as it did on the eve of InterXion’s IPO – just about as significant a hosting industry specific event as we’ve seen in the young year of 2011. We also posted a Noise Filter story collecting certain points of fact and opinions from around the web on today’s offering.

The title for most notable hosting industry event of 2011, however, can be safely assigned to the late Thursday announcement that telecommunications carrier Verizon had agreed to acquire publicly-traded data center operator Terremark for $1.4 billion. 

Rounding out that very busy Friday was a bit of a continuation of the WikiLeaks saga that dominated headlines through the last six or seven weeks of 2010. It was reported that the FBI had obtained 40 warrants related to DDoS attacks that have taken place in apparent support of the whistle-blowing website.

Earlier in the week, we saw some other interesting regulatory news, as it was reported that the US Department of Justice was seeking new data retention requirements for ISPs.

And pulling on that thread a little more, WHIR blogger David Snead put up an excellent post this week looking at some of the rules around the effects of injunctions on hosting providers, in light of a recent Seventh Circuit court ruling that an injunction involving a customer’s content could not be enforced against the host.

One more very interesting thing from earlier in the week – after years of non-specific depletion warnings, Hurricane Electric said this week that it expects the final blocks of IPV4 addresses to be issued at the top assigning level by next week, meaning that not far down the road, Regional Registries and ISPs may not be able to fulfill requests for IPV4 addresses.

Of course, this week, as with every week, we’ve gathered a collection of the hosting industry’s sales and promotions, which you can browse in our Sales and Promos Roundup.

Finally, I’d love for you to check out something that we actually conducted last week. We had a great webinar, sponsored by LogicBoxes, on the ICANN accreditation process for registrars. And on Tuesday of this week, I posted the video version up to the WHIR Webinars archive. I highly recommend it.