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So how did Bido.com do with their one auction a day concept after their June 18th launch? The sales data follows after the break.

Bido Sales week 2 June 22-28

Date
Domain
Bids
Price, $

06/28/08
marriagerights.com
7
$540.00

06/27/08
housetips.com
9
$432.00

06/26/08
panelist.com
12
$1,866.00

06/25/08
cerealbox.com
38
$2,695.00

06/24/08
vacantroom.com
15
$179.00

06/23/08
domaintalk.com
12
$2,415.00

06/22/08
spywarehelp.com
17
$1,564.00 […]

In an official statement posted on Slashdot.org Godaddy.com attorneys have stated that they found nothing improper with the bidding activities of Godaddy VP Adam Dicker at the companies TDNAM.com expiring domain name marketplace.  The official statement goes on to explain that in the future all Godaddy employees will be prohibited from participating in any future […]

Manchester, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - Online hosting services and solutions for the interactive entertainment industry, Hypernia Hosting Corp, has become a global partner with U.K.-based game publisher, GamesMasters.com LTD, for the MMO game, Cabal Online.

Hypernia was selected by GamesMasters.com LTD as their official international online partner based on Hypernia’s lengthy and successful history in the online games space, as it is known for providing tier-1 bandwidth for CDN, gaming and media streaming. Hypernia’s large volumes of equipment, bandwidth and facilities around the world enable game players to enjoy a robust multi-player experience.

GamesMasters.com publishes high quality games for the European online games market. GamesMasters.com is best known for their successful MMO title, Cabal Online, an RPG game product with 90,000 users, with a recent acceleration in subscribers to an additional 10,000 players per week. This rapid rate of increase in players, plus a high level of customer service, ensures that the game remains one of the best free-to-play games on the market.

James Vallord-Costa, CEO and co-founder of Hypernia, noted, ”GamesMasters.com cut their costs for bandwidth considerably after joining us. With the ‘flex computing’ capability of our on-demand utility hosting model, they were able to add new expansions and games without the added risk. Most companies would not be able to experiment with a new expansion or game, but we made it easy for them.”

GamesMasters.com will utilize Hypernia’s on-demand utility hosting model which provided flexibility and cost savings, enabling the company to undergo significant service improvements in recent months. These included the addition of updated payment methods, the release of several large patches which has vastly increased the content of the game Cabal Online, a host of new features including new hunting grounds (the Chaos Arena), new rewards for Player vs Player action (players can now gain EXP from PvP) and several important bug fixes. As a direct result of their hosting partnership with Hypernia, these upgrades have produced positive results and Cabal Online is now one of the largest games in Europe.

Hypernia provided multi-gigabit feeds as GamesMasters.com increased their player base. This functionality guaranteed an excellent Internet connection for players, no matter how many extra users were online simultaneously. To accommodate for game world growth, Hypernia also provided GamesMasters.com with new servers during different periods, while also providing an inexpensive CDN solution to keep the GamesMasters.com patches and downloads affordable for all the new users.

Thorsten Schauer, company Director at GamesMasters.com LTD offered, ”GamesMasters.com believes that game play should be easy and convenient for all MMORPG game players. With that in mind, Cabal Online was designed for new users and other MMORPG users who will be able to easily adapt to our game system. Cabal Online does not require long periods of game play. Hypernia’s role as our global hosting partner has been instrumental to our marketplace achievements with this game play plan for our customers.”

By allowing GamesMasters.com to host their own files, Hypernia helped keep users on the Cabal Online web site, instead of impacting the site’s ‘’stickiness” by driving players to third parties for file down-loading. Hypernia also provided full 24-hour customer support, a crucial feature since more than fifty percent of the Cabal Online players are based in Europe.

With the intention of providing a rich diversity of gaming styles for our customers, Games-Masters.com publishes MMO games from both the USA and Asia. The product of these two deeply differing cultures provided a gaming experience to suit all, and even niche groups of players. Initially, GamesMasters.com began publishing games crossing several genres such as Fantasy, Sports, Real Time Strategies and even Casual gaming, before expanding further into other genres.

Founded in 2001, Hypernia Hosting Corp engaged the Internet data center market with innovative service offerings that would help businesses and individuals take advantage of the speed and global reach of technology and the Internet. Hypernia believes that for organizations to be successful, they need a partner that provides solutions that spark independence and confidence in their new way of doing business. Hypernia established its high volume network for intense application hosting such as online gaming in 2002, and continues to be a leading provider of complex Internet hosting for enterprises with mission-critical Internet operations.

To learn more about GamesMasters.com LTD, please visit: www.games-masters.com.

For more information about Hypernia Hosting Corp, please visit: www.hypernia.com.

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - Web host and Internet hardware networking firm, Cisco Systems, has released new products and professional services, designed to assist customers with virtualization efforts for data center operational and energy efficiency.

The company states that the new offerings make the virtual network an efficient platform for delivering data center services - accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation.

John McCool, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Data Center, Switching and Services Group, and co-chair of the Cisco EcoBoard noted, ”Real-time collaborative applications, energy concerns and the need to achieve greater efficiency from assets are driving IT managers to transform their data centers through new technologies. By providing virtualization technologies across the data center, Cisco aims to help businesses achieve the agility and resiliency they need to compete on a global scale.”

Cisco Systems, Inc. was founded in 1984, by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University and provides Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions. Cisco employs over 47,000 staff worldwide. The company’s core development areas include routing and switching, as well as dvanced technologies such as: IP Communications, Network Security, Wireless LAN, Storage Area Networking, Home Networking, Video Systems, and Application Networking Services.

To learn more about Cisco, please visit: www.cisco.com.

Washington, D.C. - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - Managed data center hosting provider, Servecentric, has been selected by Tier 1 facilities-based ISP, Cogent, in order to significantly raise Ireland’s rating as a location for multi-national Internet companies, with Ireland’s only data center.

The Cogent high performance multi-national Tier 1 network carries over 17% of the world’s Internet traffic.
Cogent’s cost effective fibre network will provide Servecentric customers with the ability to have almost limitless multiple Gigabit expansion opportunities.

Dave Schaeffer, CEO at Cogent explained, ”Connecting Dublin was a priority for us because of all the opportunities to serve large bandwidth customers in Dublin. We are happy to be working with Servecentric and look forward to providing the Dublin market with competitive pricing, superior network performance and a very high level of customer service.”

Cogent is consistently ranked as one of the world’s top five Internet providers and currently takes its 80 - 200 Gbps backbone network and connects it to over 100 metro markets throughout North America and Europe. The network connects Servecentric to Manchester and Servecentric to London, meaning that it is very secure, with no single point of failure.

Companies that depend on micro-second connections between end-users and the core Internet applications are a key target for the new service. These include online trading, gaming, and voice and video over Internet services, where end-users want to minimise time-wasting network hops. Cogent, as a tier 1 Internet network ensures best quality and fewest possible hops from network-to-network.

Among the seventeen carriers connecting to the Servecentric data center, Cogent has been selected as one of only three providers whom any client can access via Servecentric’s core internet mesh.

Lori Brown, VP EU Sales and Product Management, noted, ”Cogent has found that once our presence is established in a data center, customers quickly turn to Cogent for our competitive pricing and quality of service. Customers then experience our award winning customer service and remain a customer for a long period of time.”

Helga Muir, Sales and Marketing Manager at Servecentric commented, ”Our mutual propositions perfectly compliment each other. We have the existing client base with the high bandwidth multi-national needs that Cogent seeks. Similarly, Cogent’s low-cost Tier 1 network will provide direct access to many of the world’s largest corporations and internet data centers, makes Servecentric’s proposition more attractive from a cost and quality point of view. Gaming is a great example of the new generation of services who place a serious value on having a single global network connected to hundreds of millions of people. With Cogent, we can enable gamers from Salzburg to Seattle to play in true real-time on a seamless network that reacts faster than the human reflex.”

Servecentric is a wholly owned, private funded, Irish organisation. It was established in August 2002 and has its headquarters in Blanchardstown Corporate Park in Dublin. It is currently Ireland’s leading managed services and data center operator and provides high-quality, scaleable solutions from single cabinet collocation services to full-scale provision of managed services.

Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI) is a multinational, Tier 1 facilities-based ISP, operating one of the largest capacity IP networks in the world with lit capacities ranging from 80 to 200 Gigabits per second. Cogent specializes in providing businesses with high speed Internet access and point-to-point transport services. Cogent’s facilities-based, all-optical IP network backbone provides IP services in over 100 markets located in North America and Europe.

Since Cogent’s inception, Cogent has unleashed the benefits of IP technology, building one of the largest and highest capacity IP networks in existence. This network enables Cogent to offer large bandwidth connections at highly competitive prices. Cogent Communications is headquartered at 1015 31st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007.

To learn more about Cogent, please visit: www.cogentco.com.

For more information about Servecentric, please visit: www.servecentric.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - Web hosting company, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has included dedicated network-attached storage (DNAS), a scalable and fully-supported file-based storage system, to expand its storage portfolio offerings.

Designed for enterprises requiring access to large storage, the application is built on the NetApp[R] FAS2000 series storage system. Rackspace DNAS comes in multiple flexible configurations designed by Rackspace storage experts, all of which include several data protection solutions to offer instant backup and data recovery while ensuring the highest security and reliability of customers’ stored data. DNAS is offered in a modular architecture allowing customers to buy smaller storage ‘packs’ providing multiple terabytes of usable storage space.

John Engates, CTO, Rackspace Hosting noted, ”Regulatory requirements, sophisticated applications and the flood of media-rich Web 2.0 sites and software as a service are pushing enterprises to collect and store vast amounts of data. These growing needs require very different storage options. We’ve responded to our customers’ requests by pushing storage to the forefront of our product roadmap, unveiling a breadth of solutions ranging from our CloudFS offering designed for developers and businesses that need highly scalable and low-cost storage up to a fully dedicated NAS offering for enterprises requiring large, file-based storage.”

Rackspace DNAS includes access to a team of dedicated NAS experts to help customers design, scale and maintain an optimal storage configuration for their enterprise architecture. For many customers operating on heterogeneous IT environments, DNAS also allows simultaneous access to stored data from both Windows and Linux platforms, a unique capability among industry NAS offerings.

Steven Wilson, Director of IT, PointRoll noted, ”As a provider of rich media advertising technology, our storage needs are considerable with the amount of digital content we develop. As one of Rackspace’s first customers to start pushing for a dedicated NAS offering, we have been able to provide valuable input on what web 2.0 companies are looking for. Rackspace’s new DNAS offering provides the scalability we need, allowing us to buy additional storage packs as our business grows instead of paying for a large amount that we may or may not need up front. This modular access coupled with Rackspace’s support and technical expertise makes it a storage investment that is hard to beat in the industry.”

In addition to its new dedicated NAS offering, Rackspace’s expanding storage portfolio includes:

* CloudFS, a web-based storage offering that is currently undergoing beta testing and provided through the company’s cloud hosting division, Mosso. CloudFS allows developers to securely store a virtually unlimited amount of data on the web connected through the Rackspace infrastructure.

* Direct attached storage (DAS), a dedicated storage solution for applications that require a lower-cost entry-level cluster or that need an economical solution for expanded storage.

* Storage area network (SAN), an enterprise-class block-based storage option for applications such as databases that require storage that is tuned for optimized performance, low latency, scalability, flexibility and reliability.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on their core business. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and Mailtrust (www.mailtrust.com) a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about Rackspace’s dedicated NAS and other storage offerings, please visit: www.rackspace.com/solutions/storage/dnas.php.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

According to website Zone-H, a group of Turkish hackers hijacked ICANN and IANA domain names on Thursday morning. All of the domain names are registered at Register.com. The group took over control of the domain names, including icann.com, icann.net, iana.com and iana-servers.com. The DNS records were changed and redirected to the hackers site with the […]

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - June 27, 2008 - International business hosting services firm, LeaseWeb’s dedicated solution, has been chosen to support e-commerce Global online shopping comparison web site, Twenga.

Twenga chose hosting by LeaseWeb, in order to initially obtain all of the product data from e-commerce websites indexed, since the company needs more than 100 dedicated servers. LeaseWeb has installed the dedicated servers at EvoSwitch, the CO2-neutral datacenter. Expanding rapidly internationally, Twenga chose The Netherlands for its hosting provider.

LeaseWeb provides a Linux-based dedicated hosting solution to Twenga, which uses the sizeable LeaseWeb hosting network (with a current capacity of 210 Gbps). The rapidly growing solution initially uses over 100 servers divided over several 19-inch racks at EvoSwitch, the CO2-neutral datacenter.

The hosting solution’s design was developed by Twenga’s engineers in collaboration with LeaseWeb’s engineers. The heavy crawl technology will require even more hardware capacity in the near future.

The company has explained, ”A good shopping search engine that displays accurate results with the right products and prices needs a lot of capacity. Right now the TwengaBot uses about 100 servers, which together scan some 100 million web pages per day. But the LeaseWeb engineers will have to add new servers for us every day. I even expect that within just two years we will need to have more than 500 servers in place at the datacenter.”

Recently, LeaseWeb was selected by new multilingual Internet platform for live broadcasting, zaplive.tv, for its international hosting network.
Because of the size of the Dutch hosting provider LeaseWeb, the zaplive.tv went live in April 2008. Everyone can easily make his own programme or even his own web-tv via the portal, all for free.

Companies, institutions and private persons can stream concerts, parties, reports on hobbies or sport events, even press conferences, only using a webcam or camera and a computer with Internet connection. zaplive.tv not only is live but also interactive. Users can communicate via live chat and rate single broadcasts as well as commenting on them.

As an Internet start-up, zaplive.tv hopes to generate enough Internet traffic to attract advertisers within a year. Christian Steiger, Technical Director and Co-Founder of zaplive.tv explained, ”Our earning model depends on the Internet traffic we generate. And it started off well. We had a lot of interest from viewers in the first weeks. One point surely was our programme including performances of top ten bands. We had the finals of German premier league basketball and real Hollywood stars on the red carpet. And one user was streaming live from one of the biggest electronic parties in Germany with DJ-Sets from some of the world’s best DJs.”

zaplive is a multilingual portal for live streaming, based in Germany. Companies, institutions and private persons can use the streaming platform for a live and global broadcast of their events, such as concerts, parties, hobby reports, sport reports or press conferences. Users only need a camcorder or webcam and computer with Internet connection. The streaming technology, on which the platform is based, ensures that the live images can be displayed via the Internet. zaplive started in April 2008 after four months of hard work to take the platform into production.

LeaseWeb is an international supplier of hosting products and services that specializes in both Microsoft and Linux, and focuses primarily on the professional market. The company is among the top 20 hosting providers in the world and provides services such as web hosting, dedicated hosting, colocated hosting, VPS and streaming, as well as technical support. LeaseWeb owns a Cisco-powered network offering a bandwidth of over 210 Gbps, which extends across five data centers in the Amsterdam region via the major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present on Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna , Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb now manages 11,000 servers. Its customers include Starbucks, Hyves, Telegraaf Media Groep, Koninklijke Joh. Ensched, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AVRO, Direct Wonen, and University.

To learn more, please visit: www.leaseweb.com.