Thursday, February 14, 2008
HostICan will buy out your hosting contract
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Netfirms Reports .ca Success
Canadian Web hosting provider Netfirms announced on Tuesday it is one of the fastest growing .ca domain name registrars, having registered 45,523 new .ca domains in 2007.
The Web host offers certified .ca domains for $9.95 a year, making it one of the lowest priced .ca domains in the industry, says Netfirms.
So far, over 160,727 new .ca domains were registered by Canadian small businesses and individuals last year, turning 2007 into a record year for .ca domain registrations. Over one quarter of all new .ca domains were registered through Netfirms.
The Web host offers certified .ca domains for $9.95 a year, making it one of the lowest priced .ca domains in the industry, says Netfirms.
So far, over 160,727 new .ca domains were registered by Canadian small businesses and individuals last year, turning 2007 into a record year for .ca domain registrations. Over one quarter of all new .ca domains were registered through Netfirms.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Sedo Holds GreatDomains Auction
Domain online marketplace Sedo announced on Thursday that the first GreatDomains Auction (greatdomains.com) of 2008 starts today at 2:00 p.m. EST.
The auction, which will run through January 24, will feature many highly sought after domains, including flats.com, Indian.com, latest.com, test.net and other one-word premium domains.
This marks Sedo's first GreatDomains auction since December’s record auction that featured 308 bidders from 42 different countries who bid on a range of premium domains including via.com, which closed at $157,500, and click.net, which closed at $56,000. The total dollar amount of the auction reached almost $1.7 million, which was accomplished largely in part by the sale of domains like chica.com ($41,000) and fattuesday.com ($16,500).
Sedo announced in November that it concluded its second .mobi "premium name" online auction on November 7, generating $760,000 for generating mobile content tools like taxi.mobi, dating.mobi, homes.mobi and adult.mobi.
The auction, which will run through January 24, will feature many highly sought after domains, including flats.com, Indian.com, latest.com, test.net and other one-word premium domains.
This marks Sedo's first GreatDomains auction since December’s record auction that featured 308 bidders from 42 different countries who bid on a range of premium domains including via.com, which closed at $157,500, and click.net, which closed at $56,000. The total dollar amount of the auction reached almost $1.7 million, which was accomplished largely in part by the sale of domains like chica.com ($41,000) and fattuesday.com ($16,500).
Sedo announced in November that it concluded its second .mobi "premium name" online auction on November 7, generating $760,000 for generating mobile content tools like taxi.mobi, dating.mobi, homes.mobi and adult.mobi.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Liquid Web Sees 2007 Growth
Web hosting provider Liquid Web announced on Thursday that over the past year it has more than doubled its head count and grown its revenues by more than 60 percent, a trend that looks to continue well into 2008, says the company.
For the past 12 months Liquid Web says it has consistently broken its own monthly revenue records and currently employs 107 people, adding approximately 10 to 12 new employees every month.
Liquid Web has specifically hired and trained more than 70 new "Heroic Support Engineers" in 2007 to support its rapidly expanding global and local client base, which includes TechSmith Corporation, Neogen Corporation and Granger Construction.
In September of 2007, Liquid Web has also completed the first of three phases in its second Lansing, Michigan-based data center facility, DataCenter2. It has added over 30 tons of new redundant power equipment to enhance total building resiliency as well as support the second phase of the build out. It has also added an additional Kohler one megawatt generator, Kohler generator paralleling gear, Powerware parallel redundant UPS systems, additional Powerware PDU's and Liebert CRAC units.
For the past 12 months Liquid Web says it has consistently broken its own monthly revenue records and currently employs 107 people, adding approximately 10 to 12 new employees every month.
Liquid Web has specifically hired and trained more than 70 new "Heroic Support Engineers" in 2007 to support its rapidly expanding global and local client base, which includes TechSmith Corporation, Neogen Corporation and Granger Construction.
In September of 2007, Liquid Web has also completed the first of three phases in its second Lansing, Michigan-based data center facility, DataCenter2. It has added over 30 tons of new redundant power equipment to enhance total building resiliency as well as support the second phase of the build out. It has also added an additional Kohler one megawatt generator, Kohler generator paralleling gear, Powerware parallel redundant UPS systems, additional Powerware PDU's and Liebert CRAC units.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Gives Millions to Charities and Employees
With 2007 “the company’s most successful year ever” and a “record year for donations and incentives”, Web hosting provider Go Daddy (http://www.godaddy.com) has given millions of dollars to charities and employees, it was reported recently.
Go Daddy’s philanthropic works during 2007 totaled $1.4 million in donations.
Go Daddy’s employees have also received awards of more than $1 million in 2007, with employee prizes including cash, cars, a year’s mortgage paid, a four-year college scholarship and a trip around the world that included 20-paid vacation days and $10,000 spending money. “We learned a long time ago, happy employees are productive employees,” add Mr. Parsons. “We hold fun contests all throughout the whole year
Go Daddy’s philanthropic works during 2007 totaled $1.4 million in donations.
Go Daddy’s employees have also received awards of more than $1 million in 2007, with employee prizes including cash, cars, a year’s mortgage paid, a four-year college scholarship and a trip around the world that included 20-paid vacation days and $10,000 spending money. “We learned a long time ago, happy employees are productive employees,” add Mr. Parsons. “We hold fun contests all throughout the whole year
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Web Host HostICan Upgrades VPS Plans
Web hosting provider HostICan (hostican.com) announced on Thursday it is increasing the memory of its VPS plans by 50 percent.
The Web host's VPS-Rage hosting plan, which runs cPanel/WHM, will expand from 30GB of hard disk space to 45GB.
Meanwhile, the VPS-Extreme plan will increase from 60GB to 90GB, which HostICan says will make it one of the largest VPS plans on the market.
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