[news release] EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, successfully tested its disaster recovery plan yesterday during a business continuity exercise. During the exercise, the .eu registration systems were transferred from the registry’s data centre in Brussels, Belgium, to an alternative data centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “As the custodian of the .eu top-level domain, we take our duty of maintaining the .eu registration systems very seriously. This year’s business continuity exercise showed that our back-up systems are robust,” said Marc Van Wesemael, General Manager of EURid. “We took this exercise beyond roll-playing and by doing so, actually tested EURid’s real-time capacity for disaster recovery.” It is good business practice to anticipate worst-case scenarios. Yesterday’s exercise prepared registry staff for what to do in the event of a real disaster and so reduced operational risk, allowing EURid to maintain a high level of service to its .eu accredited registrars. Registrars are crucial to the .eu registry’s core business – the registration of .eu domain names. The exercise ran from 10.02 until 12.22 CEST. Following the completion of the exercise, all .eu systems came back online and registrars were able to register .eu domain names once again, proving that should disaster strike, EURid can continue its operations in a sustainable manner. EURid’s 2011 business continuity exercise was externally audited by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. This EURid news release was sourced from: www.eurid.eu/en/content/eu-passes-disaster-tests To register your .EU domain name, check out Europe Registry here .

The 2011 Nominating Committee application period closes today, Monday, April 4 at 23:59 UTC. The 2011 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is seeking qualified candidates for the following key positions within ICANN: Two members of the Board of Directors of ICANN Three At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific and Latin America/Caribbean regions) Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) A few hours before the deadline, the NomCom has received 77 Statements of Interest. 12 candidates are from Europe, 22 are from Asia/Pacific, 11 are from Latin America, 14 are from North America, and 18 are from Africa

Webhosting UK Partners with GlobalSign to Provide SSL and Malware Monitoring Security Solutions Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:47:35 AM London, UK – 31 March, 2011 – GMO GlobalSign Ltd ( www.globalsign.co.uk ), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that leading web hosting provider, Webhosting UK Com Ltd ( www.webhosting.uk.com ) has joined its Partner Program to promote GlobalSign’s full range of SSL Certificates – now fully inclusive of malware monitoring services, to its existing and prospect customers.

GlobalSign Launches OneClickSSL Plug-ins at World Hosting Days 2011 Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 7:04:35 AM GlobalSign , one of the leading providers of SSL Certificate solutions, today announced the launch of the multi-platform OneClickSSL plug-ins at the World Hosting Days 2011 , held at Europa Park in Rust, Germany from the 22 until the 25 March 2011. The OneClickSSL system is being made available at the platform level for cPanel, Parallels Plesk, IIS and Apache (with other integrations being revealed at the WHD event) – thereby offering hosting companies the most efficient way to employ SSL security ever available. OneClickSSL rewrites the SSL paradigm by moving away from the traditional, long-winded and error prone process of SSL provisioning and replacing it with an automated “click to Activate SSL” workflow easily understood by customers of all technical abilities.

Website Hosting News – Redwood City, CA – Racktivity, a pioneer in the development of next-generation data center power distribution and energy management solutions, today announced the availability of its new next generation EnergySwitchTM ES1008 Power Distribution Unit (PDU) solution for energy and environmental management within data centers. Racktivity’s ES1008 gives data center professionals real-time, true RMS measurement capability, predictive analysis and individual power-port level switching capability, all at the industry’s lowest energy consumption available in a PDU device.

Website Hosting News – Boston, MA – GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA), and specialists in SSL security, today announced that it has shown the largest actual increase in the number of SSL Certificates active for the month of February. Enjoying a monthly growth of almost 2000 new secure sites, GlobalSign’s highly trusted SSL technology is being adopted at a faster rate than the other leading SSL Providers Symantec (comprising of its four SSL brands – VeriSign, GeoTrust, thawte and RapidSSL), as well as GoDaddy and Comodo, who all showed a decrease in number of secured sites for the same period. Between 2008 and 2009 the number of sites secured by GlobalSign more than doubled and subsequent years have seen strong growth rates of 64% and 59% respectively – higher than other major players

Website Hosting News – Portsmouth, NH – GlobalSign, one of the longest established European Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that FairSSL  a dedicated Danish SSL provider and existing GlobalSign partner has chosen to further their commitment with GlobalSign by upgrading their partnership status to become a Platinum Partner. Since joining GlobalSign’s Partner Program back in 2009, FairSSL has successfully launched GlobalSign’s SSL Certificate offering to its Nordic customer base and as demand and sales have continued to rise, has decided to  advance to the Platinum level to benefit from the additional features that the Program has to offer. Specialist in reselling SSL Certificates, FairSSL first joined the Partner Program to complement their existing product portfolio with GlobalSign’s simplified and feature-packed range of SSL Certificates.