A screen shot of NTT Europe’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider NTT Europe ( www.eu.ntt.com ) announced on Monday it will merge with its managed hosting subsidiary NTT Europe Online. The decision is part of NTT Communications Group’s overall strategy to to accelerate international growth and become a true ICT solution provider.

A screen shot of Netviewer 5.1 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting provider Citrix Systems ( www.citrix.com ) announced on Friday it will acquire European software as a service vendor Netviewer AG ( www.netviewer.com ). Netviewer AG will become part of Citrix’s online services division, Citrix Online, and will help expand its position in the European SaaS market. Expected to close in early 2011, the acquisition will accelerate Citrix’s growth in Europe by combining two complementary companies with a “shared vision for virtual workstyles, innovation and delivering an excellent customer experience”

ICANN’s Nominating Committee (Nom Com) invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill ICANN’s technical and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a Statement of Interest to the 2010 Nom Com for the following positions: 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) The Nominating Committee (Nom Com) is an independent committee tasked with selecting a majority of the members of the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN’s structure

Amazon blames hardware – not hackers – for European outage Anonymous denies Grinch-style attack on Xmas shoppers By John Leyden • Get more from this author Posted in Enterprise Security , 13th December 2010 10:50 GMT Free whitepaper – The Register Guide to Enterprise Virtualization Problems with Amazon’s systems in Europe over the weekend were down to hardware failure rather than hackers, the e-commerce giant said on Sunday. Christmas shoppers trying to complete purchases from Amazon’s online stores in the UK, France, Germany, Austria and Italy were locked out for around half an hour on Sunday

A video still featuring Marc Blanchet, senior vice president of global communication services at Orange Business Services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — French Web hosting provider Orange Business Services ( www.orange-business.com ) announced on Thursday it is launching Business VPN Galerie, a hub linking VPN customers to cloud services via trusted network gateways. With Business VPN Galerie, enterprise users are able to access cloud services whiel receiving end-to-end management and support, reliability, performance and security.

A video still featuring Marc Blanchet, senior vice president of global communication services at Orange Business Services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — French Web hosting provider Orange Business Services ( www.orange-business.com ) announced on Thursday it is launching Business VPN Galerie, a hub linking VPN customers to cloud services via trusted network gateways.

PARIS (AFP) – A French judge declined to force web provider OVH to shut down the WikiLeaks site, OVH said on Monday, after the government called for the whistleblower website to be kicked out of France. The legal challenge came after French Industry Minister Eric Besson called for WikiLeaks to be banned from French servers after the site took refuge there on Thursday, having been expelled from the United States

The main WikiLeaks website address, wikileaks.org, became inaccessible after a US company pulled support for its domain name – drawing accusations of censorship from supporters of the whistleblowing site. Everydns, a web hosting company in California, said they took down wikileaks.org in response to the sustained distributed denial-of-service attacks targeted at it over the past week – which they said was in danger of affecting its services for other customers.

AFP French Industry Minister Eric Besson has called for WikiLeaks to be banned from French servers after the whistleblower website ended up there after being kicked out of the United States. “This internet site… is apparently since Thursday partly hosted by French host OVH,” Besson wrote on Friday to the CGIET, the highest body governing the internet in France.

3 December 2010 Last updated at 06:42 ET Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has been forced to change its web address after the company providing its domain name cut off service. EveryDNS.net said it had terminated services because Wikileaks.org had come under massive cyber attacks. But Wikileaks has already reappeared using a Swiss web address