Social.com, the largest reported domain name sale of 2011, has also topped the June DOMAINfest Europe Auction, selling for $2.6 million. The sale was part of the premium domain name auction that so far has raised over $7.2 million and is expected to reach $9 million. Another big sale was data.com that sold for an officially undisclosed price that significantly exceeded its $1.5 million reserve. To read more, see the news release below: Million Dollar-Plus Figures for Social.com, Data.com, and DOMAINfest Europe Auction Totals Demonstrate Value of Premium Domain Names DOMAINfest NYC Meet-Up and Moniker/SnapNames Online Auction Planned for August 23 LOS ANGELES, Calif. (July 19, 2011) —Moniker® and SnapNames®, both Oversee.net® companies, said today that sales of premium domain names from their June DOMAINfest Europe Auction have now exceeded $7.2 million and are expected to reach over $9 million as a result of the auction. Top contributing sales include the recently closed transaction for Social.com, for $2.6 million, and Data.com, for an officially undisclosed price that significantly exceeded its $1.5 million reserve. The sale of Social.com is the largest publicly reported domain name sale to date for 2011. “These record domain name sales for Moniker are strong indicators that businesses are continuing to embrace generic domain names as strategic tools to build brand equity and enhance market presence,” said Craig Snyder, General Manager of Oversee’s Aftermarket Division. “With two of the largest sales happening before and after the DOMAINfest auction itself, sellers understand the power of leveraging our auction events to showcase premium domain names to corporate buyers.” DOMAINfest New York Meet-up and Moniker/SnapNames Online Auction The DOMAINfest NYC online auction will include top quality domains that offer instant monetization or destination website build-out opportunities. The auction begins on Tuesday, August 23 at noon US Eastern time (9 a.m. US Pacific) and concludes on Tuesday, September 20 at 3:15 p.m. Eastern (12:15 p.m. Pacific). The submission deadline for the auction is Friday, July 29. Details can be found at: domainauctions.moniker.com/2011/DOMAINfest-Meet-up-NYC The New York meet-up will take place August 23 from 7-10 p.m. at the Mad46 Rooftop Lounge, located on the 19th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel at Madison Avenue and 46th Street. Networking opportunities, food and drinks are included. Registration is $150 and is available online: www.domainfest.com/NewYork2011/register

[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 .

Web Hosting Company Provides Hosting to GTP Solutions Ltd Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) April 25, 2011 ORCS Web Inc., a managed hosting provider specializing in Microsoft Windows solutions, has announced that GTP Solutions Ltd, a leading provider of account cards and prepaid cards, has completed the migration of their server hosting solution to OrcsWeb. Contis Group Ltd, the parent company of GTP, determined that moving the hosting from an in-house solution to a managed hosting provider would be the best option in planning for and meeting their long range business requirements

A diagram shows NaviSite’s NaviCloud infrastructure (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Monday that software as a service firm iSentry ( www.isentry.com ) will use NaviSite’s managed cloud services to support and deliver its digital content exchange solution.  This announcement comes a week after healthcare firm Post-n-Track deployed NaviSite’s managed cloud services to deliver its collaboration platform to a community of healthcare organizations.  According to the press release, NaviSite has worked closely with iSentry to create a secure cloud-based environment for DCX.  “With NaviSite’s Managed Cloud Services, we can now offer on-demand, cloud-based resources from within a SAS70 environment,” Gareth Evans, managing director, iSentry Group said in a statement. “The ability to rapidly create new Linux virtual machines, combined with NaviSite’s usage-based pricing makes this cloud-based solution doubly attractive

Web Hosting – SAN JOSE, CA – Future Facilities has introduced 6SigmaDC release 6.1 of its popular data center design and operations software. The new release provides an enhanced toolset for the virtual modeling of electronic components, systems and data centers, enabling cooling challenges to be addressed right throughout the supply chain. Using 6SigmaDC, data center designers can construct a holistic and mathematically accurate 3D model of any facility at any point in its lifecycle

An image of Stephen Harrison, general manager of APAC at ControlCircle (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Data center and managed services provider ControlCircle ( www.controlcircle.com ) announced on Thursday that it has introduced a rapid deployment DDoS mitigation service for SMEs and global enterprises. This launch comes two months after the company opened its Asia-Pacific operations in Singapore . According to the press release, ControlCircle offers a scalable, fully-managed and integrated DDoS to protect from malicious cyberattacks

Inside CoreLink’s data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator CoreLink Data Centers ( www.corelink.com ) announced on Friday it has named Rick Crutchley the company’s vice president of global sales. The move comes just a few months after founding CEO Geoff Hampson resigned from his position to pursue other opportunities, and Charles Picasso was named the company’s interim CEO and executive chairman.