Domain & Hosting News
The Africa Top Level Domains (AfTLD) organisation has announced it will be seeking to apply for the .AFRICA gTLD. AfTLD will be seeking a mandate to apply for and operate the new gTLD from the African Union and ICANN when it begins taking applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). “We are not just interested in .AFRICA only, but we want to also take on .AFRIQUE, which is the French version of .AFRICA
AfTLD announced recently that they are planning to apply for the .africa TLD .Moreover,Vika Mpisane,AfTLD’s Chairman and General Manager of .ZA, also announced that they are not planning only to apply for .africa,but they are also interested in .afrique . AfTLD plans to apply for .afrique because over 50 percent of Africa speaks French . Here is the press release : “Africa Top Level Domains (AfTLD) organisation has today announced its decision to seek a mandate from the African Union (AU) Commission and to apply to ICANN to manage the .africa registry.
A diagram of NaviSite’s managed cloud services security platform (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Tuesday that Kuwait-based IT solutions and software firm International Turnkey Systems ( www.its.ws ) now uses NaviSite’s managed cloud services. Last week NaviSite named Daniel J
A diagram of NaviSite’s managed cloud services security platform (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Tuesday that Kuwait-based IT solutions and software firm International Turnkey Systems ( www.its.ws ) now uses NaviSite’s managed cloud services.
Daniel J. Van Dixhorn, general manager of the central region at NaviSite (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Monday it has named Daniel J. Van Dixhorn general manager of the central region
The Austrian registry, nic.at, announced at the annual Domain Pulse meeting on Friday that they will introduce DNSSEC late in 2011 following its introduction 12 months ago by the Swiss registry at the 2010 Domain Pulse and its planned introduction on 31 May 2011 by the German registry.
iiNet has teamed with Microsoft for a new virtual private server (VPS) product. Microsoft software will be used to facilitate Web applications hosting on iiNet’s infrastructure.
Laurel Burton, vice president of marketing at ViaWest (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and colocation provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced on Tuesday it has named Laurel Burton vice president of marketing. The appointment comes a month after ViaWest named Daren Castain the company’s regional vice president and general manager for the Utah market. In this role, Burton will spearhead marketing, lead generation, and branding for the company’s five state footprint, including major markets such as Denver, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Portland, Austin, and Las Vegas. ViaWest says it is “aggressively growing both organically and through strategic acquisitions.” Since 2008, the company has added 12 data center facilities. The hiring of Burton to lead ViaWest’s marketing efforts signals the company’s focus on continued market share expansion. “We are very excited to welcome Laurel to the team,” says Paul Gerrard, ViaWest’s EVP of sales and marketing.
