A screen shot of AICPA’s SSAE 16 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider NationalNet ( www.nationalnet.com ) announced on Tuesday it is in the process of attaining Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 certification.

A screen shot of AICPA’s SSAE 16 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider NationalNet ( www.nationalnet.com ) announced on Tuesday it is in the process of attaining Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 certification. INetU Managed Hosting announced earlier this year it achieved compliance with SSAE 16 , five months in advance.

The market for providing services for generic Top Level Domain applicants is growing ever more crowded. This week AusRegistry Internation announced the establishment of a strategic relationship with Crowell & Moring, a leading international law firm recognised for its expertise in a number of areas including the domain name industry, to offer a range of consulting and technical registry services to new Top-Level Domain applicants.

This is an update on the progress of the 2011 ICANN Nominating Committee. ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) began its work in December 2010 following the ICANN Annual Meeting in Cartagena, Colombia.

Go Daddy President and COO Warren Adelman presents Wednesday morning at Parallels Summit (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — One of the early keynotes Wednesday morning at Parallels Summit was delivered by Warren Adelman, president and COO at hosting giant Go Daddy – interesting partly just for the fact that Go Daddy itself is an unusual sight at hosting industry tradeshows, though Adelman has, in the last year or so, become a more regular participant at Parallels events. His presentation went in a few directions, first to a bit of joking around Go Daddy’s sort-of-notorious, sort-of-tasteless advertising and his own efforts to try something more conservative.

House websites go to Drupal Chief Administrative Officer seeks preferred vendors By Alice Lipowicz Jan 11, 2011 The House is moving its 520 websites to the Drupal open-source platform and the 93 freshmen members will get the new platform first. A flexible Drupal hosting platform is now the preferred Web hosting environment for House websites, according to a Sources Sought notice posted online recently by Dan Strodel, chief administrative officer of the House. Drupal is an open-source software that can operate websites and is compatible with a number of Web 2.0 and social networking applications.

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