12|20|2010 1:37 pm EDT Nominet passes 9 Million Domain Mark by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute , ccTLDs – 0 Comments This week the .uk register passed nine million registrations.

Go Daddy’s Bob Parsons and Renee Parsons present check to Carol Poore of Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy ( www.godaddy.com ) announced on Monday it has donated $500,000 to the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS ( www.swhiv.org ) to launch the Go Daddy Women’s Health Center in Phoenix. Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons announced the donation at the company’s annual holiday event held Saturday at Chase Field in Phoenix

Go Daddy’s Bob Parsons and Renee Parsons present check to Carol Poore of Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy ( www.godaddy.com ) announced on Monday it has donated $500,000 to the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS ( www.swhiv.org ) to launch the Go Daddy Women’s Health Center in Phoenix. Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons announced the donation at the company’s annual holiday event held Saturday at Chase Field in Phoenix. With a budget of more than $4 million, the amusement-theme party featured carnival rides, more than $1 million in employee cash giveaways, Go Daddy Girls, and musical guests Jewel, George Thorogood and the Destroyers and ZZ Top

UltraTools.com offers a Domain Health Report (shown above) that includes more than 70 individual tests spanning nine key categories. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services provider Neustar ( www.neustar.biz ) has launched a new free service that provides a comprehensive set of domain name system tools to help DNS administrators, website managers, and domain owners analyze and optimize their domain and DNS configurations

UltraTools.com offers a Domain Health Report (shown above) that includes more than 70 individual tests spanning nine key categories. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services provider Neustar ( www.neustar.biz ) has launched a new free service that provides a comprehensive set of domain name system tools to help DNS administrators, website managers, and domain owners analyze and optimize their domain and DNS configurations.

Microsoft Urges Quarantine Of Unsecure, Infected Computers A Microsoft security expert is encouraging organizations to quarantine unprotected computers infected by botnets by booting them off the Web. Scott Charney, Microsoft vice president of trustworthy computing, said earlier this week that computers plagued with botnets should be treated in the same way as a person who is infected with a highly contagious disease, and urged governments, ISP and commercial organizations to emulate a public health model. Charney’s proposed public health approach was outlined in a paper Microsoft published Tuesday titled “Collective Defense: Applying Public Health Models To the Internet,” which encouraged organizations to take alternate and collaborative approaches in preventing cyber threats

A slide from a recent Nominum-sponsored WHIR Webinar (linked at the bottom of the story) (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DNS solution provider Nominum ( www.nominum.com ) announced Tuesday its partnership with non-profit organization StopBadware ( www.stopbadware.org ) and launched its new SKYE Network Protection Services. StopBadware works to stop viruses, spyware, and other badware with the support of Google ( www.google.com ), PayPal ( www.paypal.com ), Mozilla ( www.mozilla.com ) and now Nominum. “StopBadware has a track record of helping companies effectively and responsibly protect consumers from badware,” said Nominum chairman and chief scientist Paul Mockapetris, who joined the StopBadware Board of Directors last month

A slide from a recent Nominum-sponsored WHIR Webinar (linked at the bottom of the story) (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DNS solution provider Nominum ( www.nominum.com ) announced Tuesday its partnership with non-profit organization StopBadware ( www.stopbadware.org ) and launched its new SKYE Network Protection Services. StopBadware works to stop viruses, spyware, and other badware with the support of Google ( www.google.com ), PayPal ( www.paypal.com ), Mozilla ( www.mozilla.com ) and now Nominum. “StopBadware has a track record of helping companies effectively and responsibly protect consumers from badware,” said Nominum chairman and chief scientist Paul Mockapetris, who joined the StopBadware Board of Directors last month.

SOURCE: FireHost, Inc. FireHost Will Protect the Universities’ Critical Medical Websites and Applications DALLAS, TX–(Marketwire – October 5, 2010) – The Biostatistics Center at Johns Hopkins University and the Department of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine have selected FireHost , the leading secure, managed hosting provider, as their official Web host for special projects within their health care divisions. The websites and applications that FireHost will protect contain critical, confidential patient and research data that must remain secure

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