ICM Registry’s messaging around the new .xxx TLD has to do with responsibility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports released Monday, the Indian government has said it intends to block the .xxx domain, following the news last week that ICANN had announced its own intentions to work with the ICM Registry to enable the creation of a top-level domain specifically for adult content. At the news of the domain’s approval, and during the many-years-long buildup to that point, companies operating in the online adult industry had expressed concerns that they would be “ghettoized” by being forced onto the new domain (though no plans exist to push content off the .com domain), and that it would make it easy for governments to arbitrarily block content.

ICM Registry’s messaging around the new .xxx TLD has to do with responsibility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports released Monday, the Indian government has said it intends to block the .xxx domain, following the news last week that ICANN had announced its own intentions to work with the ICM Registry to enable the creation of a top-level domain specifically for adult content.

A screen shot of Tata’s InstaCompute cloud interface (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Indian Web hosting provider Tata Communications ( www.tatacommunications.com ) announced on Tuesday it has launched its InstaCompute cloud IaaS service in Singapore, which also includes Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Published: April 24, 2010 Comment         London(ZimEye) Another Zimbabwe news website, the ZimDiaspora has been hacked by online criminals. The website is no longer functioning and one of the editors speaking to ZimEye Saturday said that neither he nor the Hosting company are able to restore the site at the moment.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts Articles: Advantages Of Linux Dedicated Servers News: MSPAlliance, AccelOps to Present Security Webinar for MSPs News: Digg Uses Cotendo Site Acceleration Suite to Deliver Content to More than 40 Million Visitors News: BroadGroup Postpones DCE 2010 Over Icelandic Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Crowd-sourced content discovery and sharing site Digg ( www.digg.com ) has has enlisted the Cotendo Site Acceleration suite to speedily display the nearly 20,000 news and video submissions it receives daily to its enormous member base numbering more than 40 million. In its Tuesday announcement, content delivery network and site acceleration services provider Cotendo ( www.cotendo.com ) is supplying Digg technology to quickly and reliably deliver all of its new widgets, “Digg this” buttons, default graphic images, and popular downloadable icons, allowing users worldwide to easily link to Digg.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts Articles: Advantages Of Linux Dedicated Servers News: MSPAlliance, AccelOps to Present Security Webinar for MSPs News: Digg Uses Cotendo Site Acceleration Suite to Deliver Content to More than 40 Million Visitors News: BroadGroup Postpones DCE 2010 Over Icelandic Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Crowd-sourced content discovery and sharing site Digg ( www.digg.com ) has has enlisted the Cotendo Site Acceleration suite to speedily display the nearly 20,000 news and video submissions it receives daily to its enormous member base numbering more than 40 million.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts Blogs: WHIR team headed to WebhostingDay 2010 News: WebhostingDay 2010 Poised to Set New Attendance Record News: Trusteer Flashlight Provides Malware Analysis and Remediation for Financial Institutions News: Web Host Verio Reports Record Channel Growth (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Small-business hosting firm Verio ( www.verio.com ) announced on Monday it has seen record growth in its indirect channel, including a 26 percent year over year revenue growth and the addition of several key partners.  Verio’s Global OEM program provides telecommunication companies, cable providers and service provider organizations turnkey web hosting solutions and includes national carriers in 15 countries and on five continents. The company reports that a number of OEM partners joined the program in 2009 including an information and communications technology company in the Philippines , an OSS software and network services provider, an information and communications technology solutions provider in Indonesia, a leading Singapore information communication company, and one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies operating in Brazil.