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A screen shot of Primus’ newly renamed International Carrier Services website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider Primus Telecommunications Group ( www.ptgi.com ) announced on Tuesday it has completed its acquisition of wholesale telecom exchange services Arbinet ( www.arbinet.com ) in an all-stock transaction. The merger agreement was first announced last November, and further amended on December 14. As a result of the transaction, Arbinet stockholders will receive about 0.5817 shares of Primus common stock for each share of Arbinet common stock that they hold

Peruvian domain name expert and general manager of Latin American and Caribbean TLD Association (LACTLD), Erick Iriarte Ahón, is seeking election to parliament. Iriarte, a regular at ICANN and domain name meetings in Latin America, is a candidate for the Peruvian Congress in the upcoming election representing the Partido Aprista Peruano (Aprista Party).

Usman Arshad, director of business development at HostDime (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In his presentation “The Challenges of International Business – a Latin American Example”, HostDime director of business development Usman Arshad looked at the many benefits of expanding a hosting business internationally, as well as the strategies for taking on such a initiative. Though HostDime has opened branches in many locations around the world, Arshad uses the company’s expansion to Latin America as the primary case study for his presentation. The main and most obvious advantage of expanding a business internationally is that there is a faster growth rate compared to firms that operate locally

Web Hosting News – RENTON, WA – Cloud services enablement leader, Parallels, today announced the finalists in its second Annual Partner Awards.  Winners will be revealed at the Parallels Summit 2011 ( www.parallels.com/summit ), February 23-24 in Orlando, Florida. The Parallels Partner Awards recognize and celebrate partners that have achieved outstanding success using Parallels products, solutions and services throughout the year to increase customers’ sales and revenue. As SMBs move to the Cloud in droves, it is essential that companies drive efficiency to accelerate growth, become a full service provider to grow profitability and reduce churn and partner with established companies with differentiating skill-set.

A global map of Terremark’s data center locations (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT infrastructure provider Verizon Communications ( www.verizon.com ) announced on Thursday it will acquire cloud services provider Terremark ( www.terremark.com ) for $1.4 billion.  Verizon says it will likely begin the tender offer between February 10 and February 17 for all shares of common stock of Terremark, which is a total of 35 percent per share over Thursday’s closing price. Terremark’s board of directors unanimously approved the deal, as it was also approved by the directors of Verizon present and voting.

A global map of Terremark’s data center locations (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT infrastructure provider Verizon Communications ( www.verizon.com ) announced on Thursday it will acquire cloud services provider Terremark ( www.terremark.com ) for $1.4 billion.  Verizon says it will likely begin the tender offer between February 10 and February 17 for all shares of common stock of Terremark, which is a total of 35 percent per share over Thursday’s closing price.

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting, 2010 report 1

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

A map of countries included in HostDime’s Latin America division (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider HostDime ( www.hostdime.com ) announced on Wednesday it has launched HostDime Latin America ( www.hostdime.la ), the company’s eighth international division and third in South America. The move follows cPanel’s recent announcement that it will expand its services into the South-American region via its Fast Update service hosted at HostDime data center in Brazil