A screen shot of the US General Services Administration website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure service provider VeriSign ( www.verisign.com ) announced on Thursday it has been selected by the US General Services Administration ( www.gsa.gov ) to operate the nation’s domain name registry for .gov. The move comes just a few months after the GSA awarded 11 companies a five-year, government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement to offer Infrastructure as a Service solutions to all levels of government through the gateway Apps.gov. Following a competitive RFP and evaluation process, the GSA granted Verisign the authority to provide designated domain name registration services to federal, state and local governments operating sites under the .gov and fed.us domain names

Hosting News – DULLES, VA – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, has been selected by the U.S.

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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

Graphs showing attack traffic to three of the retailers from November 27th through December 4th (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud optimization services provider provider Akamai Technologies ( www.akamai.com ) reported on Monday it has helped protect several leading retailers from distributed denial of service attacks during the three-day period following Cyber Monday. In addition to several standalone attacks, Akamai observed high volumes of coordinated attacks against five independent Internet retailer top 500 customers from November 30th through December 2nd. The highly distributed attacks caused some of the websites to see traffic spikes of up to 10,000 times their normal daily traffic.

Graphs showing attack traffic to three of the retailers from November 27th through December 4th (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud optimization services provider provider Akamai Technologies ( www.akamai.com ) reported on Monday it has helped protect several leading retailers from distributed denial of service attacks during the three-day period following Cyber Monday. In addition to several standalone attacks, Akamai observed high volumes of coordinated attacks against five independent Internet retailer top 500 customers from November 30th through December 2nd. The highly distributed attacks caused some of the websites to see traffic spikes of up to 10,000 times their normal daily traffic

2010 According to Twitter.com Monday, December 13, 2010, 11:56:53 AM This week, microblogging and social networking site Twitter.com announced the Top 10 Trends of 2010. The overall Top 10 turned out: 1.Gulf Oil Spill 2.FIFA World Cup 3.Inception 4.Haiti Earthquake 5.Vuvuzela 6.Apple iPad 7.Google Android 8.Justin Bieber 9.Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows 10. Pulpo Paul Some of the top ‘People’ that trended were Justin Bieber, first female President of Brazil Dilma Rouseff and Lady Gaga and and although Twitter was accused of sensoring any tweets containing references to Wikileaks.org, its founder Julian Assange still ranked number four in the list