DotAsia have announced the global launch of Chinese (Traditional and Simplified matched), Japanese and Korean IDN .ASIA domains. The launch will commence on 11 May 2011 with a Sunrise phase followed by a Landrush phase commencing on 2 August. For more information see the news release below: DotAsia Announces the launch of .Asia Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) for the Global Chinese, Japanese and Korean Internet Community Asia is continuing its rapid growth as the world’s most populated Internet marketplace, with an expectation to expand to more than 2 billion Internet users in 2013

An image from the Open Compute Project, showing some of Facebook’s data center design Every now and then, an exciting or controversial issue triggers a flood of online discourse.

An image from the Open Compute Project, showing some of Facebook’s data center design Every now and then, an exciting or controversial issue triggers a flood of online discourse. For our Noise Filter feature, the WHIR pans the raging rivers of opinion for shining nuggets of useful commentary

A diagram from NaviSite’s website illustrates the security of its NaviCloud framework (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Thursday that it has achieved the Cisco Advanced Managed Services Certification that recognizes NaviSite’s investment in the ITIL ( www.itil-officialsite.com ) processes to provide high-quality managed services. This news comes a month after NaviSite announced that IT solutions and software firm International Turnkey Systems deployed NaviSite’s managed cloud services . As a partner, NaviSite says it “has made an investment in a network operations center and has demonstrated the ability to support two customers, validated via an independent audit.” “This achievement represents an important milestone in the development and roll out of our cloud-based services,” R

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.

03|29|2011 11:19 am EDT Ebay to Buy PepperJam Affiliate Network Parent GSI Commerce by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments News From The Affiliate World As reported by The Globe and Mail , EBay Inc. (EBAY-Q plans to buy e-commerce company GSI Commerce (GSIC-Q), for $1.96-billion USD in cash.

As part of an initiative to expand the online presence of companies in Australia, Google recently launched the Getting Australian Business Online service.

A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source organization Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld . Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website. Late last year, a database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed by Mozilla.  According to the report, on March 15 attackers used a valid username and password to acquire nine SSL certificates from a Comodo certificate reseller

A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source organization Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld . Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website. Late last year, a database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed by Mozilla.  According to the report, on March 15 attackers used a valid username and password to acquire nine SSL certificates from a Comodo certificate reseller