Before he had even commenced, Thomas Spiller has informed ICANN that he will not be joining the organisation as its Vice President of Europe. ICANN announced Spiller’s appointment to the position on 23 June, during its 41st public meeting in Singapore. A search for an appropriate replacement has already begun. According to a Domain Incite report, Spiller decided to take a position at another company instead, and his decision not to take up position at ICANN “may have predated the announcement of CEO Rod Beckstrom’s July 2012 departure earlier this month.” Spiller is a French national who was to have been responsible for driving ICANN’s strategic objectives in Europe and manage the Brussels office. Previously Spiller has worked for the French Prime Minister’s Office and most recently headed up global policy strategy at SAS, one of the world’s largest independent software vendors. Spiller has worked on topics ranging from education, sustainability and innovation to data privacy and cloud computing.

New registration policies for .HU domain names came into effect on 1 June 2011 with the main change seeing a shortening of the registration procedure for the Hungarian ccTLD’s domain names. Previously “a unique registration mechanism meant that it took at least two weeks to register a ‘.hu’ domain name, which the applicant could not use until its final registration” reports the International Law Office website, a significant disadvantage as it was much easier and quicker for registrants to register domains in other TLDs. “The Hungarian system remains unique in enabling IP rights holders to prevent potential serious infringements before the final registration of a domain name. However, the period within which a trademark owner may object to the final registration of a domain name has been reduced.” For more details on the changes to .HU registration procedures, check out www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.aspx?g=bb828be3-0db8-4394-8ee9-b29a838194a3 . To register your .HU domain name under the new procedures, check out Europe Registry here .

An image, courtesy of Cisco, of the company’s new Allen, Texas data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Networking hardware maker Cisco ( www.cisco.com ) unveiled its new data center in Allen, Texas this week, a facility that will support the company’s internal private cloud efforts, and its IT as a service offering, as well as serving as a showcase for the company’s own data center technology.

A screen shot of SherWeb’s front page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Email and collaboration hosted solutions provider SherWeb ( www.sherweb.com ) announced on Monday it has acquired hosted email provider DNAmail ( www.dnamail.com ). The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

04|01|2011 12:27 pm EDT Mike Cohen Announces His Latest Startup: Reputation Destroyer by Shane Cultra in Categories: April 1 – 0 Comments Mike Cohen, through a press release, introduced his latest project Reputation Destroyer.  A company that will provide the service of bad mouthing, demeaning, and belittling your competition, enemies, or old girlfriends. Using the power of the Internet, Cohen and his new company will provide you the ability to rank first on Google for anything negative you’d like to have posted about your new enemy.  Want them to suck? Done.  Want them to appear to hire illegal 12 year Vietnamese girls to sort mail at the office?

A screen shot of South Dakota’s Ready to Partner website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development ( www.sdreadytopartner.com ) announced on Thursday it has partnered with officials from Sioux Falls, Vermillion and Yankton to attract data center builds to the state. The partnership is part of the GOED’s co-op marketing program, which allows the state and local entities to combine their resources and better leverage marketing dollars

A screenshot shows Microsoft’s Exchange 2010 which enables users to view email by conversation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider SherWeb ( www.sherweb.ca ) recently announced that its Hosted Exchange 2010 now has 15,000 users. Based in Montreal, SherWeb says it is one of few providers to offer a “thoroughly tested Hosted Exchange 2010 solution.” SherWeb says that in light of this milestone, it will offer 25 GB of disk space per use to its package at no extra cost. “We are delighted to see that in the end, our efforts in providing high quality services are paying off by driving a remarkable number of customers towards our business,” Peter Cassar, president and CEO of SherWeb said in a statement.