August 9, 2011 — In one of the final sessions of Monday afternoon, Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows presented “This Mobile Moment,” a session on the opportunity in the mobile Internet space, and particularly where that’s an opportunity for hosting providers

On 20 June 2011, ICANN’s Board approved a program that will add to familiar top-level domains such as .com, .org, and .net, the possibility of having almost any word in any language as a top-level domain. This massive expansion of the number of possible domain names calls for an equally significant communications campaign to raise global awareness about the program. The rest of 2011 is a communications period dedicated to raising awareness around the world about the opportunity and risks associated with applying for a new gTLD. The Application period opens 12 January 2012 and will run for 90 days. To help us achieve our goal of educating the world about this program we have issued a request for proposals (RFP). The objective of the RFP is to retain an advertising agency to help us develop, implement and measure the success of a global advertising and awareness campaign for new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs). Please review the attached RFP for an overview of the program, our vision and proposal requirements. Send any questions about the RFP to michele.jourdan@icann.org by 11 July 2011. Responses to inquiries will be posted to a community wiki by 13 July 2011. All responses are due by 8:00a Pacific time, Monday, 18 July. RFP – New gTLD Global Awareness Campaign www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/rfp-new-gtld-global-awareness-campaign-05jul11-en.pdf [PDF, 633 KB] Ad and PR Industry wiki https://community.icann.org/display/newgtladvertising/Home Additional informational material Get Ready for the Next Big .Thing: An Overview of New gTLDs Frequently Asked Questions [PDF, 634 KB] Applicant Guidebook [PDF, 4.81 MB] We look forward to receiving and reviewing your proposals. This ICANN announcement was sourced from: www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05jul11-en.htm

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An image from a vendor whitepaper shows the functions of SoftLayer’s hosting management team (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting giant SoftLayer ( www.softlayer.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has introduced SoftLayer Managed hosting, offering enterprise-class computing environments with 24-hour management and monitoring support for core pieces of those environments, including database, security, monitoring, backup and storage management. SoftLayer, formed last year by the merger of SoftLayer’s previous operations with those of The Planet, created an enormous hosting organization out of the two biggest players in the unmanaged dedicated server hosting business.

A photo of Andrew Bond-Webster, Infinera’s VP of sales for Asia Pacific (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Digital optical networking systems provider Infinera ( www.infinera.com ) announced on Wednesday the appointment of Andrew Bond-Webster as vice president of sales for Asia Pacific to enhance the company’s focus on marketing digital optical network solutions in the Asia Pacific region. This appointment comes two weeks after Infinera n amed Deryck Robinson vice president of subsea sales .

An image from the ConnectWise website, illustrating some of the functions of the platform UK-based cloud hosting provider ThinkGrid ( www.thinkgrid.com ) announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with ConnectWise ( www.connectwise.com ), developer of a business management solution for IT service providers, integrating their solutions in an effort to drive adoption of cloud services by managed service providers. The partnership and integration will give MSPs the opportunity to provision and bill customers for ThinkGrid cloud services via the ConnectWise platform, which includes a pretty specialized and highly developed system for billing and provisioning. In January if this year, ThinkGrid announced a partnership with MigrationWiz , a deal similarly designed to accelerate adoption of its services, in this case by simplifying the process of migrating in-house services into the cloud

Build interactive websites using web hosting Wednesday 13th April 2011 Web hosting users have the opportunity to build attractive, interactive websites which are likely to appeal to their target audience. Once a business has signed a contract with a web hosting provider, they gain access to the server power needed to run shopping carts, helping them to capitalise on the growing popularity of e-commerce. Web hosting users can also take advantage of blog and forum software, which is supported by their web hosting provider.