It took close to two months for .CO to reach the significant half million active registrations when it became available for general registration following its relaunch in July of this year, but it only took eight days for the Russian Cyrillic domain .РФ (.RF – Russian Federation or Российская Федерация in Cyrillic) to pass the same mark.

DedicatedNOW CEO Jason Silverglate presents on cloud infrastructure at HostingCon 2010 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider DedicatedNOW announced this week that it is celebrating its 13th year in business this month. The company was founded in New Jersey in 1997 by CEO Jason Silverglate, and has since grown from a small shared hosting operation into a large managed service provider with its own facility and more than 5,000 servers under management.

Ashland, OR (PRWEB) October 27, 2010 Sharefaith, founded in 2002, provides media solutions for over 16,500 churches worldwide.

The inclination to “shoot the messenger” bearing bad news is a well-known sentiment. In the online media world, news Web sites really are getting shot at — with massive denial-of-service attacks aimed at taking them offline. ‘Political’ cyberattacks hit half of large companies One large Web-hosting company in France is striving to protect the Web sites of its European media customers, which has meant fending off distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that have brought sites crashing down in the past

This Sunday, Silver Lake agreed that they would buy a small amount of stake in Locaweb.

BusinessDay.co.nz It’s the classic dot com tale. University friends launch an internet-based company armed with little more than a hunch. That was 1997.

Trusted Computing Group eyes cloud security framework The Trusted Computing Group Monday announced a working group aimed at publishing an open standards framework for cloud computing security that could serve as a blueprint for service providers, their customers and vendors building security products. Known as the Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Work Group, there are about 50 TCG members participating, including HP, IBM, AMD and Microsoft

GoDaddy.com has put itself up for the auction, and could well sell the giant web hosting company to a private equity firm for more than billion US dollars. GoDaddy.com is a popular domain name and web hosting company, and it’s a surprise for many people to see GoDaddy.com on auction block for sale. Frank Quattrone led ‘Catalyst Partners’ was hired to sell the GoDaddy.com

Those of you who like getting nostalgic every now and then will be happy to hear that Lycos, one of the first major Web brands, has been acquired. Daum Communications, a Korean-based search company, announced that it has sold off Lycos for $36 million to Ybrant Digital, an India-based digital marketing company. The Korea Times reported the sale early Monday

Techcrunch just broke the news that Digg’s Kevin Rose is calling its quits with Diggnation , his weekly Web show about picking a topic and then drinking yourself silly trying to explain it.