September 2, 2011 — European colocation Interxion Holdings announced on Thursday that its London, UK data center is reducing its carbon footprint by signing up to 100 percent renewable energy from UK provider SmartestEnergy. Last month, Interxion announced it is building a data center in the Paris metropolitan area, whose first phase will be operational in the second quarter of 2012.

The French country code .FR strode past the two million active registrations mark last week.

Website Hosting News – Paris – Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and leading colocation provider, today announced that it has established a point-of-presence (PoP) with Telehouse Paris 2 Voltaire, located at 137 Boulevard Voltaire, Paris, France. This expansion furthers Hurricane Electric’s network reach in Paris and will give customers in the area greater bandwidth, reduced latency and improved quality of service.  The new PoP will also enable Hurricane Electric to improve fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management infrastructure capabilities for the delivery of IPv6 access services. “With this new PoP, Hurricane Electric is strengthening its commitment to the Paris market and increasing access to its vast IPv6 network,” said Mike Leber, President of Hurricane Electric

A map of Equinix’s data center footprint in France (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Equinix ( www.equinix.com ) announced on Tuesday it is constructing a fourth International Business Exchange data center in the Paris metropolitan area. The new data center, which is set to open in the third quarter of 2012, will further extend Platform Equinix in Europe to meet strong demand for premium interconnection and colocation services in Paris and across the region

[news release] A new on-line tool launched by WIPO on March 8, 2011, will make it easier to search over 640,000 records relating to internationally protected trademarks, appellations of origin and armorial bearings, flags and other state emblems as well as the names, abbreviations and emblems of intergovernmental organizations . The Global Brand Database allows free of charge, simultaneous brand-related searches across multiple collections.

An image of Rajiv Datta, chief operating officer at AboveNet (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Connectivity solutions provider AboveNet (www.above.net) announced on Friday it has promoted Rajiv Datta to chief operating officer.

A workshop on internationalised domain names will be held by AFNIC, the French registry, on 10 February in the lead up to introduction of IDNs to the .FR ccTLD. More information is in the news release below: IDN workshop organised by AFNIC As part of the opening of the .FR TLD to Internationalised Domain Names (IDN), AFNIC is organising a workshop on the issue in Paris on 10 February 2011.