An image from the eApps website illustrates some of the company’s services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email security solutions provider SpamExperts ( www.spamexperts.com ) announced this week that web hosting provider eApps ( www.eapps.com ) had joined its Hosting Partner Program, in order to provide SpamExperts email security products to its customers. According to the announcement, eApps provides its customers with cloud hosting solutions, making the addition of a cloud-based email security product an easy choice. “We chose the in-house cluster solution Local Cloud which runs directly on our own servers,” says Richard Lingsch, president of eApps, quoted in the press release.

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 chart from MessageLabs illustrating a big decline in the volume of spam emails (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports posted last week on the MessageLabs Intelligence blog, operated by the Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) unit, the organization’s scanning has seen a rise in malicious attachments accompanying spam email The post on the MessageLabs blog says that while spam email traffic in general fell dramatically, as expected, following the shutdown of the massive Rustock botnet in March, the company’s spam traps saw a big increase in the volume of spam data hitting its spam traps , in spite of the declining number of emails. The reason turned out to be an increase in the number of emails with .zip file attachments being sent out by the Cutwail botnet, meaning a big increase in the average size of each email, in terms of data. That volume of spam data has been fairly well sustained since March 26, which suggests a bit of a shift in spamming tactics.

An image outlining the makeup of the NetApp partner ecosystem (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing company PeakColo ( www.peakcolo.com ) announced on Friday that it has joined the Partner Program for Service Providers operated by storage solutions vendor NetApp ( www.netapp.com ), giving it access to tools and best practices from the company, along with a more direct relationship with that company’s sales and engineering departments. PeakColo says it delivers its infrastructure as a service cloud computing offerings to customers based, in part, on NetApp storage technologies

ICANN is today posting a proposed draft renewal agreement for the operation of the .NET registry. The current .NET Registry Agreement is due to expire on 30 June 2011. ICANN’s gTLD registry agreements provide for presumptive renewal so long as certain requirements are met

A screenshot of the Online Storage app as it appears on iPhones (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web host 1&1 Internet ( www.1and1.com ) announced on Monday that it has developed a new application for businesses to access documents from a mobile phone.  1&1 Internet launched two new versions of its business website building and hosting tools at the end of March.  According to the press release, the new 1&1 Online Storage app enables business owners to edit and manage documents while traveling or between meetings.  To use the application, users are required to have a 1&1 Online Office account which is included for free with most 1&1 hosting packages

A screenshot of the Online Storage app as it appears on iPhones (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web host 1&1 Internet ( www.1and1.com ) announced on Monday that it has developed a new application for businesses to access documents from a mobile phone.  1&1 Internet launched two new versions of its business website building and hosting tools at the end of March.  According to the press release, the new 1&1 Online Storage app enables business owners to edit and manage documents while traveling or between meetings.  To use the application, users are required to have a 1&1 Online Office account which is included for free with most 1&1 hosting packages. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPad or iPod touch devices and mobile phones with the Android operating system.

A diagram from Cotendo illustrating how its Cloudlet CDN module distributes business logic (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network operator and site-acceleration service provider Cotendo ( www.cotendo.com ) announced on Monday that it has launched Cloutlet, which the company calls the first high-performance, CDN-integrated cloud application environment. According to Cotendo, the patent-pending Cloudlet platform moves business logic to the cloud, and can reduce origin-server calls by up to 90 percent. It delivers content customized by device, user, location or other contextual cues for optimized handling of mobile applications

As part of the ALAC/At-Large Improvements Project, the Office of the General Counsel – in coordination with the ALAC, At-Large Improvements Work Team A, and the At-Large Staff – drafted proposed Bylaw revisions to reflect the ALAC’s continuing purpose within ICANN. These revisions were prepared in response to the Final Report of the ALAC Review Working Group on ALAC Improvements [PDF, 270 KB] (Final Report; 9 June 2009).  The Final Report recommended that the ICANN Bylaws be modified to reflect ALAC’s role (i) in providing advice on policy, (ii) in providing input into ICANN’s operations and structure, (iii) as part of ICANN’s accountability mechanisms, and (iv) as an organizing mechanism for some of ICANN’s outreach (p

An image of the notice of de-accreditation sent to Blue Gravity Inc. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet and domain governing body ICANN ( www.icann.org ) issued a notice on Wednesday that it had authorized the bulk transfers of customer domains from Blue Gravity Inc. and Moozooy Media Inc.