Domain Consultant.com’s Domain Madness auction has come to an end with $214,605 worth of domain names being sold. 16 of the 65 domain names were sold . The winner of the $1,000 prize will be announced on April 30th,2011

Latona’s No Reserve Auction at Sedo will end tomorrow ,on Tuesday April 5,2011 at 12:00 EST .The sale will end with 100 percent of these domain names going to the highest bidder. Here are some interesting domain names in the auction and some description : ISU.com Acronym of at least 4 big US universities; and other companies; PageRank 2; Search Results In Google: 38,700,000; Avg. Broad Monthly Searches: 206,250; Avg

An image from the website for Microsoft’s Hosting Summit 2011, which takes place this week (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a study issued on Friday by software giant Microsoft ( www.microsoft.com ) 39 percent of small and medium-sized businesses expect to be paying for cloud services within the next three years, compared to the 29 percent that are doing so right now.

Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante prepare to deliver their report Wednesday afternoon (WEB HOST INDSUTRY REVIEW) — In the first session in the afternoon marketing track Wednesday at the Parallels Summit, Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante presented the results of a study of approximately 600 SMBs, conducted in an effort to gain some insight into their spending on cloud services. They found that US SMBs spend about $8.6 billion annually in cloud services, including $4.9 billion in hosted infrastructure, $2.3 billion in web hosting, $600 million in hosted email and $800 million in Hosted PBX (which seems to be a particular area of new focus for Paralllels)

On Wednesday, we ran the results of a WHIR reader poll on WikiLeaks Every Friday, WHIR editor in chief Liam Eagle assembles some notes on stories from the web hosting industry this week that you might have missed or that might, for one reason or another, be worth revisiting. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — While the attention has faded a little bit in the mainstream press, the big story in the technology news world remains the ongoing saga of WikiLeaks, as the politically-motivated attack activity continues, and the details of the legal battle of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continue to emerge

A chart of one of the results of our WHIR reader poll on WikiLeaks as a customer (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — I’m not going to spend a lot of time explaining the WikiLeaks saga here.

The Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy, implemented on 1 April 2009, resulted in a 99.7% decrease in AGP deletes and illustrates the success of ICANN’s consensus-driven, bottom-up policy development process. Community members identified a problem, initiated policy discussions, and generated a solution that has produced effective and sustained results.