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Web Hosting News – Vancouver, WA – Dotster.com, a leading global domain name registrar and security solutions specialist, today introduced a corporate class website security solution built around Thawte® SSL Certificates. By offering two types of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection from Thawte, a globally recognized certificate authority, Dotster can offer its domain registration and website hosting customers a range of security solutions for both large corporations and up and coming ecommerce websites. Thawte’s quick yet robust authentication allows companies to easily secure their websites without the hassle typified by other SSL providers.

Web Hosts Rackspace.com and Akamai Technologies Partner Friday, January 14, 2011, 8:54:29 AM Popular web hosts, Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) , announced on Wednesday that it would be forming a strategic relationship with web application acceleration and performance management specialists, Akamai (www.akamai.com) .

Web Hosting News – MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – With an eye toward extending its long-held lead in the low-cost market for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, GeoTrust, Inc. today slashed its SSL prices in half and launched an aggressive new campaign aimed at attracting SSL customers of Go Daddy and other competitors.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to defend its place among the leaders in the market for low-cost Secure Sockets Layer certificates, GeoTrust ( www.geotrust.com ), the digital certificate division of IT security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ), has slashed its SSL prices in half and launched an aggressive new campaign aimed at attracting SSL customers from competitors such as Web host Go Daddy ( www.godaddy.com ). According to GeoTrust, its new “Who’s Your Daddy Now?” campaign lets Go Daddy customers can trade in their SSL certificates with Go Daddy for equivalent GeoTrust SSL certificates at no charge.

On Wednesday, November 3 only, VeriSign Trust Seals are $1 for a 1-year subscription (normally priced at $299). (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – With Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the holiday season, looming, Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign ( www.verisign.com ) is reminding businesses that the visual reassurance provided by the VeriSign Trust Seal could help online sales. In support of this message, the company is offering its VeriSign Trust Seal for only $1 on a 1-year subscription (normally priced at $299) for Wednesday, November 3 only.  The company said it hopes this one-day offer will help online businesses prepare for the busy holiday season, when millions of consumers and businesses head online to research companies, brands and products

Now offered as a trial to GlobalSign customers, the HackAlert solution makes uses both behavioral profiling and signature extraction to reliably detect drive-by downloads, links to content that has been blacklisted, and malware attacks executed via third- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Secure Sockets Layer certificate provider GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.com ) and Web application security firm Armorize ( www.armorize.com ) have partnered to deliver Armorize’s malware scanning services to GlobalSign SSL certificate customers. According to GlobalSign’s Tuesday announcement, the partnership will enable all GlobalSign OrganizationSSL, ExtendedSSL and Managed SSL customers to benefit from 30 days of free malware scanning through Armorize’s HackAlert service