EU votes to toughen rules on Internet piracy Members of the European Parliament have opened the door to tough new sanctions on Internet users by voting in favor of a controversial report on copyright enforcement. The non-legislative text, drafted by French center-right MEP Marielle Gallo, was adopted by 328 to 245 votes, leaving the way clear for the European Commission to come up with new legislation imposing criminal sanctions across the European Union.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web host The Planet ( www.theplanet.com ) has partnered with Dallas Data Center ( www.dallasdatacenter.com ) to provide colocation services to Dallas Data Center customers who require less than a full server cabinet.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microsoft Exchange hosting provider Intermedia ( www.intermedia.net ) announced on Tuesday it has launched its affiliate program in the UK and Europe. Just one year ago Intermedia partnered with online affiliate network ShareASale.com to launch its affiliate program in the United States . The free UK affiliate program gives affiliates a program to deliver Intermedia services to their customers, under the Intermedia brand

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Police in as many as 14 European countries are involved in an operation targeting high-ranking members of a “Piracy Pyramid”, and the servers used to deliver that copyrighted content, including those of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay ( www.thepiratebay.org ), according to reports from p2p news site TorrentFreak .

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Google ( www.google.com ) recently revealed that data center design veteran Daniel Costello joined the company’s data center staff, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . “We’re excited to welcome Dan to our infrastructure team,” said a Google spokesperson.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Google ( www.google.com ) recently revealed that data center design veteran Daniel Costello joined the company’s data center staff, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . “We’re excited to welcome Dan to our infrastructure team,” said a Google spokesperson

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — New Delaware-based Web host MyHost Corp ( www.myho.st ) has just expanded its name server grid to Europe, giving it the Domain Name System infrastructure to increase delivery speeds in both the US and Europe. DNS is a hierarchical naming system for any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. While not obvious to everyone using online devices, DNS importantly serves as the Internet’s phone book, translating human-friendly hostnames (such as www.thewhir.com) into a numerical IP address (such as 209.212.149.80).

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft ( www.nimsoft.com ) announced on Tuesday that cloud solutions provider GreenQloud ( www.greenqloud.com ) has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to provide customers with 24-hour visibility into its carbon-neutral compute cloud. By using NMS as part of its Truly Green infrastructure as a service offering, GreenQloud will deliver  intuitive monitoring of customers’ critical applications, systems and network resources via customized portals. Iceland-based GreenQloud says it will be the first truly green cloud hosting service available on the market when it launches its service in beta at the end of the year

Cape Town-based full service Web hosting firm WebNow recently moved offices after occupying its previous space for six years. Since starting up in 1999, the firm has grown to 20 people, as its portfolio expanded with the acquisition of several significant projects. These include a cradle-to-grave online shopping site for Toyota South Africa; the full registration management sites for the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, Junior Cycle Tour, Tricycle Tour and Giro del Capo; and a content management-based site for Cape Town’s Canal Walk Shopping Centre.

Web Hosting News – San Francisco, CA — OpenDNS, provider of the world’s leading Internet navigation and security services that make networks safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced that PhishTank.com, the free community website where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data, reached the one million phishes submitted milestone.