Domain & Hosting News
September 2, 2011 — SEO host SEO Web Hosting announced on Thursday that it has named Josh Ward general manager. SEO Web Hosting has offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Durham, North Carolina, and provides hosting across multiple IP ranges using multiple name servers, according to its website. It provides colocation, bandwidth, dedicated servers, and managed services out of data centers in Nevada, Silicon Valley, Philadelphia and the UK.
With blocking of internet content pervasive by many regimes around the world, the most well-known being the Great Firewall of China, Minds+Machines’ Antony Van Couvering examines the issue in light of ICANN’s approval of the .XXX Top Level Domain and the Indian government’s announcement that they will block access to any .XXX website. Writing on the Minds+Machines blog, Van Couvering says “the creation of new TLDs which are offensive to someone, somewhere, will probably increase it. But will it fracture the Internet?” He asks the question in light of ICANN George Sadowsky’s dissent when ICANN approved the .XXX TLD at their board meeting that concluded the recent Silicon Valley San Francisco meeting.
A screen shot of the OpenStack control panel demo (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Dell ( www.Dell.com/OpenStack ), Equinix ( www.Equinix.com/OpenStack ) and Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com/cloudbuilders ) announced on Thursday that they have partnered to develop an OpenStack cloud demonstration and test environment. The demo environment will be available in three data centers, located at the Equinix International Business Exchange in Silicon Valley, and Ashburn, Virginia, and the Rackspace data center in Chicago. The companies also plan to collaborate on additional demo environments in Equinix data centers in Europe and Asia in the second quarter of 2011.
Hosting Reviews – Santa Clara, CA – Vantage Data Centers will be hosting the “Smart Data Center Revolution” at its $300 million Santa Clara data center campus to celebrate the largest LEED platinum candidacy campus in the U.S. and to discuss the commercial viability of a much-needed, fundamental shift in the data center industry towards improved energy and operating efficiency.
Based upon the Board Resolutions at the recent Silicon Valley/San Francisco ICANN Meeting, the adopted 2011-2014 Strategic Plan [PDF, 3.37 MB] is now posted. ICANN’s Strategic Plan is a three-year rolling, annually updated strategic planning process. During the Silicon Valley/San Francisco ICANN Meeting, we received many positive comments on this proposed plan, some of which are highlighted here: The continued use of the four focus areas in a one-page format Clarification in distinguishing the areas of Influence versus Control The addition of specific strategic metrics for each of the focus areas This version of the Strategic Plan includes extensive community feedback, including a 60-day Public Comment period (27.11.10 – 25.01.11).
ICANN announced that based upon the Board Resolutions at the recent Silicon Valley/San Francisco Meeting ,they adopted the 2011-2014 Strategic Plan.This plan is now posted and it’s a three-year rolling, annually updated strategic planning process. ICANN received many positive comments on this proposed plan ,some of which they highlighted on their page : The continued use of the four focus areas in a one-page format Clarification in distinguishing the areas of Influence versus Control The addition of specific strategic metrics for each of the focus areas Here you can read ICANN 2011-2014 Strategic Plan . DKD DomainNews
