Namecheap.com Donates to Save the Elephants in Response to GoDaddy Elephant Hunt Hosting Reviews – Los Angeles , CA – Namecheap.com, a leading domain registrar based in Los Angeles, has responded to a recent video showing the CEO of GoDaddy shooting at a parade of elephants in Zimbabwe, killing one. Namecheap has offered a domain transfer special offering all of those disturbed by these actions a cost-effective way to transfer their domains to Namecheap.com. Twenty percent of the revenue generated for each domain transfer is being donated to a charity organization, Save The Elephants.

Hosting Reviews – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, a supplier of open source business-class email and groupware, today announced additional usability enhancements and flexibility, plus enhanced mobile support for smartphones. Open-Xchange users can now choose whether new windows open in a new tab or in a new browser pop-up screen. A new space-saving compact panel is especially useful for tablet users and for those using Open-Xchange on smaller screens

A video still from Greenpeace’s new TV ad asking Facebook to “unfriend coal” (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Environmental organization Greenpeace ( www.greenpeace.org ) released an ad urging social media firm Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) to “unfriend coal” power in its data centers by Earth Day on April 22. The ad will be broadcast in California Wednesday, where Greenpeace hopes to reach many of the company’s 2,000 employees in Silicon Valley, according to a blog post by the Guardian . Realistically, would be highly unlikely for Facebook to change its power source, let alone by the tight deadline set out by Greenpeace.

A screen shot of the BBC front page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The BBC ( www.bbc.co.uk ) experienced a major outage late Tuesday evening that prevented all of its websites from being accessible from 11 p.m. and 12 a.m.

Hosting Reviews – MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates are found on more than 70 percent of the Internet’s top 1,000 SSL-using websites while its closest competitor sits with just 4 percent.

Bogdan Caristoiu, CEO of 4PSA delivers an afternoon session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — One of the first things Bogdan Caristoiu, of 4PSA touched on in his presentation was his company’s definition for unified communications, which can be difficult for customers to appreciate. He says it, “centralizes and organizes communication flows to make them available with minimal effort, from any location and device at any time

Hosting Reviews – BELLEVUE, WA – eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesale registrar, today announced the launch of a new portal, org.eNom.com, designed to drive awareness of the multiple uses for the .ORG top-level domain name (TLD). The new .ORG marketing portal features information to help companies and organizations learn how to best use the .ORG TLD in order to create programs around corporate and social responsibility

A screen shot of the front page of Health Net’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Health insurance provider Health Net ( www.healthnet.com ) announced on Monday that it is investigating the disapearance of nine servers at its data center containing the personal information of 1.9 million policyholders. The health insurer said that IBM, which manages its IT systems, first alerted Health Net about the servers missing from its data center in Rancho Cordova near Sacramento

Could the day be coming when companies want to ditch their own websites, and domain names, and rely on social marketing pages to promote their products or services? That is what Facebook is hoping. In a conference presentation in London this week, Stephen Haines, commercial director of Facebook’s U.K

Web Hosting News – SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the launch of its new Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, the fifth Region in which the company has deployed its global cloud computing platform. Japan-based businesses and global companies with customers in Japan can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. Starting today, AWS is also offering support in Japanese for any customer with a Japanese language preference