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Web Host News – REGENSBURG – The nifty .CO domain extension is about to enter the final phase of its launch. From July 20, 2010 onwards, .CO domain registration will be open to the general public. Domains can be registered via ten .CO accredited registrars located in North and South America – with the exception of InterNetX – the only .CO accredited registrar in Europe

Web Host News – REGENSBURG – The nifty .CO domain extension is about to enter the final phase of its launch. From July 20, 2010 onwards, .CO domain registration will be open to the general public. Domains can be registered via ten .CO accredited registrars located in North and South America – with the exception of InterNetX – the only .CO accredited registrar in Europe.

Cyber attack shuts down Media Temple Media Temple, a U.S.-based web hosting company, was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack on Tuesday and was shut down as a result, CNET reports. The company hosts the websites for Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen and Starbucks. The attack was first noticed when the company’s servers received a large amount of internet traffic stemming from outside the United States, which lasted for more than two and a half hours

This was written by Michael Cheek on Thursday, May 27, 2010, 8:34.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: QTS Secures $25M in Funding, Expands Santa Clara Data Center News: DDoS Attack Causes Two Hour Service Disruption for Web Host Media Temple News: CoreLink Adds Second Data Center in Seattle News: New Varonis Release Provides Greater Visibility into Unstructured Data Access and Usage Blogs: Thanks for Making our Toronto WHIR Event a Big Success (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Los Angeles-based Web host Media Temple ( www.mediatemple.net ) was struck Tuesday afternoon by the largest distributed denial-of-service attack against its nameservers in the company’s history. According to the company’s reports , the attack, which started around 3:50pm PDT, was the first of its kind to affect Media Temple services, resulting in an interruption of service spanning two hours and five minutes, and affecting such big name clients as Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen, and Starbucks

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: QTS Secures $25M in Funding, Expands Santa Clara Data Center News: DDoS Attack Causes Two Hour Service Disruption for Web Host Media Temple News: CoreLink Adds Second Data Center in Seattle News: New Varonis Release Provides Greater Visibility into Unstructured Data Access and Usage Blogs: Thanks for Making our Toronto WHIR Event a Big Success (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Los Angeles-based Web host Media Temple ( www.mediatemple.net ) was struck Tuesday afternoon by the largest distributed denial-of-service attack against its nameservers in the company’s history. According to the company’s reports , the attack, which started around 3:50pm PDT, was the first of its kind to affect Media Temple services, resulting in an interruption of service spanning two hours and five minutes, and affecting such big name clients as Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen, and Starbucks

Media Temple , the Web host for Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen and Starbucks, was recently shut down by a distributed denial of service attack. “The outage began about 3:50 p.m. PDT [Tuesday], when Media Temple’s domain name servers were deluged by a flood of traffic coming from outside the U.S., and lasted less than an hour, according to the Los Angeles-based company’s blog ,” writes CNET News’ Elinor Mills

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Secure Web Host FireHost Secures $2M in Series A Funding Round Blogs: Videos from the recent Parallels Summit 2010 News: Trustwave Appoints New Channel Manager for Brazil News: Web Host Macquarie Names Data Center Manager (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Information security and compliance solutions provider Trustwave ( www.trustwave.com ) announced on Thursday it has named Celso Hummel the company’s channel manager for Trustwave Brazil. He has more than 15 years of experience in the information security and computer forensics industries, specifically in Brazil