In 2010, trademark holders filed 2,696 cybersquatting cases covering 4,370 domain names with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center) under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), an increase of 28 per cent over the 2009 level, compared to an increase in domain registrations of 6.3 per cent in 2009, and of 16 per cent over the previous record year, 2008. The WIPO Center is the organisation that deals with the largest number of dispute resolutions dealing with domain names

Hosting Reviews – Milpitas, CA – Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, today announced City Network Hosting, a leading provider of hosting services, is using its storage solution for the company’s cloud services platform, City Cloud. Recently launched after more than 15 months in beta, City Cloud is a service used by more than 500 Swedish companies and is the first infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform in Sweden.

Greatresponder.com -2011-03-11- A Massachusetts-based web host provider will remove the “Precious Treasure Holiday Company” website, an undercover website owned by the US Department of Homeland Security.

Raids in Texas Over Wikileaks.org Mirrors Thursday, December 30, 2010, 10:41:02 AM The FBI has made its first raid on a company thought to be involved in initiating the DDoS attacks in defence of Wikileaks.org. PayPal first contacted the FBI in early December stating that “an Internet activist group using the names ‘4chan’ and “Anonymous” appeared to be organizing a distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attack against the company”. The attacks were made in retaliation to PayPal’s refusal to provide Wikileaks.org with their financial services after the site had posted over 250,000 confidential Government documents.

Inside the Pionen data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Australian Web hosting provider OzeVision Web Hosting ( www.ozevision.com ) announced Tuesday it has recently expanded into the Pionen Data Center in Bahnhof Stockholm, Sweden through its hosting infrastructure provider ResellersPanel ( www.resellerspanel.com ). ResellersPanel expanded into Pionen in September . OzeVision has already established a presence in Europe through access to Bluesquare data center in Birkshire, UK.

A WHIR reader survey showed hosts split on hosting a controversial site like WikiLeaks (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Although it launched more than four years ago, 2010 was the year WikiLeaks became a household name. The controversial whistle-blower website had its most memorable year yet, playing out like the plot of a Tom Clancy novel

A screen shot of a WikiLeaks App developed by a third-party firm (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As pressure continues to mount against WikiLeaks, supporters of the whistle-blower website have been distributing its controversial leaked cables through other means. Two Jordanian news websites, AmmanNet.net and 7iber.com (which means ink in Arabic), said on Tuesday they have begun translating into Arabic WikiLeaks-released cables issued by the US embassy in Amman regarding Jordan and the Arab region. In a joint statement, the news websites said they “began this week posting..