A screen shot of the Japan Data Center Council website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Data centers in the Tokyo-area have so far managed to endure the energy crisis following last month’s massive earthquake and tsunami, but the lack of fuel supply due to the shutting down of nuclear reactors could prove to be taxing during the high demand period of the summer, according to a report by Datacenter Dynamics . Following the Japan earthquake and tsunami on March 11th, the government implemented rolling blackouts to cities in suburban Tokyo after the country’s nuclear reactors were shutdown, in an effort to provide enough generating capacity for the entire country. As previously reported, the Japanese government said it would give prioritizing power and energy supply to data centers .

Lybia decided a few days ago to  block the news webistes and Facebook.After shutting down some websites and Facebook,they decided that this was not enough and cut itself off from the Internet . In Lybia,the Internet is controlled by the government through a telecommunication company Libya Telecom & Technology

The cost of .VE domain names to registrars jumped in price by over 50 per cent on 5 January and is set to jump in price again even further in coming days in rises that will see the prices charged to registrars almost double.

After EveryDNS shut down WikiLeaks.org website,Wikileaks changed its domain name and moved to Switzerland,on wikileaks.ch . WikiLeaks had to move its domain name after EveryDNS ,a Dynamic Network Services’ subsidiary withdrawn its service to it . Not only EveryDNS had to withdrawn its services,but also the government wanted to do this after the website released some secret US diplomatic documents.

The GSA’s new Apps.gov initiative is designed to provide storage, virtualization, and Web hosting solutions to all levels of government in the US. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Infrastructure services provider Eyak Technology ( www.eyaktek.com ) and its enterprise IaaS provider partner Horizon Data Center Solutions ( www.horizondcs.com ) have been awarded a five year, competitively bid contract from the US General Services Administration ( www.gsa.gov ) to provide a suite of virtualized services for the Federal Government Cloud initiative. According to EyakTek’s recent announcement, the awarded Blanket Purchase Agreement, which simplifies the task of obtaining new products and services, is “the culmination of the government’s mandate to move Federal computing to the cloud.” The BPA will let government agencies procure virtualized machines, hosting and storage, through the Apps.Gov portal, which fulfills the government’s mission to move to more efficient, less capital intensive computing solutions

Some experts question efforts to identify cyberattackers Efforts by the U.S. government to better identify cyberattackers will likely lead to violations of Internet users’ privacy and anonymity, and technological means to attribute the source of the attacks may be inaccurate, privacy and cybersecurity experts said Thursday.

The government of Tuvalu has voiced its displeasure at the return it has received from handing over the operation of the .TV ccTLD to VeriSign. Tuvalu received about US$2 million a year from VeriSign for use of the ccTLD, however the country’s finance minister believes this is a poor return. “We are negotiating but we are tied because of the agreement that was signed before us