A screenshot from CouponFollow’s list of elephant-related hosting and domain coupons (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A coupon code tracking website CouponFollow ( www.couponfollow.com ) issued a press release this week, saying it has seen a spike in discounted offerings from web hosting providers targeting customers looking to move their accounts away from hosting giant Go Daddy in the wake of a controversial video of the company’s CEO Bob Parsons shooting and killing an elephant while on vacation in Zimbabwe. Parsons discussed the video in a phone interview with the WHIR , in which he credited “a very vocal minority” with producing most of the objection to the video.

The brokerage firm of MediaOptions.com just announced they sold 3 domain names for a total of $135,000, including HomeBasedBusiness.com for $100,000.

An image of Twitter’s fail whale, the page indicating downtime (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Microblogging site Twitter ( www.twitter.com ) announced on Monday that it has completed migration to a new data center in Salt Lake City, Utah on its fifth anniversary.

An image of Twitter’s fail whale, the page indicating downtime (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Microblogging site Twitter ( www.twitter.com ) announced on Monday that it has completed migration to a new data center in Salt Lake City, Utah on its fifth anniversary. Twitter made the announcement via its engineering blog, and said its “unprecedented growth and sightings of the infamous Fail Whale” prompted the company to make a plan to increase its capacity and reliability. Twitter revealed its migration plans last September.

A screen shot of Codero’s Twitter page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Codero ( www.codero.com ) has been working to restore its service for customers after one of the company’s upstream Internet providers was hit with a distributed denial of service attack early Tuesday morning, according to a report by CNET . At approximately 7:30 a.m. PST Tuesday, Codero updated its Twitter page with this message: “Upstream provider in PHX working to restore a BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) session they dropped and to mitigate a DDoS attack

A screen shot of Codero’s Twitter page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Codero ( www.codero.com ) has been working to restore its service for customers after one of the company’s upstream Internet providers was hit with a distributed denial of service attack early Tuesday morning, according to a report by CNET . At approximately 7:30 a.m

Fake Twitter Notifications Lead to Spam Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:54:00 AM If you’ve received any notifications from Twitter in the last few days, chances are they”re well disguised fakes and will link you to one of many online ‘pharmacies’. The emails, titled ‘Twitter Notification’, come from the @postmaster.twitter.com address and have incorporated one of Twitter’s official email templates to look like the real deal.