Website owners around the world using .COM or .NET domain names could find themselves on piracy charges and even face extradition to the US even if their website does not break any local laws The Guardian reported. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is targeting websites outside America that they believe are “breaking US copyrights whether or not their servers are based in America or there is another direct US link, said Erik Barnett, the agency’s assistant deputy director.” The Guardian also reports that “As long as a website’s address ends in .com or .net, if it is implicated in the spread of pirated US-made films, TV or other media it is a legitimate target to be closed down or targeted for prosecution, Barnett said. While these web addresses are traditionally seen as global, all their connections are routed through Verisign, an internet infrastructure company based in Virginia, which the agency believes is sufficient to seek a US prosecution.” To read the full article in The Guardian, see: www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-piracy-extradition-prosecution

By Kirk Ladendorf AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Published: 6:59 p.m. Friday, April 22, 2011 Austin companies ranging from online service providers to a local travel agency felt the sting of a major outage at an Amazon.com data center in Virginia on Thursday and Friday. The effects of the service interruption were widespread because Amazon is a major provider of data center hosting for the fast-emerging market of cloud computing services. That meant thousands of smaller companies were depending on Amazon to run their website operations, store their business data and even keep track of their email service.

[news release] After many attempts, Latona’s Auction House officially decided not to do any more domain auctions on its platform. Sedo dominates the online domain auction space and they do it well. Rick Latona is currently running a no reserve auction there.

A screen shot of the OpenStack control panel demo (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Dell ( www.Dell.com/OpenStack ), Equinix ( www.Equinix.com/OpenStack ) and Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com/cloudbuilders ) announced on Thursday that they have partnered to develop an OpenStack cloud demonstration and test environment. The demo environment will be available in three data centers, located at the Equinix International Business Exchange in Silicon Valley, and Ashburn, Virginia, and the Rackspace data center in Chicago. The companies also plan to collaborate on additional demo environments in Equinix data centers in Europe and Asia in the second quarter of 2011.

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

An image of ServInt CTO Matthew Loschert (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider ServInt ( www.servint.com ) announced on Thursday it has leased more than 50 percent of a megawatt of data center capacity at CoreSite Realty’s expanded facility in Reston, Virginia, which is now under construction. The move comes a few months after the company completed a series of core routing upgrades and network additions that resulted in increasing the company’s overall capacity by more than 200 percent .

Website Hosting News – Englewood, CO – Latisys announced a new data center-as-a-service offering optimized specifically for large enterprises and service providers that have significant requirements for high-density (HD) data center power, cooling and capacity. This new data center-as-a-service offering provides approximately 250 kilowatts to 2 megawatts of HD power as well as N+1 cooling and the ability to scale to meet the growing needs of these enterprises in data centers built for the future. Unlike the traditional wholesale data center’s model of a triple net lease, which requires companies to lease space at a data center facility and then potentially invest capital and additional personnel to run operations, Latisys’ data center-as-a-service offering delivers turn-key data center colocation under a service contract