Company that made a big .com domain purchase in 2010 launches a new product on .co in 2011. Top10.com Media Ltd is no stranger to domain names. Last year the company forked over $1 million in cash and equity for the domain name Top10.com, which it uses for his communications service comparison engine

Jason Waxman of Intel delivers a Thursday morning session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The final morning presentation in the main forum Thursday was delivered by Jason Waxman of Intel.

Bob Angus delivers a presentation Wednesday afternoon (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a Wednesday afternoon session, Bob Angus of Symantec delivered a presentation on securing the cloud. He says there are a lot of security threats out there on the Internet, and customers don’t want to have to worry about dealing with them – that is, as they move to the cloud, they would like security and compliance issues to be taken care of for them.

DiscountASP.NET Partners with Urban Turtle for Hosted and On-Premise Agile Project Management Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 5:48:41 AM Pasadena, CA – March 23rd, 2011 – DiscountASP.NET, a leader in Microsoft ASP.NET web hosting and Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting, announces a partnership with Urban Turtle, a leading agile project management solution developed by Pyxis Technologies. Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET introduces a hosted Urban Turtle solution which is available to their TFS hosting customers as an add-on

Website Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Hybrid hosting, today announced a partnership with the Tech Wildcatters Incubator Program, a Dallas-based “microseed” fund and startup accelerator.

A screen shot of Tech Wildcatters’ front page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies ( www.softlayer.com ) announced on Tuesday it has partnered with the Dallas-based Tech Wildcatters Incubator Program ( http://techwildcatters.com ) “microseed” fund and startup accelerator. SoftLayer will provide the program’s startup companies a $1,000 credit per month for a total of 12 months for any of its services, which includes cloud, dedicated, or hybrid hosting. The company will also give a direct channel to SoftLayer thought leaders, and co-marketing activities including case studies, customer stories, and press releases

When Alexa Raad resigned as the CEO of Public Interest Registry, the .ORG registry, a few months ago there were many who wondered where she was going next. Now we have the answer.

When Alexa Raad resigned as the CEO of Public Interest Registry, the .ORG registry, a few months ago there were many who wondered where she was going next. Now we have the answer. Raad has announced the formation of a consultancy called Architelos to take advantage of the new domain name landscape, offering her services to advise on new gTLD applications and in particular “vertical niches,” for example banking, where there are specific service, technology and security requirements.

[announcement] The WHOIS Policy Review Team was launched in October 2010 in line with the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) provisions, section 9.3.1, which stipulates that: “ICANN additionally commits to enforcing its existing policy relating to WHOIS, subject to applicable laws.

Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante prepare to deliver their report Wednesday afternoon (WEB HOST INDSUTRY REVIEW) — In the first session in the afternoon marketing track Wednesday at the Parallels Summit, Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante presented the results of a study of approximately 600 SMBs, conducted in an effort to gain some insight into their spending on cloud services. They found that US SMBs spend about $8.6 billion annually in cloud services, including $4.9 billion in hosted infrastructure, $2.3 billion in web hosting, $600 million in hosted email and $800 million in Hosted PBX (which seems to be a particular area of new focus for Paralllels). There’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing going on with Parallels’ definition of “cloud services” and the services it designs its products to enable.