12|02|2010 11:12 am EDT 201.8 Million Domains Registered World Wide by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute , ccTLDs – 1 Comment Share Tags: Tags: .CH , .de , denic , switch , verisign .

Most people get intimidated by the complex jargon and seemingly multifarious concepts that are associated with the practice of web hosting. Instead of taking the time to acquaint oneself with what web hosting really is all about, most of us would rather hire a professional and pay them hundreds of dollars or simply find an alternative to the business. The common phobia associated with technical skill arises more out of ignorance and less out of actual difficulty faced

It’s a piece of Internet history compressed and distributed via BitTtorrent. Wednesday Archive Team said that it is archiving GeoCities in its entirety and will release the backed-up network in one file via BitTorrent. The news arrives just a year after Yahoo! shut down the free web hosting service

Open Source Databases Have Come of Age Client/server systems with SQL interfaces jockey for position against upstart NoSQL systems with intimidating (and exciting) new models for data representation, distribution and consistency.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Phillip Hallam-Baker Joins Comodo to Lead Web Security Software Development as VP and Principal Scientist News: CoreLink Expands Phoenix Data Center News: Tektronix to Acquire Network Security and Management Firm Arbor Networks Articles: Viral Marketing: The Proof is in the Pudding. News: ArabicSSL Provides Arabic-Specific SSL Certificates (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Certificate authority and Internet security provider Comodo ( www.comodo.com ) has announced a key addition to its management team with the addition of Phillip Hallam-Baker as vice president and principal scientist to spearhead Web security and software development in the Americas. According to Comodo’s Wednesday announcement, Hallam-Baker brings 18 years experience in Web security, with the past 12 years spent as principal scientist at VeriSign ( www.verisign.com )

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Phillip Hallam-Baker Joins Comodo to Lead Web Security Software Development as VP and Principal Scientist News: CoreLink Expands Phoenix Data Center News: Tektronix to Acquire Network Security and Management Firm Arbor Networks Articles: Viral Marketing: The Proof is in the Pudding. News: ArabicSSL Provides Arabic-Specific SSL Certificates (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Certificate authority and Internet security provider Comodo ( www.comodo.com ) has announced a key addition to its management team with the addition of Phillip Hallam-Baker as vice president and principal scientist to spearhead Web security and software development in the Americas

YouTube Says HTML5 Not Ready for Prime Time YouTube fired off another shot in the battle for the future of online video this week by underscoring its support of Adobe Flash over HTML5. John Harding, a YouTube software engineer, said that currently Flash offers many useful features not found in HTML5. “There’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video.” HTML5 proponents still have high hopes for the standard, which is still “a work in progress.” Despite predictions to the contrary, Adobe Flash won’t be supplanted any time soon as a major video distribution vehicle on the World Wide Web, according to a software engineer at the Net’s largest video sharing site, YouTube.