The year’s second seven-figure sale, and the year’s biggest to date, topped the weekly sales chart to 7 August. Social.com sold for $2.6 million through Moniker/NameQuiver, easily surpassing the year’s second-biggest sale, DomainName.com, which sold for an even $1 million back in May. In a sales chart covering two weeks due to Domain Name Journal holidays, there was one other sale over $100,000, that of UcakBileti.com (”flight ticket” in Turkish) that sold for $250,000 through NoktaDomains. Jewel.com was the third biggest sale of the week, selling for $74,333, and also the first Sedo sale on the chart. Overall there were 27 .COM domains in the top 40 chart and Sedo sold 24 of the domains with one other being a collaboration between Sedo, Moniker and SnapNames. There were also 11 sales through AfternicDLS. There were ten ccTLD sales, with the top seller being fr.cc, selling for $50,000 and three non-.COM gTLD sales. To see the full listing of Domain Name Journal’s top reported sales in the fortnight to 7 August, check out: dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2011/20110713.htm

June 28, 2011 — The data center market in Manchester is growing, and two separate announcements from UK colocation providers have confirmed this increased demand. Network solutions and connectivity provider SSE Telecoms announced on Tuesday that it will provide connectivity to TelecityGroup’s Manchester 3 facility when it opens later this year. Colocation firm UK Grid announced on Monday that it has expanded its Manchester One data center.

A screen shot of AICPA’s SSAE 16 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider NationalNet ( www.nationalnet.com ) announced on Tuesday it is in the process of attaining Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 certification. INetU Managed Hosting announced earlier this year it achieved compliance with SSAE 16 , five months in advance.

An image from the ConnectWise website, illustrating some of the functions of the platform UK-based cloud hosting provider ThinkGrid ( www.thinkgrid.com ) announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with ConnectWise ( www.connectwise.com ), developer of a business management solution for IT service providers, integrating their solutions in an effort to drive adoption of cloud services by managed service providers. The partnership and integration will give MSPs the opportunity to provision and bill customers for ThinkGrid cloud services via the ConnectWise platform, which includes a pretty specialized and highly developed system for billing and provisioning. In January if this year, ThinkGrid announced a partnership with MigrationWiz , a deal similarly designed to accelerate adoption of its services, in this case by simplifying the process of migrating in-house services into the cloud

03|28|2011 4:15 pm EDT Demand Media to Expand to Europe in 2011 by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments According to an interview by PaidContent:UK , Demand Media’s content division will expand to Europe this year.

A photo of Peak 10’s new Richmond, Virginia data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Managed hosting and data center provider Peak 10 ( www.peak10.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has been recognized for the third consecutive year by the annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service ( www.stevieawards.com ). The company’s senior manager for support services, Jeffrey Brooks, won the Customer Service Manager of the Year award. Peak 10 was also a finalist in the Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year and the Customer Service Department of the Year – IT & Telecommunications categories.

A map of Terremark’s data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Cloud services provider Terremark ( www.terremark.com ) announced on Monday that it has won the Cisco Partner Summit regional award for United States Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year. The annual channel partner conference was held in New Orleans on March 1.  “Cisco works diligently with all of its channel partners, and it is an honor to announce Terremark as a Cisco Partner Summit award recipient,” Jim Sherriff, senior vice president, US and Canada Partner Organization at Cisco said in a statement. “The Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year Award presented to Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud recognizes its performance and expertise as a Cisco channel partner in 2010.” The awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global, according to Cisco.