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News (5):
Endurance Buys FatCow Web Hosting
April 04, 2005
FatCow Web Hosting announced that the company sold its assets to Endurance.
ICANN Publishes Telcordia Report on .NET Rankings
March 29, 2005
VeriSign was evaluated with the highest marks in the ICANN Telcordia Report. In the document are compared the firms competing to maintain the .net top-level domain (TLD).
Microsoft Launches New MSN Search
February 01, 2005
Today marks the worldwide launch of the new MSN® Search (www.msn.com), the first-ever search engine built from the ground up by Microsoft Corp. The new search engine architects are aimed to help consumers more quickly search the Web and get precise answers.
eBay Steps Ahead with Successful Acquisition and New Toolbar Launch
January 17, 2005
Online auction giant eBay recently topped the news with efforts to integrate new technology into its structure. The auction announced the release of a new version of the free eBay Toolbar. Starting last week, users of previous versions of eBay Toolbar were allowed to upgrade to this new version.
Google Goes Mini with New Appliance
January 17, 2005
Google remained in the news tops with releasing of the new appliance. This week, the search engine giant Google Inc., announced the availability of Google Mini. The search appliance enables small-to-medium businesses to access and manage their information using Google search. Editor's Desk (53):
Web Hosting Weekly Review
July 22, 2005
According to the recent IDC study, the global consulting markets are undergoing a phase of uncertainty and business model redefinition.
Web Hosting Week in Review
July 15, 2005
According to a recently released IDC study, the vendor community has shifted its primary attention from Web services creation to that of more robust consumption.
Industry Focus on Security and Expanding Margin of Services
June 22, 2005
IDC reported that protecting data and identities presents significant challenges to most organizations.
Web Hosting Weekly Review
June 17, 2005
IDC: One-third of IT professionals reported that they have adopted a dynamic IT program.
Web Hosting Week
May 13, 2005
According to the last Netcraft report, the Domain registrars' expansion into web hosting has yielded strong results.
Symantec To Keynote At NASDAQ's Conference
May 12, 2005
The leader in information security Symantec Corp. today announced that John Schwarz, Symantec's president and chief operating officer.
Web Hosting Week
April 29, 2005
1&1 Internet, Inc., has introduced an exclusive, first-of-its kind Web content tool.
Web Hosting Week in Review
April 22, 2005
IDC reported in its recent research that the enterprise applications market saw at least 191 reported buyout deals.
Web Hosting Week
April 15, 2005
Rackspace, is once again ranked as the most reliable hosting company site this month.
IDC: U.S. IT Spending Will Increase to $416 Billion in 2005
April 14, 2005
IDC reveals in its last report that the U.S. IT spending will increase to $417 billion in 2005.
Web Hosting Industry Week
April 08, 2005
FatCow Web Hosting announced that the company sold its assets to Endurance International.
Web Hosting Industry Week
April 01, 2005
IDC's released this week FutureScan results depicting good if not spectacular IT spending growth for the next twelve months. The users polled expect their spending to grow by over 8% between now and April 2006.
Internet Security Insights
March 28, 2005
A recently released report by global independent research and advisory firm Financial Insights analyzes the results of a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers to measure the impact of identity theft on consumer fears regarding their banking and online behaviors.
Security Industry Insights
March 23, 2005
In the security sphere, the latest news for new technology implementation came from Symantec. The information security company announced today the availability of Symantec Hosted Mail Security.
Industry Insights
March 21, 2005
According to the Yankee Group last report the monitored trend shows increase in IT performance and business value with utility computing and storage.
Web Hosting Industry Week
March 18, 2005
This week Yahoo! Inc. announced the launch of the Yahoo! Small Business Resource Center. The business unit is a new comprehensive online resource center designed to help entrepreneurs succeed by offering approximately 1,000 articles on key business issues around topics such as marketing, legal and human resources.
Marketing and Security Industry Insights
March 16, 2005
Its only the middle of the week and the web hosting industry has already released some remarkable events. The Speedera acquisition of Akamai Technologies, Inc. will reflect the market share in the industry.
IDC: Storage Software Market Shows Record Revenue
March 14, 2005
IDC released today that the worldwide storage market grew significantly in the fourth quarter of 2004. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the growth is 15% year-over-year to $2.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004.
Researchers Draw IT Future
March 10, 2005
In a recent survey of large European firms, Forrester Research (www.forrester.com) found that infrastructure consolidation will be a top priority during the next 12 months.
Real Time Web Conferencing Gains Popularity
March 08, 2005
Netcraft released that Rackspace, New York Internet, Verio and Pair Networks are ranked as the most reliable hosters during February 2005.
Web Hosting Industry Expands Offering for SMBs
March 04, 2005
IBM and AT&T announced today that they will jointly offer a packaged team collaboration solution. The package will make it easier for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to buy and deploy collaboration software with integrated Internet access capabilities.
Netcraft: Web Continues to Accelerate
March 03, 2005
According to the latest Netcraft survey, there are more than 60 million web sites on the Internet. Netcraft’s reported that the March 2005 survey received http responses from 60,442,655 sites.
IDC: Worldwide Server Market Maintains Strong Momentum
February 25, 2005
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 5.1% to $14.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004, marking the seventh consecutive quarter of positive growth.
WIPO to Combat Cybersquatting
February 22, 2005
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/search/index.html announced it will continue efforts to combat the abusive registration of trademarks as domain names, a procedure known as cybersquatting.
Web Hosting Industry Survey Week
February 18, 2005
The nearly $1 trillion IT market is in the midst of a fundamental restructuring, driven by the challenges of mobility, convergence, security, and globalization, according to the recent IDC release. These challenges and their impact on the years ahead will be the focus of IDC's Directions 2005: Blueprint for the Next Decade.
Investments in Research to Provide IT Industry Extensive Coverage
February 11, 2005
IDC outlined recently a series of ongoing research investments designed to expand and deepen its’ market intelligence and advisory capabilities. The investments in IDC's core research assets will result in greater geographic and vertical industry coverage.
Web Hosting Industry Week
February 04, 2005
Netcraft prognoses this week that SBC Communications' $16 billion purchase of AT&T will create America's largest telecom company.
Web Hosting Industry Firms Attract Customers with New Offerings
February 02, 2005
Last week’s top promotion was launched by 1&1 Internet AG, offering free full-featured web hosting accounts for up to six months.
Web Hosting Industry to Spend More in Internet Marketing
February 01, 2005
This month showed the trend of continuing strength in industry growth. Several merges and acquisitions were in the spot light, including NetSec, Inc. which was acquired by MCI (www.mci.com).
Web Hosting Week in Review
January 17, 2005
As the week continued to present the novelties in the industry with the new launches and forming of successful teams. The week continued with tsunami relief action announcements reflecting the companies’ efforts to help the devastated areas.
Internet Security Weekly Review
January 16, 2005
Recently Linux vendors Red Hat, Novell and Mandrakesoft released patches for several vulnerabilities. The patches range from flaws to buffer overflows. Secunia rated five of the updates "highly critical".
Web Hosting Industry Year in Review - 2004
January 11, 2005
Web Hosting Year continued the industry growth with expansion in adding of new services and dynamic development of the offered services. Netcraft reported 2004 to be dynamic for the web hosting industry year with more than 10.9 million hostnames added.
Weekly Review: Web Hosting Industry
January 09, 2005
Netcraft reporting this week showed the best companies for the last year performance. Of the leading hosting companies, monitored in the period, seventeen providers went through the entire six months with no outages at all, reported the monitoring company.
Web Hosting Marketing Activity Increases
January 06, 2005
According to the latest research published by Netcraft, Datapipe is the most reliable hosting company site during second half of 2004. The agency monitored the leading hosting company sites counting the day’s downtime during the period.
Netcraft: Dynamic Web Hosting Year
December 20, 2004
Netcraft reported 2004 to be dynamic for the web hosting industry year with more than 10.9 million hostnames added. The research showed that the five hosting providers that gained more than 100,000 active sites during 2004 are growing companies and familiar names.
Increase in Phishing Activity Trend
November 29, 2004
According to the latest Netcraft's release, phishing activity has surged in recent weeks. This data is from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) .
Industry Week Review: Researches Predict Enterprise Storage Market Growth
October 15, 2004
The recently released IDC http://www.idc.com study states that in planning their IT budgets, European companies are moving away from cost control strategies towards strategic applications to gain competitive advantage.
Rapid Growth for Security Segments Prognosis
October 01, 2004
In its recent report IDC http://www.idc.com announced that the latest FutureScan results for the month of October show significant growth expectations for the next several years. Buyer Intent, which reflects market demand for IT products and services, is 1041, down from 1085 in September.
Strategy Lead Investments in the IT Industry Projected to Increase
September 08, 2004
The recent Netcraft report announced during August all of the hosters monitored experienced some failed requests, with iPowerWeb, Italian hoster SeeWeb and Rackspace the most reliable sites during the period.
Internet Industry Meets the Future Market and Security Challenges
August 24, 2004
According to Netcraft http://news.netcraft.com/, speculation about hosting IPOs is natural, since many of the industry's strongest recent performers are privately held, including Go Daddy, Rackspace, EV1Servers and The Planet.
Virus Threat Increases and SPAM Harm Online Business
July 20, 2004
The first six months of 2004 showed an increase in the number of attacks against online servers, which caused millions of dollars of losses potentially reaching $20.1million for a global sized company, according to marketing research published in the last week.
Hosting Industry Sales to Double by 2008
July 11, 2004
The outlook for the hosting industry projects continued growth into 2008 expanding from expanding from $5.5 billion in 2003 to $10.4 billion in 2008, as reported by IDC.
United Nations Makes Efforts in the Spam Battle
July 09, 2004
The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) group plans to solve a big part of the spam problem during a July 7 to 9 2004 meeting which focuses on the development of international cooperative measures to counter spam on a global level.
Hosting, Internet services and Domain registration back on stage
June 22, 2004
Worms continue to make their way through the internet despite the ongoing excelling growth of domains and even IP addresses.
Virus Threats Again Emerge over the Hosting Industry
March 29, 2004
The last week industry events flooded the news coverage with announcements for ambitious projects, regulation initiatives and new virus threat attacks.
Waves of security attempts flood the industry
March 19, 2004
The Web Hosting market showed again that one of the top priorities for all web hosting companies is security issues. When it comes to virus threats, the hosting companies are in the hot seat.
Advanced File Storage Keeps Your Business Protected
May 20, 2003
Web-a-File (http://www.web-a-file.com) is a service by Aplus.Net. Offering toll-free 24/7 customer support, Aplus.Net provides datacenter services to hundreds of thousands of customers. Aplus.Net, in business since 1992, is a facilities-based provider located in San Diego, California.
Feature Price rumors grow, dissatisfied users prepare to sue the company
May 16, 2003
The Feature Price (www.featureprice.com) story appears to be gaining momentum after planned for today action of list of their users to post the media their complaints.
Hosting Industry Year 2003 in Retrospection
The hosting industry developed some new trends and products throughout 2003.
Web Hosting Industry Year 2003 Review and Future Look
At the end of each year, HostReview draws upon our industry leaders to frame the picture for the future of the industry. With so many achievements in the past, we look at the trends and how they will affect the future.
Online Storage Services Awards
Storage services are the eagerly awaited solution for online businesses and the improvement shown by online storage companies is the answer for growing security and transfer demands.
E-mail marketing challenge
E-mail marketing is a challenge to be explored in detailed surveys in the coming years. Not so long ago it was undeveloped territory, where the logic of e-mailing was brought along with the custom correspondence and timid attempt of the direct advertisement to flow into the Internet world.
Digital Era Widens New Horizons
The Internet has proven to be the ultimate communication tool. The introduction of the digital camera has only enhanced the Internet ’s capabilities for communicating and correspondence between family, friends, and the business community. Interviews (11):
Cody Christman, Director of Product Engineering, Verio
September 30, 2005
Recently Verio announced that the company expanded IPv6 access.
Harold Miltsch, Vice President of Marketing for Verio
June 24, 2005
An Interview with Harold Miltsch, Vice President of Marketing for Verio.
Terry McGuigan, Product Manager for Connected Services Framework at Microsoft
February 18, 2005
Microsoft recently launched the Connected Services Framework, a new software solution revealed to the public this Monday. The integrated software solution allows telecommunications operators and service providers to deliver converged communications services across multiple networks.
Web Hosting Round Table - Industry Trends 2005
February 09, 2005
Within Yahoo! Small Business - which hosts about one out of eight online stores - my team manages our web hosting product line to deliver an easy-to-use, reliable, scalable product at a great value. I have spent my career in product management, product marketing, and management consulting.
Web Hosting Roundtable - Industry Trends 2005: Guy Yalif, David Chao,Thomas Vollrath, Ivan Vachovsky, Lance Crosby, Curtis Curtis, Jeremy Sabil, Bevan Erickson, Kurt Daniel, Jay Adelson, Manny Medina and Bob Leffler
February 09, 2005
The market adjusted in the years following the boom, and now we see that functionality is still important, but with a focus on reducing the total cost of computing.
David Braun, CEO Templatemonster.com
February 08, 2005
Tell me something about yourself and your position in the company. What were you doing before starting Templatemonster.com? What were the milestones in your life?
Michael Yablonowitz, President and CEO of Uplinkearth
July 28, 2004
My name is Mike Yablonowitz. I'm President and CEO of Uplinkearth. Prior to uplinkearth, I worked in a variety of Telco-related sales positions through the New York and New Jersery area.
Steve Dauber, Vice President of Marketing at Ensim Corporation
July 28, 2004
As VP of Marketing for Ensim, I'm responsible for strategically positioning our products to the market, as well as ensuring that we build the product capabilities our customers need to succeed today and in the future.
John Zdanowski, Vice President, Product management Affinity
July 28, 2004
I was one of the original co-founders of Affinity Internet, Inc. Now I lead Affinity's efforts in strategy, product management and M&A.
Andrew S. Campbell, CEO of BrickHost
In June 2003, CamWeb Enterprises moved into solely offering web hosting and offsite data backup services, and emerged as the re-branded BrickHost.
Mark Lee, V.P. of marketing Dept at ANhosts.com
Name is Mark Lee and I am the V.P. of marketing Dept at ANhosts.com Before
joining ANhosts.com, I was the director of marketing at CBC communications. | 
