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📅 - SIDN says .nl Domains Hijacked - The official registry for the .nl domain name, SIDN (sidn.nl) announced on Tuesday that it has taken a closer look at the results of its landrush for numerical domain names in February following some alleged irregularities in the process. According to reports on The Register (theregister.co.uk), two Dutch companies, MyAlbum.nl and BliXEM Internet Services, have been put in question of domain hijacking and must return thousands of numeric domain names they acquired during the landrush, an act they attribute to "just being smart." MyAlbum.nl were successful in obtaining almost 2,600 numerical domain names by writing software for 35 different servers that automated
📅 - MaximumASP Opens Chicago Facility - Web hosting provider MaximumASP (maximumasp.com👉 Total Reviews: 4 🙌 Average Rating: 5 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 2 👎 Bad Reviews: 2 👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Wednesday it has opened its new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The new data center will provide a range of IT infrastructure services, including off-site disaster recovery for the existing Louisville, Kentucky location, customer colocation services, managed private customer networks and managed security services designed to meet the increasing needs of enterprise IT customers.The facility will also provide SAN-to-SAN data replication via a private connection, enabling customers to restore backup data in two locations, both of which offer rapid-restore capabilities. The design and implementa
📅 - IBM, Schools Launch Cloud Initiative - IBM (ibm.com) announced says it will collaborate with two of America's leading academic institutions on an initiative to develop new autonomic technology for cloud computing, the company announced Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia. Together with The Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University, IBM is initiating this project focused on self-managing features for virtualized data centers in a cloud computing environment. This new project includes the creation of a prototype computing cloud that links data centers from the two institutions, called the Critical Enterprise Cloud Computing Services facility. IBM says the effor
📅 - NetSol Explains Anti-Koran Site Ban - Web hosting provider Network Solutions (networksolutions.com👉 Total Reviews: 35 🙌 Average Rating: 1.6 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 3 👎 Bad Reviews: 32 👈 Official Responses: 0) says it was just following standard protocol earlier this week by taking down the website promoting a Dutch politician's film that is said to criticize the Koran. "There has been a lot of dialogue going on about censorship and free speech," writes Susan Wade, Network Solutions spokesperson Susan Wade in an email interview with the WHIR. "We are by no means taking any action to limit freedom of speech or to preemptively censor content. Our company also does not proactively police the content of our customers' sites. If a complaint is received, however, we do conduct a review to determine whether the site violates
📅 - VeriSign Raises .com and .net Fees - Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign (verisign.com) announced on Friday it will increase the registration fees for both .com and .net domains by $0.40 starting October 1. The company says that the price hikes are allowed under its agreement with ICANN (icann.org), which stipulates that Verisign can raise registration fees for .com domain in four of the six years between 2006 and 2012.The .com domain will now be priced at $6.86, while a .net domain will cost $4.23. These fees are part of the overall cost to register a domain, says the company. And while different domain registrars have varying fee structures, they will most likely pass along these fe
📅 - IBM Builds Telecom Egypt Facility - IBM (ibm.com) announced on Friday that it has completed construction of a data center for Egypt-based telecommunications provider Telecom Egypt (telecomegypt.com). Telecom Egypt says it partnered with IBM in 2007 to design and build what it hoped would be the most sophisticated and energy-efficient data center in Egypt. In order to manage the increased demand on its telecommunications network, Telecom Egypt says it needed a new state-of-the-art data center capable of housing its current IT solutions, yet flexible enough to support future growth. "Telecom Egypt was convinced that IBM was the best choice because of IBM's standards and methodologies and t