Mar 12, 2002 : Yahoo Hikes Cost For Geocities Users
📅 - Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com) announced that it will increase the cost of its Geocities Web hosting service for customers who want enhanced features, as part of efforts to monazite more of its free services.
Last year, the company began adding fees to Geocities, a service that lets people set up personal Websites--once paid for by advertisements. The new fee structures introduced Monday include a Geocities Plus service, featuring extra storage and bandwidth to help host larger files like photos, for $4.95 per month and a one-time set-up fee of $10. Offering more advance publishing tools for experienced Web site builders and small businesses, Yahoo has also introduced new Geocities Advantage service.
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📅 - Internet Domain Names Surpass 180 Million - Verisign Industry Brief of first quarter 2009 sheds light on DNS and domain statistics. VeriSign Inc., a provider of internet infrastructure services, publishes in the first quarter 2009 Domain Name Industry Brief, that the internet now encompasses more than 180 million domain names.The company says that the first quarter of 2009 ended with a total base of nearly 183 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). This represents a 3 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2008 and a 12 percent increase over the same quarter from last year.The company avers that the first quarter is historically strong for registration
📅 - 1and1 Fourth Largest US Web Host - Web hosting company 1&1 Internet (1and1.com) announced on Thursday it has surpassed competitor Yahoo (yahoo.com) to become the fourth largest US web host based on WebHosting.Info's (www.webhosting.info) domain rankings.
1&1 has grown considerably since it launched its US operations about five years ago with over 700,000 US customers to date.
According to WebHosting.Info's research, 1&1 currently has 3.7098 percent of the domain market share with 2,491,508 domains.
In comparison, Yahoo has 3.6072 percent of the market with 2,422,551 domains. WebHosting.Info ranks Wild West Domains as the top US web host, followed by Enom and Network Solutions.
📅 - Carol Bartz Named Yahoo CEO - Filling the void left by co-founder Jerry Yang who stepped down in November, Yahoo (yahoo.com) has named experienced technology executive Carol Bartz chief executive officer, taking up the reigns of the search engine-based empire following a tumultuous year-and-a-half period of strategic repositioning and platform transformation, marred by failed mergers and partnerships, and plummeting stock prices.
"I believe Carol is the ideal person to take Yahoo! forward and I will be honored to be a resource to assist her in any way she finds helpful," Yang said in a statement. "I believe Yahoo's best years are still ahead of it. For the past 14 years, I have poured all of my energies i
📅 - BT Leases DRT Data Center Space - Networked IT services provider BT Global Financial Services has signed a lease with data center operator Digital Realty Trust (digitalrealtytrust.com) to establish a new Digital Realty Trust "Turn-Key Datacenter" in New York to support its global financial community customers' IT infrastructure needs. According to Digital Realty Trust's Thursday announcement, its new Turn-Key Datacenter facility will provide BT a state-of-the-art environment for supporting its mission critical infrastructure."We have had the pleasure of working with BT's Global Financial Services division in the past, and it is a great validation that the company has chosen to work with us onc
📅 - Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com) announced that it will increase the cost of its Geocities Web hosting service for customers who want enhanced features, as part of efforts to monazite more of its free services. 
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