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Aug, 2001 : Yahoo to Offer Advanced Web Hosting Services
📅 - In its continuing quest to increase profitability and diversify its business model which is largely based on ad revenues, Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com) will introduce today two Web hosting services offering advanced site building and storage features, for a monthly fee.
The new services will be offered on GeoCities(geocities.com), the popular Web site-building servicethat acquired by Yahoo 1999. Although GeoCities hasenjoyed popularity as a place to host amateur Websites at no cost, Yahoo says the new features willenable them to build more polished,professional-looking sites. One of the services, called GeoCities Pro, willprovide a personalized Web address, five emailaccounts, 25 megabytes of storage as well as 10 gigsof data transfer capacity, for a monthly fee of $8.95,plus a one-time $15 setup fee. The other service, dubbed GeoCities Webmaster, willoffer more advanced features and additional storagecapacity, for $11.95 a month and the $15 setup fee. Yahoo said it is offering the new services in responseto customer feedback. Unlike the existing free sites,the new GeoCities sites will not be supported byadvertising.
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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
📅 - In its continuing quest to increase profitability and diversify its business model which is largely based on ad revenues, Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com) will introduce today two Web hosting services offering advanced site building and storage features, for a monthly fee.
Reads: 1389 | Category: General | Source: TheWHIR : Web Host Industry Reviews