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Nominating Committee Announces Nominees to Be Seated at Montréal Meeting - 📅 Jun 16, 2003 - Marina del Rey, California, USA (16 June 2003) – After an intense

period of outreach, consultation, recruitment, and evaluation, the Nominating

Committee (NomCom) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and

Numbers (ICANN) announced today its final and unanimous selection of three

"slates" of Nominees for three of ICANN's leadership bodies:

the Board of Directors, the Council of the Generic Names ...

Whois Data Reminder Policy Posted - 📅 Jun 16, 2003 - Today, ICANN posted the Whois Data Reminder
Policy (WDRP). This policy, which was developed
as a consensus policy by ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization
and adopted
by the ICANN Board on 27 March ...

Hostway Buys NetNation in $10M Deal - 📅 Jun 14, 2003 - Vancouver-based Web hosting firm NetNation Communications (netnation.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 3
👈 Official Responses: 0) said late yesterday it
planned to merge with Hostway (hostway.com 👉 Total Reviews: 19
🙌 Average Rating: 2.5 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 3
👎 Bad Reviews: 16
👈 Official Responses: 0) in a cash deal valued at $10
million.



Chicago-based Hostway has been aggressively expanding its operations over
the past three years. The company has operations in the United States,
United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Asia and Australia while operating data
centers in Chicago, London and Seoul, Korea. It was not immediately clear ...

Hostway Buys NetNation in $10M Deal - 📅 Jun 14, 2003 - Vancouver-based Web hosting firm NetNation Communications (netnation.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 3
👈 Official Responses: 0) said late yesterday it
planned to merge with Hostway (hostway.com 👉 Total Reviews: 19
🙌 Average Rating: 2.5 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 3
👎 Bad Reviews: 16
👈 Official Responses: 0) in a cash deal valued at $10
million.



Chicago-based Hostway has been aggressively expanding its operations over
the past three years. The company has operations in the United States,
United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Asia and Australia while operating data
centers in Chicago, London and Seoul, Korea. It was not immediately clear ...

Terremark NAP Reaches 100 Customer Level - 📅 Jun 13, 2003 - Carrier-neutral Tier-1 NAP operator Terremark Worldwide Inc (terremark.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 3
👈 Official Responses: 0). said today its NAP of the Americas had exceeded the 100 customer mark.



Terremark presently has 135 customers overall, including 33 customers in its NAP in Brazil.

The company said that over the last two months, it has signed contracts with 12 new customers and over twenty existing clients for additional services. Among the new contracts are agreements with Digitel Networks, Dominion ...

XO Appoints Counsel, Boosts Global Crossing Bid - 📅 Jun 13, 2003 - XO Communications, Inc. (xo.com 👉 Total Reviews: 5
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 5
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced yesterday it has appointed Lee Weiner as senior vice president and general counsel. Weiner will be entrusted with overseeing all the company's legal affairs.



"We welcome Lee as a member of our executive team," said Carl Grivner, XO Chief Executive Officer. "His experience in the legal field and in the telecommunications industry will be a tremendous asset to XO and help us to succeed in this competitive industry."

Prior to ...

Sex.Com Close to Resolving Domain Dispute - 📅 Jun 13, 2003 - Sex.com said Thursday that it has taken a major step in its legal battle over the Sex.Com domain name after the U.S. Supreme Court denied the latest appeal made by Stephen Michael Cohen.



The legal battle over the Sex.Com domain name dates back to 1995 when Cohen sent a forged letter to VeriSign, formerly Network Solutions, Inc., requesting the transfer of the Sex.Com domain name from its owner, Gary Kremen. Cohen was ordered to pay a $65 million judgement for fraudently ...

NetNation Announces Reverse Stock Split - 📅 Jun 13, 2003 - Vancouver-based Web hosting firm NetNation Communications (netnation.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 3
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced today that its stockholders approved a one for two and one-half (1:2.5) reverse stock split, effective today.



The split is aimed at regain compliance with the Nasdaq's continued listing requirements. Earlier this year, the company was told its stock might be de-listed for falling below the exchange's minimum $1.00 bid price per share. A subsequent decision by the exchange's Listing ...

MSPAlliance Expands Member Services - 📅 Jun 13, 2003 - The MSPAlliance (mspalliance.com) said yesterday it would partner with THINKstrategies, an IT management services and strategies firm, to expand its member services portfolio.



Under the new initiative, the two firms will conduct a series of Web-based industry surveys on "key issues of concern to IT decision-makers," according to the MSPAlliance. Topics to be focused upon include drivers for turning to MSPs, success factors for working with MSPs, future buying intentions and ...

Globix Unveils Promotion for Stranded Clients - 📅 Jun 13, 2003 - Globix Corporation (globix.com) yesterday announced a program aimed at easing the transition of customer equipment and accounts from distressed Web hosting companies into its own data centers.



The new program, titled Right-Move, "provides customers with a solution aimed at turning a crisis into an opportunity," the company said.

Globix said the program included logistics services, financial incentives including upfront credits and waived install fees, access to a ...