Leading domain registrar, LCN.com, is now taking live registrations for the new .CO domain name. In what is billed as the most important domain launch of the past 25 years, the .CO domain is now available to the general public. Domain speculators can now perform live searches on LCN.com to identify what domains are available to register immediately. Mark Boost, Managing Director, LCN.com, said: “The .CO has the potential to become the biggest global domain since the 1985 launch of ... Read the full story

International managed hosting provider (http://www.peer1hosting.co.uk/hosting), PEER 1 Hosting, today announced its relationship with Microsoft Corp to offer customers fully featured, enterprise-level email services. In addition to the PEER 1 hosting services, this will deliver a cost-effective, immediate and hassle-free way of managing SMB customer mail environments. PEER 1’s hosted Microsoft Exchange solution is scalable, secure and full-featured, giving users the ability to ... Read the full story

Growing shared and reseller hosting provider Devoted Hosting has today announced the launch of its new affiliate program. In a bid to hasten its already quick growth since opening in early 2009, Devoted Hosting has announced the structure of its new program which rewards its affiliates by paying recurring commission. On Saturday, the owner of Devoted Hosting Tristan Perry said the following about their new affiliate system: “We are proud to announce the launch of our affiliate ... Read the full story

TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States’ leading provider of carrier-neutral data centers, international Internet exchanges, and managed IT services, announces today, the debut of IX Anywhere service, offering up to 1Gbps global Ethernet transport solutions to the world’s largest international Internet eXchange Points (IXPs). To initiate service, companies with network equipment housed in any of TELEHOUSE’s 14 Global Interlink (low-latency, Layer 2 ... Read the full story

Datarealm Internet Services, Inc., an industry leader in web hosting services, announced this week that it has created an all new line of Xen-based virtual private servers (www.virtual-dedicated.net) that can be scaled, over time, to grow with its customers. No longer is there a need to migrate data between accounts with growth because other, more expensive cloud-hosting services’ resources can simply be added to clients’ accounts as needed. A Datarealm VPS is truly a virtual ... Read the full story

Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX) today announced the launch of OpenStack™, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings to the OpenStack project. The project will also incorporate technology that powers the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. Rackspace and NASA ... Read the full story

HostGee.com announced today that it is offering service provider licensing (SPLA) for its software storage solution for cloud hosting environments. HostGee’’s Selio 2010 adds centralized storage management, improved availability, and dynamic scalability to hosted Windows Cloud computing environments, and integrates easily with Windows Server Hyper-V virtualization and System Center Management components. HostGee software can be used with any industry standard SAN ... Read the full story

Those who reserved their desired .CO domains on time at a registrar, now have the best chance for a successful delegation on July 20. The “first come, first served” principle applies to the pre-registration at a registrar same as to the registry’s domain name delegation. However, even shortly before the start of GA, one still has the chance to gain the desired domain name through a pre-application. Regardless of the time of pre-registration the effective capability of the registrar ... Read the full story

Low Cost Web Hosting Provider, Southeast Media, offers the next generation of web hosting powered by grid technology. This robust web hosting provides for maximum reliability and performance to handle more traffic at a low cost. Today, most people visit a retailer’s website day-and-night to research products and pricing prior to shopping in the physical store. Therefore, uninterrupted service is necessary. “Web sites frequently use high quality videos and large graphic files to ... Read the full story

Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that UK2 Group, a leading global web hosting organization, has deployed CloudLinux on all of its shared hosting servers. UK2Group is one of the largest hosting providers in the European and US markets with an extensive customer base across multiple brands. After three months of testing UK2 Group chose CloudLinux to deliver increases stability, reliability and a ... Read the full story

Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, has announced that the new South Africa Tourism website is being hosted by Rackspace Hosting. “As part of the successful 2010 Soccer World Cup event, the SA Tourism site is considered a critical component of its success” said SA Tourism e-Marketing Manager William Price, “The number of site visitors sky-rocketed following the reconstruction of our new site rising to a total of more than ... Read the full story

NaviSite, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-enabled enterprise hosting and application management services, announced today that SaaS-expert William Toll will moderate a panel titled “Enabling ISVs to Go SaaS with Hosted Infrastructure as Service Solutions” at HostingCon 2010. HostingCon 2010 is being held from July 19-21, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Who: William Toll, NaviSite What: Enabling ISVs to Go SaaS with Hosted Infrastructure as Service Solutions When: Tuesday, July 20, ... Read the full story

Award-winning dedicated server and web hosting company Superb Internet added the top-drawer Parallels Small Business Panel to its product line today. Parallels, a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software, developed the control panel specifically with small-to-medium businesses in mind—extremely cost-effective with exceptional ease of use, the panel streamlines operations and offers one-stop access to programs and applications. “Parallels has always been a pioneer in ... Read the full story

The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Chairman and CEO Douglas J. Erwin will be a featured speaker on two conference panels at HostingCon 2010, which takes place July 19-21 in Austin, Texas. Web Hosting Evangelist Kevin Hazard will also participate in a panel on social media. Erwin’s first appearance will be at the conference track titled, “Adding Value to Your Business With Financial and Operating Metrics,” scheduled for Monday, July 19, at 9 a.m. CDT. Erwin ... Read the full story

Sponsorship to raise awareness of DDoS protection solutions to prevent DDoS attacks. Black Lotus, a leading distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services company, announced today its platinum level sponsorship at HostingCon 2010, the hosting industry’s sixth annual convention. HostingCon 2010 will take place July 19-21 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX. Black Lotus offers specialized website hosting with DDoS services, including DDos protected hosting and DDoS ... Read the full story