Daily Archives: August 9, 2010

eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesale registrar and the largest reseller of VeriSign SSL Certificates, returns to HostingCon 2010 as a Gold Sponsor where today the company announced the launch of the VeriSign Trust Seal to its expansive security product offering catalog.

The VeriSign Trust Seal insignia will signal to visitors of the web site that the publisher of the site has passed a three point verification process by VeriSign, the company already trusted by nearly 90 percent of the largest internet retailers to secure their customer transactions. In addition to the verification, VeriSign Trust Seal provides a daily web site malware scan and alerts the publisher immediately if it detects malware on a given site. VeriSign trusted sites benefit from the added visibility of VeriSign® Seal-in-Search™, which displays the VeriSign seal next to search result links from popular search engines on enabled browsers. For web sites that do not require an SSL certificate, the VeriSign Trust Seal presents an alternative that assures visitors of the site’s safety.

“At eNom, we know that security and trust is as important an ingredient to a successful web site as the domain name itself. The VeriSign Trust Seal service is a proven, reliable and simple method for establishing that trust and we’re proud that VeriSign has chosen to partner with us to introduce this new product to the marketplace; especially during HostingCon,” said Chris Sheridan, vice president of Sales for eNom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Demand Media.

“We are pleased to expand our relationship with eNom with their launch of the VeriSign Trust Seal,” said Fran Rosch, senior vice president, Authentication Products & Strategy at VeriSign. “As a platinum partner, we look forward to continuing to work with eNom as they provide their resellers with the trust and security products they desire on their web sites.”

For more information on the VeriSign Trust Seal, please visit eNom.com.

About Demand Media

Demand Media, Inc. is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Through a portfolio of vertical web properties reaching more than 80 million monthly visitors, a global network of digital partners, and a breakthrough content studio, Demand Media publishes what the world wants to know and share. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. For more information about Demand Media, visit http://www.demandmedia.com

About VeriSign

VeriSign, Inc. is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world engage in communications and commerce with confidence. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com

Host Color web hosting provider, announced a promotional offer on Extended Validation (EV) Green Bar SSL certificates. Host Color says that it gives site owners who purchase single-domain Essential SSL certificate, a free upgrade to Comodo Green Bar EV SSL

“Host Color is a trusted Comodo Partner and we appreciate a lot the opportunity to offer our customers a free upgrade to EV SSL. Thanks to Comodo they can use “Green Bar”, a feature exclusive to EV SSL, to reassure website visitors that they browse and transmit information through a verified and secured Internet site,” says Martin Andreev, VP of Operations of Host Color.

It articulates that it now provides its customers who need to get Green Bar Extended Validation (EV) SSL with the opportunity to get an EV SSL and to save $320/year. Now anyone who signs up for the standard single-domain “Essential SSL” digital certificate, priced at $39/year can get a free upgrade to EV SSL. The company partners with Comodo, a provider of digital security products to provide its website hosting customers with high quality SSL certificates.

The company explains that Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL) certificate, also popular as “Green Bar”, is the highest assurance digital certificate available online. It offers 2048-bit, next generation encryption and is compatible with 99.3% of web browsers, including all Mozilla, Internet Explorer and Safari versions. The regular price of Green Bar SSL is $359/year, but now its customers can purchase “Essential SSL” for $39/year and to request a free upgrade to EV SSL.

According to it, after a purchase of an “Essential SSL” certificate, its customer will be given a free update to Extended Validation Green Bar (EV) SSL. The only thing the SSL owner should do is to login to the new account. The free upgrade to Extended Validation certificate works for 1 and 2 year subscription periods. Any order for “Essential SSL” certificate will be valid and the company’s customers can use this type of SSL certificate if for any reason they cannot qualify to get issued an Extended Validation “Green Bar” SSL.

XPC Web Hosting is pleased to announce that we have launched a green enterprise hosting initiative. Over the past month we have successfully moved our entire hosting operation into the RackForce Cloud hosting system located in the GigaCenter green data center in Kelowna, British Columbia.

“As a business grade web hosting company in Vancouver we are proud that our operations are now located in the RackForce GigaCenter and running off their enterprise cloud solution.” says Shone Anstey VP operations for XPC Web Hosting. “In addition our clients have expressed their approval and excitement to have their websites at such an eco friendly environment.”

“XPC Web Hosting has been with RackForce for almost 2 years now. They are a fast growing web hosting company and recently needed to add more powerful infrastructure to meet their growing needs.” Brian Fry, RackForce Vice President – Sales and Marketing “By migrating their operations to the RackForce enterprise cloud infrastructure they have positioned themselves for rapid growth.”

Datacenters are one of the largest consumers of electrical energy in North America and thus one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Ensuring that they are as environmentally responsible as possible has become critical due to both the rising cost of energy and the onset of global climate change. There are a lot of factors that contribute to a green datacenter, among those power source and power consumption are the two biggest.

Datacenters in many areas are powered by coal-fired or natural gas electrical generation plants. These datacenters emit tremendous amounts of CO2 as a bi-product of their power consumption.

Tapping into British Columbia’s abundant supply of clean hydroelectric power, the RackForce GigaCenter has a carbon footprint which is 50 times smaller than the average coal-powered North American datacenter.

In addition by locating the data center in the Okanagan’s temperate climate, it uses new technology to take advantage of cool outside temperatures to regulate the temperature inside the data center. In addition, design choices like cold aisle containment and modular construction seriously reduce power use. Finally, technologies like virtualization, unified fabric network, and cloud computing improve IT efficiency.

About XPC Web Hosting
XPC Web Hosting is located in Vancouver Canada, and specializes in business and ecommerce hosting with expertise in Magento shopping carts and WordPress websites. We have been in the hosting industry since 2004. Additional information can be found at www.xpcwebhosting.com