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Welcome to our blog. If you want to read about what’s happening in the web hosting industry (and the online world in general) this is the place for you. Occasionally we’ll even just post a fun video we found on Youtube. Please don’t be afraid to leave a comment. We love discussions.
  • new gtld signing
    2012-01-24

    Smooth Start for New gTLD Program

    ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced last week that the application system for the new gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains) of the Internet began on January 19th and is proceedi...
  • 2012-01-19

    SOPA Stalls, But Online Experts Advise Caution

    Amid Internet site blackouts and public outcries, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been placed on hold in the Senate while sponsors regroup and reconsider their position on this controversial topic. Along w...
  • 2012-01-18

    Security Breach for Zappos Customers

    Over the weekend, Zappos, the online store famous for its vast array of shoes for sale, announced that personal confidential information, including such items as email addresses, partial credit card numbers and ...
    Security Breach Zappos
  • sopa pipa open
    2012-01-12

    SOPA, PIPA and OPEN

    The United States Congress, returning from its holiday recess this month, will be resuming their consideration of three bills whose passage or rejection will have enormous effects on the ...
  • phising mistake
    2012-01-11

    Sites Mistakenly Given Phishing Label

    The Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet usually runs without any hiccups, but a company that offers itself as an alternative DNS resource caused a severe problem last week for several hundred thousand web s...
  • 2012-01-04

    Phishing Attack Based on SSL

    An EV-SSL or Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer certificate was used in December to give a greater aura of legitimacy for a phishing hack-attack against PayPal and its customers. A sub-directory of the web...
    phising attack
  • ssl tsl
    2011-12-20

    Industry Standards for SSL and TLS

    Last week, the CA/Browser Forum, an international consortium of software firms and CAs (Certificate Authorities), released a set of industry standards for issuing SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TSL (Transport La...
  • 2011-12-16

    Fed Standards for the Cloud

    Last week, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), a new IT security assessment and monitoring program, was launched by the Federal CIO (Chief Information officer) in a memo to all Feder...
  • 2011-12-13

    Security Concerns Converging in 2012

    As always, with the end of the old year and the start of a new one, we look at what has occurred over the past year to get a idea of what will happen in the upcoming year. Security threats for web host providers...
    security concerns
  • mcdonalds branding
    2011-12-08

    DOT-Brands Coming Sooner than You Think

    In about five weeks, the application process begins for the new DOT-Brand generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will begin accepting applications...

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