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Web Hosting :: the right choice for you?

2010-11-26T01:08:00.000-08:00

Lockergnome | March 09, 2008 - There are a million places out there to buy your web hosting from. How do you know which is the right choice for you? What things should you keep in mind when choosing? These tips sent in by a community member should help ease your mind a bit.

Domain Name :: How to Buy 1.

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what are domain names? How do you register one?

2010 :: Domain Registries in Malaysia

2010-11-26T00:35:00.000-08:00

Total Domains in Malaysia : 127,010

Total Domains in Malaysia : 127,010

Rank	TLD	Total Domains	Market Share	Net Gain/Loss
1	COM	105,020	82.6864 %	744
2	NET	11,179	8.8017 %	55
3	ORG	5,393	4.2461 %	28
4	INFO	2,669	2.1014 %	16
5	BIZ	2,543	2.0022 %	21

Courtesy :: webhosting.info

2010 : Global Domain Registry Statistics:

2010-11-26T00:22:00.000-08:00

The table below shows a brief statistical comparison of the COM, NET, ORG, INFO and BIZ registries; showcasing their respective Total Domains and Market Share stats along with their previous weeks New Domains, Deleted Domains, Transferred domains and Net Gain/Loss figures.

TLD	New	Deleted	Net Gain/Loss	Market Share	Total Domains
COM	600,372	431,688	168,684	74.4519%	88,411,240
NET	84,930	63,299	21,631	11.1028%	13,184,552
ORG	51,960	36,512	15,448	7.1809%	8,527,259
INFO	90,311	62,422	27,889	5.564%	6,607,180
BIZ	12,018	11,618	400	1.7004%	2,019,167

TOTAL	839,591	605,539	234,052	100%	118,749,398

Note: These statistics are updated on a weekly basis.
Last updated: Monday, 22nd November 2010.

Market Share Distribution of TLD's

courtesy :: webhosting.info

.CO Domain Information

2010-05-14T12:46:00.000-07:00

The registration rules for .CO domains were significantly relaxed at the end of 2009. Now virtually anyone in the world can apply for .CO domain names without local presence in Columbia.

Widely accepted as the short term for 'company', 'corporation', .CO represents a unique opportunity on internet for businesses and individuals. Simply put, .CO is global, recognizable and memorable, and therefore highly desirable in this competitive business environment.

.CO launch starts from 1 April, involving a multi-phase plan to ensure for the stable and orderly distribution of domains. The Launch has three core stages:

Sunrise April 1 - June 10:
In Sunrise phase,Between April 1 and June 10, 2010 any trademark in the world - registered and in full force and effect on or before July 30, 2008 - may apply for a .CO domain. These trademarks need to be registered in a trademark office or registry that corresponds to a state or entity described in the WIPO Standard ST.3 code. This allows companies to apply for their desired domain or domains and secure their trademarks. At the end of the phase, all names that have only one application are immediately allotted and registered for one year. Multiple applications made under the same name or any interest in matching domains will go to auction. Domain name should match Trademark name.
Landrush June 21 - July 13:
Landrush takes place from the end of June through mid-July, and will be open to anyone interested in registering domain names of high commercial value. Any interest in matching domains will go to auction.
General Availability July 20:
Once the Global Sunrise and Landrush processes are complete, .CO domains will become available to anyone in the world. Except where otherwise reserved by the .CO Registry or earmarked for premium auctions, .CO domains will be available to the public based on the chronological order of registrations on a first come, first served basis.

For more information on .CO registration phases and Launch FAQ, please refer to .CO Launch Guideline. Europe Registry is pleased to participate in all these phases and is accepting pre-registrations.

.CO Registration Terms and Price

Phase	Term	Registration Price	Application Fee*
Sunrise	1 year	EUR 29	EUR 229
Landrush	1 year	EUR 229	EUR 15
General	1 year	EUR 29	N/A

* There are 2 fee components in each Sunrise and Landrush application, the Application Fee and the Registration Fee.

1.	The Application Fee is for services that will be provided by Europe Registry to cover costs in applying for the registration and is NON-REFUNDABLE regardless of the outcome of the application.
2.	The Registration Fee of that application (but not the non-refundable Application Fee) can be applied to a future .co registration in the event that an application is not successful.

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Best 10 Web Hosting Sites

2009-11-11T23:00:00.000-08:00

FindMyHosting.com provides a Free review guide of the best web hosting providers online. Each web host is hand picked, tested and given an in-depth review insuring the webmaster the best overall hosting experience. The web hosting sites which were rated highest in the industry are listed below.

Ranking based on reliability, affordability, uptime, features, eaze-of-use and overall support.

10 Vital Tips for Choosing the Right Web Hosting Company

2008-12-16T22:17:00.000-08:00

By Amy Armitage (c) 2008

The Web hosting firm you choose can make or break your small business. Good ones can run things smoothly, are easy to reach, and fix problems efficiently. But bad ones can have more problems than they are worth, be unreachable at critical times, and bring your business to a screeching halt. Finding a good one is crucial to your success.

Here are some tried and true ideas for how to select a host that will save you money, avoid technical snafus, and build your online platform for the future.

1. Choose a Service that Primarily Does Hosting

Although it might be tempting to sign-up with a firm that provides an umbrella of services in addition to website hosting, a good rule of thumb is that if a company overly-diversifies its services, it won't deliver top quality in any of them (e.g. tech support, updates, maintenance, etc.)

2. Choose a Host with a Great Record for Online Security

Most secure hosts will provide SSL Certificates to guarantee your security. Without an SSL Certificate on your site, visitors may come and go without identifying themselves, and this could put your site at risk. Make sure your host implements best practices when it comes to maintaining security architecture, updating security software, and responding effectively to breaches if and when they do occur.

3.Excellent Technical and Customer Service Support via Phone

Does the host provide phone support around the clock? Or can you only email for help during non-business hours? You definitely want the option to call a staffer. Studies show that over-the-phone tech and customer support systems are vastly more efficient than e-mail support centers, on average.

4. Solid Add-On Services

A number of great web hosting companies provide little extras to make sites more effective and user-friendly. These can include image upload galleries, blogs, control panels, order forms, support scripts, databases, and embedded video features. When evaluating various firms, examine sample sites and note what value add-ons you like and what value add-ons you feel are missing in each sample.

5. Don't Rely on Numbers Alone to Make the Decision

Many hosts promise uptime approaching 100%. But there's no way of verifying that kind of claim. If your website goes down, for instance, the company can easily explain it away as a statistically insignificant outlier. Similarly, a potential host may brag about oodles of bandwidth and space on servers, but if your online small-business needs are modest, these numbers shouldn't be your incentive. Finally, be wary of online rating systems. These figures can be jiggered and rejiggered to make a web host look better (or worse) than it actually is.

6. The Right Price for Your Needs

Sure, you can find a service for practically nothing. But there is no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to web hosting. If you're paying a dirt-cheap rate, chances are that the host is watering down services in some respect. Perhaps the host offers minimal security protections or charges clients "pay per play" for technical support. Or maybe the site charges a sky-high maintenance fee or other monthly fee. The point is, you need to read the fine print and to price-compare before making a decision.

7. Flexible Features and Enough Elbow-Room

You have no idea how your online platform might evolve. That's why you need a hosting company that boasts flexible features, supports many different languages, offers linux and Windows options, and supports an array of scripts (PHP, Pearl, Java, etc.) A good rule of thumb for determining space is to "buy big". In other words, even if you don't have tens of thousands of files to upload and store, leave yourself some wiggle room to anticipate future growth.

8. An Easy-To-Use and Safe Shopping Cart

According to numerous estimates, U.S. and U.K. consumers will be spending nearly $150 billion per year online by the year 2010. Your site's e-commerce options should be simple, safe, battle-tested, and easy-to-use.

9. Protection Against Spam, Viruses, Trojan Horses, and the Like

Most creditable web hosting sites provide solid e-mail protection. Make sure to check for compatibility, however. For instance, if you use Microsoft Outlook, make sure that the host has the tools and services to shield your Outlook e-mail effectively -- without blocking key notifications from clients or suppliers.

10.Important Questions to Consider:

Does the host provide good references and testimonials?

Does the company employ best-of-breed firewalls and routers?

Has anyone filed complaints against the company through the Better Business Bureau or other organization?

What services do small businesses similar to yours use for web hosting?

Can the company provide any statistics to back up claims regarding reliability and technical support?

Can you use the host for a trial period before paying full price?

How expensive is it to upgrade or downgrade plans?

How do blogs and customer forums rate your candidate hosting services?

About The Author
Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They provide a wide-range of services from linux Virtual Private Servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

GLOBAL DOMAINS NAME STATISTICS

2008-12-16T06:14:00.000-08:00

The following chart represents current statistics for many of the worlds most popular domains.

Updated May 2008.

Domain	Amount Registered	Country
.com	76.063.148	Global Generic
.de	12.024.088	Germany
.net	11.361.663	Global Generic
.cn	11.439.479	China
.uk	6.826.199	United Kingdom
.org	6.761.801	Global Generic
.info	5.041.001	Global Generic
.eu	2.884.199	European Union
.nl	2.702.754	Netherlands
.biz	1.968.075	Global Generic
.it	1.526.208	Italy
.us	1.411.729	United States
.br	1.300.184	Brazil
.ch	1.119.012	Switzerland
.ru	1.243.362	Russia
.au	1.117.393	Australia
.jp	1.009.602	Japan
.fr	1.125.195	France
.ca	1.009.602	Canada
.kr	902.051	Korea
.dk	904.086	Denmark
.es	941.585	Spain
.mobi	898.916	Global Generic
.pl	993.308	Poland
.be	781.997	Belgium
.at	751.867	Austria
.se	725.984	Sweden
.cz	417.376	Czech
.no	383.469	Norway
.nz	328.951	New Zealand
.mx	252.750	Mexico
.pt	211.259	Portugal
.fi	177.835	Finland
.hk	160.336	Hong Kong
.tr	156.358	Turkey
.sk	154.251	Slovakia
.ie	100.997	Ireland
.lt	76.106	Lithuania

Cybersquatting Increasing

2008-03-30T13:25:00.000-07:00

By Mike Sachoff - Fri, 03/28/2008 - 11:25am.

Complaints reach record level

Complaints of "cybersquatting" where a person sets up a site using a trademarked name and profits by selling the name to the owner reached a record level last year according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Cybersquatter

The U.N. agency based in Geneva, received 2,156 complaints alleging abusive registration trademarks on the Internet representing an 18 percent increase over 2006 and a 48 percent increase over 2005.

"These increases confirm that 'cybersquatting' remains a significant issue for rights holders," said Mr. Francis Gurry, WIPO Deputy Director General, who oversees WIPO's dispute resolution work, noting that a number of developments in the DNS are also cause for concern from the perspective of intellectual property holders, as well as Internet users generally.

The majority of complaints came from pharmaceuticals, banking, and Internet, retail and entertainment industries. Pharmaceutical makers remained the top filers due to "numerous permutations of protected names registered for web sites offering or linking to online sales of medications and drugs," WIPO said.

WIPO parties settled a quarter of all cases without a panel decision. Of the remainder, 85 percent of the panel decisions ordered the transfer of the domain names in question to the complainant and 15 percent of the complaints were denied, leaving the names in the possession of the registration holder.

Most of the complaints came from the U.S., France and Britain, while respondents were mainly in China, Britain and the U.S.

Dell Buys EqualLogic

2007-11-07T00:23:00.000-08:00

Dell (DELL - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) agreed to buy EqualLogic, a maker of advanced storage-area network systems, for $1.4 billion in cash.

The deal will give Dell a presence in so-called iSCSI storage technology, which the PC giant said is the fastest-growing part of the storage business.

iSCSI allows for commands and storage traffic to occur over existing Internet protocol networks, leading to lower costs for multiple hardware and easier maintenance.

This past summer, Nashua, N.H.-based EqualLogic filed to go public following the hugely successful initial public offering of VMware (VMW - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), which is also a player in the "virtualization" segment. EqualLogic hadn't set a date for its IPO.

The EqualLogic purchase is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Dell's fiscal year, which ends in early February, or early in the fiscal first quarter. Dell expects the deal to cut earnings by a total of 2 cents to 5 cents a share for fiscal 2009 and 2010.

AP Is Dead ... Killed By Blogs & Aggregation

2007-11-03T17:17:00.001-07:00

Rich Ord | CEO of iEntry, Inc.

Old media is epitomized by no news source more than the Associated Press. Literally thousands of journalists are employed around the world to bring current event coverage to readers of thousands of newspapers and their online sites.

In the pre-Internet days the AP had little competition beyond a few other news syndicators like Reuters and UPI. The AP's world has now changed forever with the advent of blogs and news

aggregation sites.

Blogs are the new "AP" journalists and aggregation services which started with NewsLinx.com in 1996 (founded by me!) and which now include Google News, Topix, Techmeme, WebProWire and the new Blogrunner have made the AP much less relevant. There are now tens of thousands of bloggers around the world providing coverage and analysis of current events too! It comes down to why pay when you can get the news for free.

The AP is scrambling to remain needed in this fast paced up to the second blog news world. As reported and analyzed by WebProNews, the AP is suing Moreover for of all things... linking to AP stories. Does the AP not realize that winning this suit would result in less readers of their stories? The old news order is dead, the AP will have to adapt or die.

President and CEO Tom Curley does seem to realize that something has to change. In a speech yesterday Curley remarked:

"We -- the news industry -- have come to that fork in the road. We must take bold, decisive steps to secure the audiences and funding to support journalism's essential role in both our economy and democracy, or find ourselves on an ugly path to obscurity."

Curley goes on to say that "we must understand and embrace the new ways people are consuming content".

Right .... like blogs and news aggregation and linking! Does the AP really get it? I personally don't think so. Tom Curley's entire speech on how news is changing does not even mention blogs or news aggregation. He also seemingly references his linking lawsuit when telling the audience

" We have the power to control how our content flows on the Web. We must use that power if we're to continue to be financially secure and independent enough to speak truth to power."

The Associated Press model of news is dead ... dead as can be. It is a business model that pays reporters to travel and write stories and then syndicate those stories to traditional news organizations. This model cannot compete with bloggers who write for free and often live where the news is. Additionally these bloggers are often experts, not just reporters looking in. News is now being reported by the news makers themselves who blog about it and then analyzed by hundreds of experts who themselves blog.

Aggregations sites have made the need for news syndicators like the AP obsolete. Bloggers themselves, by linking to related stories have also become content syndicators.

The AP's relevance has disappeared. The AP's business model has evaporated. The AP is dead, killed by blogs and news aggregation.

Mozilla's Devilish Deal With Google
David A. Utter | Staff Writer

Two aspects of Mozilla's close ties with Google over development of the Firefox browser have Chris Soghoian concerned about a conflict of interest in play.

People who adopt Firefox as a replacement for Microsoft's Internet Explorer think they are turning aside a monopolist in favor of a more secure and open browsing alternative. It may not be as open as we think.

I missed a little bit of semantic nuance back in May, when Mozilla's Asa Dotzler commented on my speculation that Mozilla could be pressured via Google by a company like Verizon. As Asa
commented, and I've emphasized in bold:

"Can Google (or any one, for that matter) effectively pressure Mozilla to change course on a Mozilla Labs project that they're not directly involved with? Absolutely not."

Now look at the context Soghoian brings to the Mozilla and Google topic, and how Dotzler's choice of words appear to fit five months later.

"The close relationship between Google and Mozilla leads to a number of serious conflicts of interest. The end result is that users' online privacy and security take a backseat to the protection of Google's revenue streams," Soghoian wrote at CNet.

One conflict of interest comes in the form of ad blocking, the other in phishing toolbars. Soghoian wondered why Firefox's developers haven't integrated two of the most popular add-ons for
the browser, AdBlock Plus (and the Filterset G Updater), and Customize Google.

"Even if Mozilla were contractually free to include anti-Google- tracking features, it would not be a wise move, business-wise. After all, it is not too smart to anger the company that provides
more than 85 percent of your financing," said Soghoian.

His phishing assessment shows an even greater concern for Firefox users. A documented flaw in gmodules.com, as found by well-known security researcher RSnake, has been dismissed by Google as a feature, not a bug.

It's funny when Jimmy Neutron calls his robotic dog Goddard's ability to explode a feature instead of a bug. On the Internet, the joke isn't quite as laugh-inducing.

Soghoian charged, based on RSnake's experience and findings, that no anti-phishing product will enter the market with a Google domain on a blacklist. Google domains won't be placed
in the blacklist it maintains for Firefox, either.

The problem comes not just from the revenue stream Google provides to Firefox, most recently $56 million in 2006. Soghoian noted how Googlers spend a lot of time building
Firefox, including lead developer Ben Goodger, a Google
software engineer.

Google contributes time, people, and money, the three essential parts of any project. Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker has claimed Mozilla can quit Google any time it wants.

If they really want to keep the trust of Firefox users, it may be time for a divorce. It won't be as easy as driving through a quickie divorce shop in Reno, but for the long term good of the
project it may be necessary.

Unless, of course, they really can't leave $56 million and scads of talented Googler developer time on the table.

World most popular domains

2007-08-31T15:14:00.000-07:00

The following chart represents current statistics for many of the worlds most popular domains.

Domain Amount Registered Country

.de 11.052.403 Germany

.uk 6.038.732 United Kingdom

.eu 2.463.114 European Union

.nl 2.455.568 Netherlands

.it 1.396.184 Italy

.ch 1.000.021 Switzerland

.be 682.591 Belgium

.dk 814.504 Denmark

.fr 855.980 France

.at 779.572 Austria

.pl 657.102 Poland

.se 634.181 Sweden

.es 606.689 Spain

.no 333.754 Norway

.cz 316.642 Czech

.fi 150.414 Finland

.pt 120.441 Portugal

.ie 72.387 Ireland

.cn 6.149.851 China

.us 1.258.955 United States

.br 1.135.114 Brazil

.jp 934.478 Japan

Web Hosting Show - Account Types

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Domains & Webhosting service

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Website Address

You have probably heard of URL (Uniform Resource Locator). This is the web address that we keyed or typed into the navigation bar of the web browser. Internet Explorer or Fire Fox are web browsers. Example of a full address are described below:

http://www.sports.com/men/rugby/boots.html

http: protocol or https: ( +s for secured )
// separators
www.sports.com/ domain name
men/ subdomain name
rugby/ subdirectory name
boots.html document name (Web page)

From the the above it can be seen that the DOMAIN name is the one that gave the identity to a website.

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The domain must has a space to be located. The address goes to identify and locate the Domain. The Domain is accessible via the World Wide Web, www. A web hosting service is the company that provide the space to locate the domain.

The scope of service varied widely. The most basic is a small-scale file hosting, where web page or files can be uploaded.

The bigger provide a domain of the client's choice, a dedicated server, e-mails - management system and may create the website required.