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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – May 25, 2012

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:48:14 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- In the week ending May 25, 2012, DemoWolf is offering discounts on its newly released tutorial series for SmarterMail 9.x, EuroDNS is offering a discounted .JP domain registration, HostGator is offering $100 off the first month of all of its Windows dedicated servers, and AstroVPS is offering 50 percent off its VPS Linux package.

Dell Enhances Desktop Virtualization with Acquisition of Wyse Cloud Client Computing

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:42:50 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- IT services provider Dell announced on Friday it has completed its acquisition of cloud client computing provider Wyse Technology. The terms of the deal were not disclosed in the press release.

Data Center Operator CyrusOne Triples Sales Team

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:40:25 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- Data center operator CyrusOne announced on Thursday that it has tripled its national sales team in response to increasing demand for space in its facilities.

UK Government Reissues G-Cloud Framework to Attract New Suppliers and Services

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:06:26 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- The UK government announced this week it has officially opened up the second round of procurement for the G-Cloud with a framework in an effort to draw in new suppliers and services.

New Google Transparency Report Provides Insight into URL Takedown Requests

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:59:26 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- Google released a report on Thursday that identifies companies and copyright owners behind URL removal requests. The data shows that Microsoft is the top company requesting URLs that violate its copyrights to be removed.

Cloud Management Firm Cloudant Expands to Europe with Amsterdam Data Center

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:07:33 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- Cloud data management provider Cloudant announced on Tuesday it has expanded its data center presence globally to support customer demand and corporate growth.

Security Researchers Propose New Extension to Solve SSL Certificate Issues

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:05:37 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- Security researchers have submitted a proposal for a new extension to the Transport Layer Security protocol to the Internet Engineering Task Force on Wednesday.

Colocation Provider NYI Launches East Coast Mirror for FreeBSD Foundation

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:35:46 +0000

May 25, 2012 -- Colocation provider NYI announced on Friday that it has launched the East Coast mirror for The FreeBSD Foundation. First announced in August 2010, the mirror will replicate key West coast project infrastructure at NYI Bridgewater in New Jersey.

Vint Cerf Calls For ITU To Be Kept Away From Internet Governance, Including ICANN

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:46:12 +0000

Vint Cerf is critical of plans by various countries over a battle for the internet that is opening at the International Telecommunications Union in this opinion piece in the New York Times. Cerf writes that the ITU “is conducting a review of the international agreements governing telecommunications and aims to expand its regulatory authority to the Internet at a summit scheduled for December in Dubai.” “Such a move holds potentially profound — and I believe potentially hazardous — implications for the future of the Internet and all of its users.” Cerf says the secret of the internet’s success is that “governments — for the most part — allowed the Internet to grow organically, with civil society, academia, private sector and voluntary standards bodies collaborating on development, operation and governance.” “In contrast, the ITU creates significant barriers to civil society participation.” Cerf goes on to say that “while many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net.” Some of the proposals for ITU governance have surfaced from within the organisation, including that “several authoritarian regimes reportedly would ban anonymity from the Web, which would make it easier to find and arrest dissidents. Others have suggested moving the privately run system that manages domain names and Internet addresses to the United Nations.” “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.” Cerf encourages people “to take action now: Insist that the debate about internet governance be transparent and open to all stakeholders.” Vint Cerf’s article, Keep the Internet Open , can be read in full on The New York Times website by going to www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html . There have also been a couple of articles in Forbes on the issue. One, is by Scott Cleland, President of Precursor LLC and Chairman of NetCompetition, a pro-competition e-forum supported by broadband interests and who during the George H.W. Bush Administration, Cleland served as Deputy United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Cleland writes that “any attempt to remake the Internet in the ITU’s image – “the ITUnet” – is pure folly. The essence of the Internet is that it is voluntary; no entity mandated it or controls it. People, companies, entities and nations all voluntarily have chosen to use the Internet because it is the best at what it does.” “The folly here is that the ITU does not understand the voluntary nature of the Internet or how the Internet really operates and evolves – because the bottom-up collaborative Internet is the antithesis of top-down governmental command and control.” On the domain name system, Cleland says it “rapidly became universal precisely because people voluntarily recognized its essential value and adopted it. No country owns, controls, or approves Internet’s addresses; it’s a collaborative, consensus-based, multi-stakeholder process. The World Wide Web became the third voluntary leg of Internet universality, because it offered a universal application to enable people to get to and display most any kind of Internet content available. With the Internet, the best ideas and innovations win on merit not coercion.” “Those imagining the ITU can assert authority over the Internet simply don’t understand how the Internet works. They desperately want to believe the Internet operates like last century’s telephone networks because that’s what they know and that’s what they want it to be, so that they can tax and regulate it to redistribute revenues.” Cleland’s article, The ‘ITUnet’ Folly: Why The UN Will Never Control The Internet , is available to be read in full at www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/05/24/the-itunet-folly-why-the-un-will-never-control-the-internet . However taking a contrary view of the ITU’s intention, also in Forbes, is Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University where he works with the Technology Policy Program. Thierer writes that “in the short term, however, this threat is somewhat overstated. There’s no way the U.N. could “take over the Net.” It’s a technical impossibility. The Internet’s infrastructure and governance structure are both too decentralized for any one global entity to take control.” To read Thierer’s Forbes article, Does the Internet Need a Global Regulator? , in full, go to: www.forbes.com/sites/adamthierer/2012/05/06/does-the-internet-need-a-global-regulator

.РФ TLD Two Years Old!

Vrytek — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:21:17 +0000

[news release] Today on May 12, 2012 Russian Cyrillic ccTLD .РФ celebrates its second birthday. Two years ago domain .РФ became one of the first IDN-domains in the world on May 12, 2012 registers of root server of global domain addresses received an entry about Cyrillic domain .РФ and on November 11, 2010 domain started an open registration of domain names. Within two years of its work domain .РФ became an unconditional leader among global IDN-domains and also took the 16th place among European ccTLDs. Currently it contains 797,325 of registered domain names. The increase of delegated domain names in domain .РФ for the last year accounted for 14 %, the number of delegated domain names is 573, 948 or 72% of the total. 289, 056 (36%) domain names in domain .РФ place working websites (a year ago there were 20%). 88,038 (11%) of domain names are used for re-direct. 76% of domain names have been registered by individuals, 24% – by legal entities. The most widespread length of a domain name in domain .РФ – 9 symbols(as in domain .RU). Notably, on average a domain name in .РФ is longer than that in .RU (the average length: 11.1 symbols vs.9.4). 95.7% domain names in .РФ have been registered by Russians. Leaders by the number of registered names in .РФ are Moscow (259,116 names or 32,5%), Moscow region (70,172 names or 8,8%) and St. Petersburg (64,914 names or 8,1%). “Domain .РФ reached a stable level of its growth. By the end of 2012 we expect that the number of domain names in domain .РФ will reach 1,000,000-says Director of the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ Andrey Kolesnikov. –“What is more important is not the growth itself but that the domain names in Russian are increasingly used by Russian companies, private users for placing their web-sites on them. Domain in the national language influenced the growth of the Internet in Russia. We thank all who support and develop national Cyrillic domain. This Coordination Center for TLD RU news release was sourced from: cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=3760 . To register your .РФ domain name, check out Europe Registry here .