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News
Post Date: 23 July 2008 - 11:15AM
Hosting company UK2.net announced today that it has followed up fantastic first quarter results with an equally successful second quarter, resulting in above target performance and exceptional half year results.
Again the success is due to excellent growth in the higher revenue and profit areas of shared and dedicated hosting, not just domain names. Also UK2.net has seen positive growth in both new customers and existing customer renewals.
Again the success is due to excellent growth in the higher revenue and profit areas of shared and dedicated hosting, not just domain names. Also UK2.net has seen positive growth in both new customers and existing customer renewals.
“We were extremely pleased with our Quarter 1 results, but are even happier to have continued the strong performance throughout Quarter 2, making 2008 one of our best years so far”, said Ditlev Bredahl, Managing Director / CEO of UK2. “We have made significant changes within UK2 over the past few years, which in turn have generated significant rewards. We have really enhanced our support, strengthened our network, launched an amazing portfolio of products and have kept our prices competitive. Underpinning all of this is a team of dedicated UK2 employees, who promise to “Bend Over Backwards” to help all our customers."
UK2.net has been a significant player in the British and European hosting markets since 1998, and is the founder brand of the UK-2 Group. UK2.net underwent a large organisational and strategic restructure in 2006 when the new Management Team came on board.Post Date: 23 July 2008 - 11:12AM
UK Host Easyspace has added the highly anticipated .me domain extension to its portfolio.The rollout of the .me extension began back in March 2008, going through its Sunrise and Land Rush periods from May onwards before being officially launched for open registrations on Thursday 17th July on a first come first serve basis.
While the .me domain has been assigned as a Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro, it's expected that its popularity will stretch to include use on personal websites and as a popular extension for marketing activities across the globe. Easyspace is one of only a handful of UK based registrars already selling .me domain names and, inline with the requirements of the .me registry, domains can be registered for a minimum 2 year up to a maximum 10 year period.
While the .me domain has been assigned as a Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro, it's expected that its popularity will stretch to include use on personal websites and as a popular extension for marketing activities across the globe. Easyspace is one of only a handful of UK based registrars already selling .me domain names and, inline with the requirements of the .me registry, domains can be registered for a minimum 2 year up to a maximum 10 year period.
Post Date: 21 July 2008 - 9:54AM
European Hosting and Domain experts Dada have acquired the Amen Group from web hosting provider and ISP Clara.net for 17.5m Euros in cash. Founded in 1999, Amen provides domain and hosting services in France, Spain and Portugal, and is also present in the UK, Dutch and Italian markets.
The company has over 140,000 business customers, 300,000 hosted domains and more than 3,000 dedicated servers, offering a range of Internet solutions to businesses and professionals including domain name registration, hosting, web design, web marketing, e-commerce and brand protection. Dada also owns the UK host and ISP Namesco.
The company has over 140,000 business customers, 300,000 hosted domains and more than 3,000 dedicated servers, offering a range of Internet solutions to businesses and professionals including domain name registration, hosting, web design, web marketing, e-commerce and brand protection. Dada also owns the UK host and ISP Namesco.
Post Date: 16 July 2008 - 2:44PM
Easyspace, one of the largest web hosting and domain name providers in the UK, has this week launched a unique customisable web hosting service for home and business users. The Pic 'n' Mix package lets customers customise their hosting solution to better match their requirements at the slide of a selection bar, by allowing them to choose the settings of five key components – disk space, bandwidth, mailboxes, operating system and payment plan.
Costs for the Pic 'n' Mix package range from as little as £1.25 to £30 per month depending on the choices the customer makes. Customers can choose:
- between five and 200 mailboxes
- between one and 20GB of disk space
- between three and 50GB of bandwidth
- Linux or Windows-based systems
- monthly or yearly payment plans
All Pic 'n' Mix packages still come with a range of default features including a free domain name, daily backups, webmail access, database options, firewall protection, password protection, web stats, free email marketing credits, free Pay Per Click search credits and an extensive and effective customer support service.
http://www.easyspace.com
Costs for the Pic 'n' Mix package range from as little as £1.25 to £30 per month depending on the choices the customer makes. Customers can choose:
- between five and 200 mailboxes
- between one and 20GB of disk space
- between three and 50GB of bandwidth
- Linux or Windows-based systems
- monthly or yearly payment plans
All Pic 'n' Mix packages still come with a range of default features including a free domain name, daily backups, webmail access, database options, firewall protection, password protection, web stats, free email marketing credits, free Pay Per Click search credits and an extensive and effective customer support service.
http://www.easyspace.com
Post Date: 16 July 2008 - 2:42PM
Managed UK server hosting company, EveryCity, has announced that it will shortly be moving all of its customers within managed environments with dual power feeds. It's hoped that the move will result in 100% uptime for most of their clients. EveryCity will be including it as part of their standard offering for both new and existing clients.
http://www.everycity.co.uk
http://www.everycity.co.uk
Post Date: 11 July 2008 - 12:54PM
For a limited period of just two weeks, Daily.co.uk are offering two year .com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz domains at half price, which works out as £7.99 +vat instead of £15.98 for a two year domain registration. The offer ends 17th July and customers will need to enter a promo code 'HALFDOTCOM' when ordering to take advantage of the lower price.
http://www.daily.co.uk
http://www.daily.co.uk
Post Date: 11 July 2008 - 12:50PM
CyberHostPro has moved its hosting servers from Texas in the USA to the UK, a move which it hopes will enable better search results for Europe and UK based companie. Its servers have also been upgraded to Dell Poweredge 1950s with Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.
http://www.cyberhostpro.com
http://www.cyberhostpro.com
Post Date: 9 July 2008 - 10:57AM
Just 4% of Europe's overall data centre space was governed by London operations during the first quarter of 2008, which makes it the slowest quarter since 2004 when they first began leasing space. Problems in the financial sector and a general economic slow down have been attributed to the downturn.
Post Date: 9 July 2008 - 10:51AM
Registering an .info domain name with 123-Reg will cost you just 99p for the first year, thanks to a new July promotion from the UK host. The hosts blog page, which was recently hacked, has also returned after a several week long absence.
Post Date: 9 July 2008 - 10:47AM
UK Host Easyspace are offering £100 bonus to every affiliate that generates 5 or more sales on Dedicated Servers (1 year and above), until end of July. The bonus will be in addition to standard commission.
The host also recently began offering a range of virtual private server (VPS) package add-ons including a Burstable RAM service on its Linux Packages and automated backup services for both Windows and Linux servers.
The host also recently began offering a range of virtual private server (VPS) package add-ons including a Burstable RAM service on its Linux Packages and automated backup services for both Windows and Linux servers.
Post Date: 9 July 2008 - 10:40AM
Post Date: 9 July 2008 - 10:33AM
It's just been revealed that the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), which is responsible for translating Internet Protocol (IP) addresses into human readable form (e.g. "87.106.71.228" becomes "ispreview.co.uk") and vica versa, has had a serious underlying security flaw for several months.
The flaw, which could allow hackers to redirect your browsing activity to fake webpage’s and thus make phishing attacks even easier, was first discovered at the start of this year by security expert Dan Kaminsky (blog):
Part of the reason for all the secrecy is to avoid hackers being made aware of the fault before it could be fixed, which would have made the Internet incredibly vulnerable. Happily there have been no reported incidents of this particular flaw being exploited and precise details are likely to be kept under wraps until August.
The delay in disseminating information about the flaw is designed to give the patch some breathing room for deployment. Meanwhile the patch has also been made difficult to reverse engineer, thus hindering hackers’ ability to discover the fault before it can be fully deployed.
Internet users need not be too concerned about the problem, although people should always be vigilant. To that end, Kaminsky has made a DNS check available on his blog that allows you to test whether your connection / network may be vulnerable.
The flaw, which could allow hackers to redirect your browsing activity to fake webpage’s and thus make phishing attacks even easier, was first discovered at the start of this year by security expert Dan Kaminsky (blog):
"It's not good, this class of attack is known as cache poisoning and basically an attacker can go ahead and impersonate large chunks of the web or large chunks of the internet to a random user," warned Kaminsky.
Kaminsky subsequently began informing all of the major firms and DNS management systems about the flaw, which included Microsoft, Cisco, Sun and Bind. Since then they and Kaminsky have been working in secret to develop and rollout a multi-vendor patch to solve the problem across all platforms, which finally went live yesterday evening.Part of the reason for all the secrecy is to avoid hackers being made aware of the fault before it could be fixed, which would have made the Internet incredibly vulnerable. Happily there have been no reported incidents of this particular flaw being exploited and precise details are likely to be kept under wraps until August.
The delay in disseminating information about the flaw is designed to give the patch some breathing room for deployment. Meanwhile the patch has also been made difficult to reverse engineer, thus hindering hackers’ ability to discover the fault before it can be fully deployed.
Internet users need not be too concerned about the problem, although people should always be vigilant. To that end, Kaminsky has made a DNS check available on his blog that allows you to test whether your connection / network may be vulnerable.
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