Some clever editing of video footage, some dramatic music and a clever voiceover make ICANN and Internet Governance sound .. well, exciting I guess. Here's the teaser video: https://youtu.be/OgPQbeHWYP8 As I mentioned yesterday, ICANN CEO Göran Marby will be speaking at WHD Global next month. … [Read more...] about WHD Have Managed to Make ICANN Sound Exciting
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WHIR 2017 Networking Events
If you work in the domains or hosting space you probably have read The WHIR at some point. Apart from the news site, they also organise a number of networking events in the US and overseas. They recently announced the cities and dates for their events in 2017: Austin - February 23 Phoenix - March 16 Los Angeles - April 5 Las Vegas - April 12 Montreal - May … [Read more...] about WHIR 2017 Networking Events
WHD Global and WHD USA Dates & Venues Announced
World Hosting Days, or as it's better known, WHD, will be held again next year. In 2016 the "global" event will return to Rust, Germany, as it has done for the last few years, with the event taking place between March 15 - 17. Due to the events location most people tend to arrive on the Monday and leave on the Friday, so it's essentially a full week event. The event venue is, … [Read more...] about WHD Global and WHD USA Dates & Venues Announced
WHIR Holding Events In Amsterdam & London
The WHIR holds networking events at US cities throughout the year which appear to be very popular. This autumn they'll be holding two such events in Europe. One in Amsterdam and one in London. (This isn't the first time that they've done events in Europe.) The Amsterdam event is timed to coincide with HostingCon Europe and will probably be located somewhere close to the … [Read more...] about WHIR Holding Events In Amsterdam & London
HostingCon Europe Early Bird Expires Soon
HostingCon is coming back to Amsterdam this September and they have a really attractive "early bird" rate of only €40. If you're interested in going the "early bird" rate expires on June 27th, after which it'll go up to €80. So far the event organisers have released a preliminary schedule and the topics look pretty interesting. … [Read more...] about HostingCon Europe Early Bird Expires Soon
HostingCon Europe Early Bird Special
HostingCon is returning to Europe this September. The event will be held in Amsterdam's Passenger Terminal on September 22 - 23 The organisers are currently offering "early bird" tickets for a mere EUR40, which is very good value. Full details on the official site. … [Read more...] about HostingCon Europe Early Bird Special
#HostingCon $500 Amazon Gift Cert Giveaway
HostingCon is being held in San Diego, California this July from July 27th to 29th. In the runup to the event the organisers will be pushing out quite a bit of PR .. And today they announced a USD$500 Amazon gift certificate giveaway. You can enter up to twice per day simply by tweeting Full details here … [Read more...] about #HostingCon $500 Amazon Gift Cert Giveaway
DotHost Launch Pioneer Program
Radix, who have applied for several domain extensions, announced today the launch of the .host pioneer program. The .host domain is pretty self-explanatory and is aimed at companies operating in the hosting sector. They've been doing quite a bit of targeted marketing over the last year with them exhibiting at industry events worldwide such as HostingCon and World Hosting … [Read more...] about DotHost Launch Pioneer Program
Solid Host To Sue Enom and Namecheap
Normally when I see headlines about companies suing registrars I have to read "more" to find out what has happened. In the case of SolidHost that isn't the case, as I've been following this story quite closely over the last couple of weeks.Around 7pm on August 4th Solidhost sent their clients an email saying that their site was unavailable as the domain had been hijacked.They … [Read more...] about Solid Host To Sue Enom and Namecheap
UK Registrar 123 Reg Experiencing Issues?
According to several reports UK registrar and hosting company UK Reg has been experiencing intermittent issues.More details are available here and hereThe company issued a statement to explain what happened:123-reg experienced intermittent performance issues on its DNS servers between late afternoon on Friday 16 November and Sunday 18 November. This meant that some customers … [Read more...] about UK Registrar 123 Reg Experiencing Issues?