Despite being called a cynic and a liar when I wrote that after Google Inc became an ICANN registrar, it signified the impending end of hosted services, it sadly transpires that i was correct…
The growth of GoogleMail (GMail) which has largely obliterated Yahoo and Hotmail as a free email service, has now been joined by “Google Tools” for your domain.
https://www.google.com/a/
details the myriad of *FREE* services now available from Google branded with your domain :
- Free GMail for your domain - (address)@yourdomain.com
- Free GoogleTalk - the big G’s appalling Jabber client
- Free GoogleCalendar - online scheduling for your workforce
- Free Google WebBuilder - online web design tool
- Free Hosting
Thats it. The long-standing high-quality business hosts will have to find alternate business models, and the cheapo hosts may as simply pack up if users can get it free …
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1&1 Internet, Inc., the US subsidary of our friends United Internet A.G. announced 24/August/2006 that it will open a new data centre in Lenexa, Kansas City, Kansas, United States, during the 1st quarter 2007.
Specifications
- Approximate cost $11,000,000
- Staff 15
- Size 55,000 sq.ft. facility
- Housing upto 40,000 servers
- Purpose to house the company’s U.S. and Canadian web hosting client base
Currently, 1&1’s US/Canada customers are hosted in two rented data centers in New York and New Jersey, these are expected to close once the Kansas facility is operational.
Andreas Gauger, Chairman, 1&1 Internet…
“Opening another location besides our headquarters in the Philadelphia area underscores the importance of our U.S. business, 1&1 will invest up to $9 million in the Lenexa site this year and several millions more in 2007.”
Kansas City Secretary of Commerce, Howard Fricke…
“We are pleased to welcome 1&1 Internet’s new facility to Kansas, to be chosen by the world’s fastest-growing Web host truly speaks volumes about the business-friendly climate we have created in Kansas.
1&1 Internet will be a great addition to the Kansas business community, and we look to the company to be a leader for years to come.”
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ICANN finally announced that the Ã…land Islands country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .ax has now become operational.
The announcement follows formal approval of the new ccTLD by the ICANN Board on the 9/June/2006 and addition of the .ax domain to the root zone shortly afterwards.
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LINX (London INternet eXchange) today published the agenda for the next meeting being held 21/22 August 2006 at the Goodenough College, London …
One particular item on the technical agenda caught my eye …
Love, Hate, Peering and Transit
- A Sordid Tale of Transit-Swapping,Leaking and Other Nefarious Deeds
sounds gripping, so booked myself in … report to follow afterwards 
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According to an article published in the New York Times, 8/June/2006, Google Seeks More Power, yet another new massive datacentre is to be constructed utilising the enormous power-generation capabilities of the Columbia River.
This joins MSN and Yahoo!, who already have building works underway in border towns between southern Washington and northern Oregon, all wanting to take advantage of the cheap electricity provided by the powerful mountain river.
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