ISPs Create Tangled Web of Sneaky Fees
It was supposed to be a small gift from the federal government to Internet users. On Aug. 14, 2006, a $2-$3 per month government tax on DSL broadband service...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/05/2008 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Overhaul of Net Addresses Begins
The first big steps on the road to overhauling the net's core addressing system have been taken. On Monday the master address books for the net are being updated...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Rackspace Goes Down Again, Loses Tumblr's Business
Microblogging service Tumblr went down for a few hours yesterday. The outage cost the world several hours of vintage pinup girls and ironic reblogging. And it cost...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Dreamhost Overbills Customers $7.5 Million
We had a teensy eensy weensy little billing error last night… my first clue something was up when I saw this morning’s daily billing report (so far): $7,500,000.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Increasing Internet Capacity
ARE YOU one of the over 63 million people who watched the "Evolution of Dance" on YouTube? Did you download the latest version of "The Colbert Report" on your iPod?
eBusiness News | Posted 12/27/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Why Larry Ellison Loves Linux
Just a few years ago, the open-source software movement was a pariah among big software firms. Shai Agassi, then an executive at SAP (SAP), likened it to socialism.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/19/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Scientists Abuzz Over More Efficient Web Servers
An intricate honeybee dance has generated a big buzz among scientists by serving as the model for an Internet server system that adapts in response to changing user demand.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/17/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Google: Cracking Code For A Storage Money Maker?
I was talking to one of our assistant managing editors today and asked him a question: how much is Oprah worth? His response?
eBusiness News | Posted 12/12/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

In Test, Canadian ISP Splices Itself Into Google Homepage
A screen shot posted to the web over the weekend seems to show that Canada's largest provider of high-speed internet access is exploring a controversial data substitution...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/11/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage
Back in the day, when PC stocks were kings on Wall Street, a pesky college kid named Michael Dell figured out that he could do an end run around the then-established...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/05/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Google’s Next Frontier: Renewable Energy
Google said it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars on renewable energy, part of that to hire engineers and experts to investigate alternative energies...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/28/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Latino Groups Seek .LAT Domain
The Latino community may soon have its own top-level domain, .LAT, if a proposal by two organizations goes through.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/27/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Rackspace Outage Was Third in Two Days
This update sent to us by a customer of Rackspace, the Texas Web host which temporarily lost a datacenter when a truck collided with a nearby power transformer.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/13/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Should Sprint Send Silicon Valley a Super Poke?
Sprint Nextel’s rough patch is turning into a highway from hell. The exit of CEO Gary Forsee, questions about its plans for a WiMAX network and its aborted partnership...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/12/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Masked Thieves Storm into Chicago Colocation (Again!)
The recent armed robbery of a Chicago-based co-location facility has customers hopping mad after learning it was at least the fourth forced intrusion in two years.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/04/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Ban on Net Access Taxes Extended to 2014
America's Internet access subscribers can breathe a sigh of relief: Congress isn't planning to allow taxes on your connection for another seven years.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/30/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

FTC Demands Bigger Spyware Penalties
US consumer watchdog the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling for a bigger stick with which to punish spyware purveyors.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/30/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Privacy Advocates Propose Scrapping Whois
Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated...
eBusiness News | Posted 10/30/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Internet Pioneer Leaves Oversight Group
In the 1970s, Vint Cerf played a leading role in developing the Internet's technical foundation. For the past seven years...
eBusiness News | Posted 10/29/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Routing Economics Threaten the Internet
The Internet has some major problems. The big one involves the cost of supporting the amount of content and services being supplied over the Internet infrastructure.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/25/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Wal-Mart's Latest Sale: Broadband
The retail giant's ISP turn is likely to push down prices and squeeze out competition. Will other big-box stores follow suit?
eBusiness News | Posted 10/09/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Inside Amazon's Dynamo
The original working title of my forthcoming book "The Big Switch" was "Dynamo," so I was particularly interested to see that Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, together...
eBusiness News | Posted 10/03/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Dot-Name Becomes Cybercrime Haven
The company that controls the .name registry is charging for access to domain registration information, a step that security researchers say frustrates their ability...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/28/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Cities Turning Off Plans for Wi-Fi
Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too ...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/20/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

New Net Taxes Could Arrive in November
Americans might pay more for DSL and cable modem bills starting November 1, thanks to politicians in the U.S. Congress who have yet to extend a federal moratorium...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/15/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Net Gains For Tiny Pacific Nation
An atoll in the South Pacific has come up with a novel way of making money via its domain name .TK.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/15/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Ten Things That Finally Killed Net Neutrality
If you haven't heard much about Net neutrality this year, you're not alone. It went from being the political equivalent of a first-run Broadway show, with accompanying...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/07/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Feds OK Fee for Priority Web Traffic
The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/06/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Earthlink Needs a Lifeline
The onetime high-flying ISP is running out of options as customers abandon dial-up services for faster ways to get online.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/30/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Dot-com Names Get Dottier
From Abazab to Xoopit, start-ups try to be clever and unique to stand out from the hundreds of new firms online. Still, many are just gibberish.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/29/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

EarthLink Restructures, Cuts 900 Jobs
Amid declining subscribers for its Internet services EarthLink unveiled a restructuring that will shutter a handful of locations and eliminate 900 jobs.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/28/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Eleven Steps to Buying a Domain Name That Doesn't Suck
Whether you're a multinational Internet retailer or a lone human just entering the Web world, there are many things to consider when purchasing a new domain name...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/17/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

And Broadband Goes Slo-Mo
U.S. broadband subscriber growth, which had been rising at a blistering pace for nearly 12 quarters, started to slow down in the three-month period that ended in June.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/17/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

A Dot-Org Stresses That It's No Dot-Com
A large marketer of financial services is seeking to become the master of a domain name. The marketer is TIAA-CREF, which is making a significant change in its...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/15/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Why Wi-Fi Networks Are Floundering
Faced with weak user demand, AT&T and other telecoms are vowing to tear up their muni Wi-Fi contracts if cities don't foot more of the bill.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/15/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Digg Architecture
Traffic generated by Digg's over 1.2 million famously info-hungry users can crash an unsuspecting website head-on into its CPU, memory, and bandwidth limits.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/09/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

40+ Free Blog Hosts
So it seems all we ever speak about is Wordpress, but don't forget that you have options when choosing a blog platform. Here are 40 free ways to get started.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/06/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Public Wi-Fi: Past its Prime?
For the average Internet user, wireless means Wi-Fi. Most routers used in offices and at hot-spots in local cafes and -libraries use Wi-Fi technology.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/04/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

After The Dot: The Latest Net Revolution
Changes in the way websites are named could have a massive impact on the internet - and cause controversy along the way.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/01/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Blackout On The Web
When a single data center sneezes, the Internet gets a cold. That's what several major Web sites learned Tuesday afternoon when a power outage in downtown ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/25/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Media Temple is Bringing Virtualization to Dedicated Physical Servers
Media Temple, which hosts Read/WriteWeb, is announcing a brand new product at Hosting Con in Chicago this coming Tuesday evening PST.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/24/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Canonical Releases Web-Based Server Management Platform
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, aims to simplify server management with a new tool that will be available to Ubuntu support subscribers.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/24/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Global Broadband Prices Revealed
Broadband users in 30 of the world's most developed countries are getting greatly differing speeds and prices, according to a report.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/17/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

New Rules Could Rock Wireless World
Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device and load any software on it - not have to take what...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/10/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Find a Good Domain Name with Bust a Name
Web site Bust a Name suggests available domain names based on user-defined keywords. After you add keywords, the tool suggests different available domains...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/10/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Web 2.0 Effect Debunked As Marketing Ploy
The Web 2.0 Effect: Which Host Will Survive? site presented itself as a test of web hosting services, but now appears to be an elaborate promotion for the ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/09/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles
People who sign up for OpenDNS's service are offered an easier way to find Web pages and greater online protection from malicious sites.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/09/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

The Declaration of IPv6 Independence
Somewhere in the 2020s, a decade after the last IPv4 address has been used up, computer science students are going to learn about the transition from IPv4 to ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/05/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

IP Address Timebomb
IP addresses are as crucial to websites as street addresses are for businesses but some network engineers predict that we will run out of them in two years.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/27/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

ICANN Mulls Registrar Changes
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is seeking ideas and opinions on ways to modify the agreement terms it enters into with Internet registrars...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/27/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names