Over the years Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest in LA has consistently expanded beyond domaining and has become an inclusive event for anyone who relies on domains – domainers, registries, registrars, resellers, hosting company etc. This year I even spotted Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame. For the 2012 conference the crew behind the event is introducing a new contest – the Fantasy Domaining [...]
Sedo co-founder Tim Schumacher to resign as CEO and transition to board of directors, Tobias Flaitz to become new CEO Cologne, Germany: The board of Sedo Holding AG has named Tobias Flaitz as the new CEO of Sedo. On February 1, 2012, he will succeed Sedo’s current CEO and co-founder, Tim Schumacher, who’s transitioning to [...]
Web hosting is a tough business – our customers expect us to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, there are a lot of variables in play, and the room for error is small. That’s ignoring the fact that the hosting business has extremely low barriers to entry and as a result, [...]
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) announced on Tuesday it has named Simon Anderson its new CEO. The appointment maks Anderson the first person to fill the company’s CEO role in a full-time capacity in its 13-year history. DreamHost co-founder Josh Jones will step down from his interim CEO position to [...]
Ben Crawford is the CEO of domain industry firm CentralNic. Prior to joining that firm in 2009, Crawford worked at various jobs which combined his love of sports with Internet technology, including serving as executive producer for IBM’s official Sydney Olympic Games website. From Transcom ISP, post How ICANN’s Approval of New Domains Will Change [...]
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data storage provider Basho Technologies (www.basho.com) announced on Wednesday it has named former Accenture CTO Donald J. Rippert the company’s president and CEO. Effective July 1, Rippert will lead Basho in what the board expects to be a “period of extraordinary growth” for the company. Basho also announced that it [...]
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT infrastructure provider NTT America (www.us.ntt.com/en) announced on Wednesday it has named three key executives that focus on corporate sales and streamlined corporate processes. The series of appointments come a full year after Kazuhiro Gomi was named the company’s president and CEO and member of the board of directors. Michael [...]
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center and cloud service monitoring provider AccelOps (www.accelops.com) announced on Monday it has named William Delaney the company’s chief financial officer. This marks the third key appointment for AccelOps in the past couple months, following Richard Kagan’s joining the board of directors and Elie Antoun being named president and [...]
When the CEO of a startup web hosting company was searching for SEO help and discovered a company who charges only after his site achieved rankings, he said, “you know the decision was honestly fairly simple.” Pay-for-rankings, also … From Transcom ISP, post Performance Based SEO: Innovative Pricing or Russian Roulette for Backlinks? Transcom Divisions [...]
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Web.com Group (www.web.com) announced on Friday it has launched a simple but powerful new tool to enable small businesses to create mobile websites. “We’re committed to helping small businesses capitalize on the growing mobile opportunity,” said David L. Brown, chairman and CEO of Web.com. “Our solution provides [...]