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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]