New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - June 29, 2007 - Intermedia has announced that it will be the first Exchange host to support business email for the new Apple iPhone, as the highly anticipated mobile device hits the market today. In addition, if and when Microsoft ActiveSync support becomes available, Intermedia will sell single mailbox Exchange accounts with ActiveSync included.

Supporting ActiveSync l allow iPhone users to get direct push, always-synced email on their new devices. Intermedia’s ”iPhone plan” will include one mailbox for $10.95 per month, plus ActiveSync access for $4.95 per month ($15.90 in total), with a one-time setup fee to get started. Users will receive 500 MB of disk space per mailbox and access to the extensive features of Exchange 2007, such as calendars, contacts and the rich OWA 2007 web mail, in addition to direct push email.

Rurik Bradbury, VP Marketing for Intermedia commented, ”We are excited by the launch of the iPhone. Combined with Intermedia email, it will give users a complete experience of multimedia, telephone and Internet as well as full direct push email once ActiveSync support is enabled.”

Intermedia is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, providing a comprehensive package of the highest uptime, 24×7 support, and technical knowledge. In the hosting business since 1995 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000, Intermedia offered the first Exchange hosting solution specifically for small and medium businesses with enterprise-strength technology for low monthly fees, with no up-front investment. Intermedia is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, with 24×7 support. The company offers a variety of Exchange hosting and web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses with three users and upwards, to substantial mid-sized organizations.

To learn more about Intermedia’s iPhone plan, please visit: www.intermedia.net/iphone.

For more information about Intermedia, please visit: www.intermedia.net.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 29, 2007 - Managed web hosting services company, Rackspace, has been selected by FunnyorDie.com, to power the new comedy video website, created by actor Will Ferrell and co-producer, Adam McKay’s company, Gary Sanchez Productions.

Premiering two months ago, FunnyorDie.com has had over 13 million unique visitors, introducing the need for a powerful and scalable infrastructure to accommodate the site’s instant and growing popularity. The most popular video, ”The Landlord,” featuring Will Ferrell, received more than 34 million views in less than two months. Under the 12-month agreement, Rackspace created a customized, high-availability environment with multiple layers of redundancy at the network and hardware level to ensure the website’s continued success.

Mitch Galbraith, Chief Operating Officer of FunnyorDie.com offered, ”FunnyorDie.com launched with a bang, attracting more than seven-million page views in the first week. We needed to get a robust infrastructure in place to support the volume of traffic. We lined up Rackspace to design the appropriate infrastructure, and they’ve delivered each step of the way with their technical guidance and expertise in enterprise Linux. The Rackspace team takes the success of our site personally, and they are available for us 24/7, which is strategic for us since people visit our site around the clock.”

As part of Rackspace’ s Intensive Hosting for Enterprise Linux offering, Rackspace designed a configuration architected for full redundancy, maximum processing power and seamless content delivery. Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both Rackspace-built servers as well as HP ProLiant DL385 enterprise servers, the FunnyorDie.com configuration includes a scalable managed backup solution from a centralized network for the vast amount of digital content. The high availability environment also includes an advanced custom monitoring system using Cacti logging tools to write custom monitoring shells and provide real-time monitoring of each device and application. Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting also provides managed security, performance-enhancing gear and advanced MySQL database services.

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Rackspace Managed Hosting remarked, ”FunnyorDie.com is a trailblazer in the online video space. With a growing audience and thousands of hilarious videos, many featuring top celebrities, they need a reliable infrastructure behind their digital community. Funny or Die trusts Rackspace’s new media hosting expertise to support a superior user experience and ultimately enable a platform for funny people around the world.”

Funny or Die is a new video website that focuses exclusively on comedy. The web site launched in April of 2007 and is already one of the most visited comedy sites on the web, according to publicly available data at www.quantcast.com. The web site’s new genre of content features the raw and experimental look and feel of user-generated video, turbocharged with celebrity talent. An example of the powerful appeal of this style of content is ”The Landlord,” a video featuring Funny or Die founders Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The video, depicting an altercation between Will Ferrell and his tough-as-nails landlord (played by a 2 year-old girl), has been viewed over 34 million times. The company has offices in Palo Alto and Los Angeles, California and is funded by Sequoia Capital.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about Funny or Die, Inc., please visit: www.funnyordie.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Atlanta, Georgia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 29, 2007 - Web hosting Internet services company, Web.com, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Website Pros, which will unite the companies with an annualized revenue of over $117 million and over 234,000 paid subscribers.

Under the terms of the agreement, which was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, Web.com shareholders may elect to receive for every Web.com share either 0.6875 shares of Website Pros stock or $6.5233 in cash, subject to proration so that the total cash paid shall equal $25 million. In the aggregate, Website Pros will issue approximately 9 million shares of Website Pros stock and pay $25 million in cash. In addition, Website Pros will assume all of the outstanding options to purchase common stock of Web.com at an exchange rate consistent with the value offered to holders of Web.com common stock. Based on the closing price of Website Pros’ stock on June 26, 2007, the transaction is valued at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $129 million.

The merger, which is subject to regulatory reviews and approvals, approval by the shareholders of both companies and certain other customary conditions, is expected to close during the second half of 2007.

David Brown, President and CEO of Website Pros explained, ”The combination of Website Pros and Web.com represents a milestone event in the highly fragmented web services market for small and medium-sized businesses, and is an investment in growth and scale that expands the customer base and value proposition for both companies. Web.com is highly synergistic with Website Pros from a product and services offering, market focus, and distribution channel perspective. Website Pros’ Do-It-For-Me web services, outbound sales and proven lead generation partners coupled with Web.com’s Do-It-Yourself web services, online marketing expertise, and complementary channel of SMB-focused partners make for a formidable player in the industry. The SMB market is very large with over 25 million SMBs in the U.S. alone, and I am excited to work with Jeff Stibel and his excellent team ensuring that our combined organization capitalizes on this tremendous opportunity.”

Jeff Stibel, President and CEO, Web.com added, ”We are very pleased that our success since new management took over in August 2005 has led to an approximate 200% increase in shareholder value and has positioned Web.com to realize further value through a merger with Website Pros. Over the last two years, the company has restored and accelerated top line growth, generated record levels of subscriber growth and has significantly improved its operational and financial performance. This complementary merger is a logical next step that has the potential to create substantial value for customers, partners and shareholders of both Web.com and Website Pros.”

There are a number of strategic reasons supporting the merger, including the following:

– Over $117 million annualized revenue run rate
– Over 234,000 paying subscribers
– 21 patents with several pending

– Industry-leading partnerships
– Comprehensive web services for SMBs

Website Pros is the leading provider of Do-It-For-Me web services solutions, while Web.com is a leader in providing Do-It-Yourself web services. The combined company hopes to be positioned to meet the diverse set of needs across small business customers and partners alike, thereby significantly expanding the addressable market opportunity for each individual company.

Significant cross-selling opportunity — Website Pros has continued to expand its SMB solutions beyond web services, including offerings from Leads.com, RenovationExperts.com, 1ShoppingCart and Submitawebsite. In addition, Web.com has expanded its capabilities with the introduction of services such as Microsoft Exchange hosting and partner offers. With over 234,000 paid subscribers, there is a significant opportunity to cross-sell value-added solutions to each of the respective customer bases.

Highly complementary sales channels — Website Pros’ revenue growth has been driven by its outbound sales organization, which manages and pursues leads from its partner channel that includes brand name enterprise companies in the financial, printing and technology sectors that have a large base of SMB customers. Web.com has accelerated its revenue growth through execution of an efficient marketing strategy and growing partnerships with companies that also service the SMB market, including yellow pages providers. The complementary nature of the two companies’ sales channels will enable the combined company to more effectively reach a far broader range of SMB customers than either company could do individually.

The companies believe there are significant opportunities for operating cost synergies through the integration of the two businesses, which is expected to result in pre-tax savings of approximately $5 million to $7 million during calendar year 2008. The merger is expected to be accretive to the combined companies’ non-GAAP diluted earnings per share in its first full year (CY2008), and is expected to break even on a GAAP earnings per share basis by the fourth quarter 2008. In addition to benefiting from the growing momentum in Web.com’s standalone business, the companies expect to capitalize on growth opportunities resulting from complementary products, channels, and geographic presence.

David Brown will continue in his role as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Website Pros. Jeff Stibel, the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Web.com, will become President of Website Pros, in addition to joining its Board of Directors. Including Mr. Stibel, Web.com representatives will hold two of seven seats on the combined company’s Board of Directors.

Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and Co, Inc. acted as financial advisor and Cooley Godward Kronish LLP acted as legal advisor to Website Pros. RBC Capital Markets acted as financial advisor and Stubbs Alderton and Markiles, LLP acted as legal advisor to Web.com.

Website Pros is a provider of Do-It-For-Me website building tools, Internet marketing, and lead generation solutions that enable businesses to maintain an effective Internet presence. The company offers a full range of web services, including website design and publishing, Internet marketing and advertising, search engine optimization, customer support and technology, and lead generation for general and online e-commerce web sites.

Web.com, formerly Interland, Inc., offers do-it-yourself and professional website design, website hosting, ecommerce, web marketing, developer hosting, and e-mail resources, since 1995.More than 4 million websites have been built using Web.com’s proprietary tools, services and patented technology. As one of the longest-standing leaders in the website hosting industry, Web.com offers proprietary, point-and-click technologies and expert support professionals to ensure simplicity and ease-of-use at every step of the process. Distribution Partners include: Yellow Pages directories, broadband services, telecommunications, retail, and others. Strategic distribution partners include: R.H. Donnelley, Dex Media, EarthLink, British Telecom, Terra Lycos, Thomas Publishing, Ambassador Yellow Pages, Hawaiian Telcom, Encore Software, Office Depot, CompUSA, Amazon.com, and Monster Worldwide. Technology Partners include: Cisco, Compaq, Foundry Networks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Lycos, Macromedia, Miva, Microsoft, Network Associates, Openwave, PayPal, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Staples, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Verizon, VERITAS, Yahoo, and WebTrends. The company’s web hosting and website building services can also be found under the Interland (www.interland.com) and Trellix (www.trellix.com) brands.

Web.com has been honored with the following accolades:

• Deloitte, Technology Fast 50 Winner, 2005 and 2006
• Excellence in Technology 2005 Awards – Ecommerce, SmallBusinessComputing.com
• # 12 on Deloitte’s 2004 Technology Fast 500
• #1 Web Design, Development and Services Company 2005, Atlanta Business Chronicle
• Frost and Sullivan Market Leadership Award 2003
• Who’s Who in Technology 2003 and 2004, Atlanta Business Chronicle

To learn more about Web.com, please visit: www.web.com.

For more information about Website Pros, please visit: www.websitepros.com.

Andover, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 29, 2007 -Application solutions, hosting and content delivery services firm, NaviSite, has named Rathin Sinha, as its new Chief Marketing Officer, a former Monster.com executive, with over 20 years of experience in marketing and eCommerce.

Mr. Sinha joins NaviSite most recently from Monster.com where he served as General Manager of eBusiness. While at Monster, Mr. Sinha built and expanded the eCommerce channel, tripling its revenue in less than four years. Prior to Monster, he was Vice President of Marketing for Standard Register, where he led strategy and marketing efforts to drive over $900 million in sales and business development. Previously, he held eCommerce, strategy and product leadership positions at FedExKinko’s, Mitchell Madison Group, and Honeywell.

Arthur Becker, CEO, NaviSite, Inc. remarked, ”Rathin brings highly compelling and extremely relevant experience to NaviSite. Not only does he have the background in growth-oriented marketing and sales disciplines, but he has also demonstrated exceptional capabilities in growing businesses by integrating online, offline, search and direct marketing programs and creating customer value in B2B and B2C environments. As NaviSite continues to accelerate its own web marketing and lead generation activities to support its expanded sales teams, Rathin will bring his online expertise to drive our effectiveness and marketing ROI. In addition, Rathin’s most recent experience at Monster will be invaluable to our America’s Job Exchange strategy and marketing activities.”

Mr. Sinha noted, ”NaviSite provides cutting-edge technology, web innovations and professional expertise to enable companies to reach their goals faster, whether these organizations are NaviSite’s clients or NaviSite itself. I am very excited to be part of a company that is leading the way in bringing together Internet technologies in a manner that truly represents the way organizations want to create and deliver value today. I look forward to working with the NaviSite team to help our clients accelerate their businesses.”

Mr. Sinha earned an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, dual Masters from the University of California, Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has also been a frequent speaker and contributor to the online marketing community. About NaviSite NaviSite is a leading provider of application and technology services for companies who seek to accelerate their business IT performance.

NaviSite is a provider of application solutions, hosting and content delivery services, with over 950 customers in 14 data centers; offices in the US, UK and India. NaviSite outsources enterprise applications and related technology services to drive IT Efficiency and Effectiveness. NaviSite delivers application implementation and management, hosting and content delivery services, along with complex application and IT services for mid sized companies.

For more information about NaviSite, please visit www.navisite.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 28, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has premiered the official launch of its new subsidiary, SEO Hosting. Created to provide search engine optimization web hosting offerings, the new services have been designed to afford customers with the ability to host on multiple C classes.

The new service stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator noted, ”With the importance of high organic rankings on web search engines, businesses are looking to maximize every advantage that will help them improve their results. We found that companies were signing up with multiple locations in order to host different C Classes. SEO Hosting allows these customers the ability to consolidate all their accounts onto a single server and host, saving them time and money.”

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet, where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, TX and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers.

Examples of some C Class hosting plans include:

- 5 C Classes for $7 per C-Class
- 30 C Classes for $5.75 per C-Class
- 50 C Classes for $4.75 per C-Class

Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. In addition, all hosting plans are covered by 24×7x365 support with instant backups and no contracts required. SEO Hosting is offering a 30-day money back guarantee with instant free setup for new customers.

Mr. Oxley added, ”The initial response has been extremely encouraging, and we expect the strong demand to continue. Customers are also reassured that SEO Hosting is backed by Host Gator’s reputation for top-notch service and support.”

SEO Hosting plans to offer useful tools in the future to its customers as well as provide search engine optimization advice from guest experts on its blog.

SEO Hosting is a division of Host Gator, a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting. SEO Hosting was created as a search engine optimization hosting service for businesses desiring to maximize web presence. SEO Hosting has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT and T and AboveNet.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator is home to 60,000 customers and over 600,000 web sites. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day
money-back guarantee.

To learn more about SEO Hosting, please visit: www.seohosting.com.

For more information about Host Gator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

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Pearl River, New York - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 28, 2007 - Web hosting firm, Easy CGI, has premiered a free domain privacy feature, which clients may activate for any domain registered through the Easy CGI Domain Registrar, a feature which is customarily fee-based.

Easy CGI’s Domain Privacy Feature is designed to keep personal information from public exposure in WHOIS databases, preventing spam, unwanted phone calls and other unnecessary aggravation. The Easy CGI customer will retain full ownership and control of the domain. Domain registration information, including the Administrative, Billing and Technical contacts, are simply masked with generic contact information within public WHOIS databases. Requests to contact the domain owner are filtered and forwarded to the customer.

Ted Beckwith, Vice President of Easy CGI explained, ”At Easy CGI, we understand the importance of privacy and security, particularly with regards to spammers, telemarketers and other undesired third parties. Domain Privacy enables us to offer domain registration services without forcing our clients to put their contact information into a public database that can be viewed and used by anyone. We’re passing on this benefit at no additional cost to our clients because we believe that privacy and security should not have a price tag. We offer superior solutions at exceptional rates and back that up with sincere customer care.’

Easy CGI was founded after running a successful regional Internet Service Provider, which began in 1994. Since its inception in 1998, Easy CGI has hosted over 20,000 web sites. Consistently ranked among the top 10 Web Hosting providers worldwide, Easy CGI has developed an expandable shared web hosting platform, with a control panel that allows the customer to administer every aspect of its account at any time, from any location. Easy CGI´s three tiers of shared web hosting solutions incorporate a wide range of individuals and companies, including simple to complex. Easy CGI maintains its own Data Center located in the same facility as its corporate headquarters. Extensive system monitoring allows support staff to quickly assess and resolve problems.

For more information about Easy CGI, please visit: www.easycgi.com.

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - June 28, 2007 - Server virtualization firm, SWsoft, has instituted new features in its Sitebuilder software, including promotional footers and single-sign-on capabilities for providers, as well as a file download module, one-click publishing, and Google Maps technology for end users.

According to the company, service providers may generate more revenue with new software from SWsoft, as customers ad promotional material to their websites. The newly released SWsoft Sitebuilder 4.0 Single-Sign-On (SSO) technology, is designed to enable service providers to administer Sitebuilder service plans using a single login and password. The latest release of Sitebuilder now has 12 dynamic modules, including a new File Download Module that enables site owners to easily add files to their websites, such as PDF files, documents and spreadsheets. Also, the Area Map Module was enhanced with Google Maps technology, which lets users embed interactive Google Maps in their sites and get driving directions to and from a specific address.

Joakim Frid, CEO of Crystone offered, ”We worked closely with SWsoft to develop the Promotional Footers feature in this release of Sitebuilder./ With this feature, we can add our own custom tagline to each customer’s website, increasing our overall market exposure. We can also offer our customers optional service plans based on how much of our promotional material they are willing to allow on their sites.”

Sitebuilder 4.0 features for service providers include:

• Promotional Footers – Add company name or other promotional material on each customer’s published website.
• SSO Support – Gain full access to all Sitebuilder capabilities with unified credentials through the SWsoft Plesk administration console.
• Backup/Restore – Back up and restore individual sites or an entire Sitebuilder server.
• Custom Design Template Support – Create custom templates tailored for specific markets with the ability to create one template that can be deployed across both Linux/Unix and Windows platforms.

Sitebuilder 4.0 features for end users include:

• File Download Module – Provide downloadable content on a website.
• Google Maps – Add area maps and get directions.
• Multiple Image Uploader for Image Gallery – Upload multiple images to user sites at once in the Image Gallery module.
• One-Click Publishing – Publish a website with one click after building it using new interactive text in the five-step design wizard.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft noted, ”Sitebuilder 4.0 adds new features that make it easy for hosting providers to customize service plans and easy-to-use options to attract and retain customers. Sitebuilder’s improved integration with SWsoft Plesk and use of SSO technology is a direct result of our OPEN FUSION initiative to deliver flexible, open solutions that create business opportunities for the entire hosting ecosystem of providers, end-users and software vendors.”

OPEN FUSION is an SWsoft technology initiative to improve integration among a wide range of systems, third-party applications and modules, and custom and in-house solutions. The OPEN FUSION platform enables optimized delivery of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and traditional hosting services to help ISVs and service providers take full advantage of new opportunities in the market.

SWsoft Sitebuilder was developed as a next-generation, scalable website-building application that can be integrated into any business process for hosting providers, ISPs, registrars and telecoms. Sitebuilder’s easy-to-use, five-step wizard and 12 dynamic modules make this software a powerful and flexible solution. Sitebuilder 4.0 is designed to work with hosting platforms that use the new Application Packaging Standard (APS), such as the Plesk control panel. The APS standard (www.apsstandard.com) defines a specification for software vendors to create ”pluggable” applications that can be delivered by any service provider. Sitebuilder 4.0 is immediately available for Linux/Unix and Windows platforms.

SWsoft is a global leader in virtualization and automation software that helps consumers, businesses, and service providers optimize their use of technology. The company’s software powers more than 130,000 servers and 500,000 desktops worldwide. The SWsoft product line includes Virtuozzo - the leading operating system virtualization solution, Parallels - the leading desktop virtualization product, and Plesk - the leading server control panel. Founded in 1999, the company has offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.swsoft.com.

Founded in 1999, SWsoft is a recognized leader in server automation and virtualization software. With more than 10,000 customers in over 100 countries, SWsoft’s suite of products delivers proven performance, reliability, manageability and value. With offices around the world; SWsoft is a high growth company, funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners and Intel Capital, offering comprehensive solutions – transparently integrated through the OPEN FUSION Initiative - including Virtuozzo, Plesk, SiteBuilder, HSPcomplete and PEM.

For more information about Sitebuilder 4.0, please visit: www.swsoft.com/sitebuilder.

To learn more about SWsoft, please visit: www.swsoft.com.

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 28, 2007 - Domain name registrar and web hosting company, GoDaddy.com, has reported a comprehensive growth trend in its web hosting services. According to a new survey by independent Internet analyst Netcraft, LTD, domain registrars and search portals are marking large gains in web hosting.

Rich Miller of Netcraft explained, ”This month’s data yields some of the strongest evidence yet of the power shift in Web hosting. Go Daddy continues to amass huge numbers of users on its hosting platforms.”

Netcraft has recognized GoDaddy.com as the number one domain registrar used for hosting. However, GoDaddy.com actually offers a wide variety of services.

Warren Adelman, President and Chief Operating Officer of GoDaddy.com added, ”We believe customers are choosing GoDaddy.com because it’s really a full-service web company, offering not just domain registration, but also hosting, email, SSL Certificates for Web site security, tools to create web sites and more. Hosting is an important part of what we do, and we make it easy for people - including the owners of small and medium-size businesses to go to GoDaddy.com and get everything they need to create and host a web site. We even offer an industry-first hosting community called Metropolis, where hosting customers can find free applications to set up a blog, share images and communicate through forums.”

The monthly Netcraft Web server survey looked at responses from more than 122 million web sites. Netcraft notes Go Daddy has seen enormous growth in shared hosting operations. The data also shows the overall Web hosting shift is affecting the entire hosting industry.

Mr. Miller added, ”This trend, along with the growth of social networks and image/video hosting services, is prompting deals in the hosting industry, as providers seek the scale and breadth of services to compete.”

Netcraft recently reported on two separate mergers between companies that specialize in hosting. According to Netcraft, these deals were designed to provide the combined companies with the scale and resources to compete with ”Internet titans like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and Go Daddy.”

Another independent Internet analyst, Tier1 Research, just released a report saying the mass-market Web hosting sector is in a critical period of transformation with web service firms not normally thought of as hosters now successfully entering the sector. Like the Netcraft research, the Tier1 report also notes an increase in market consolidation to deal with the issue.

Despite other companies’ merger efforts to keep up, Go Daddy continues to experience a major spike in web hosting, along with a big jump in domain names under management. Go Daddy currently has more than 22 million domains in its portfolio. Go Daddy continues to increase its popularity with customers by offering new products, affordable prices and 24-hour-a-day customer service.

Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 19 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every 2 seconds. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.

To learn more about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

Worcester, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 28, 2007 - Celebrity web hosting and services provider, Paid, Inc., has been chosen by the Professional Bull Riders of Canada, to manage its VIP Package sales in connection with the PBR Canadian National Finals.

The Professional Bull Riders Canada (PBR Canada), a business of Professional Bull Riders, Inc., has enlisted and Paid Inc., to launched and manage the ticket package sales for the three-day PBR Rocky Cup Canadian National Finals, presented by Dickies. As the biggest bull riding event that has ever appeared in Canada, the event will take place in Calgary, Alberta, November 16-18, 2007 at the Pengrowth Saddledome. The three-day event will feature the top 30 qualified riders from the PBR Canada standings and 10 of the top bull riders from the PBR’s World standings as they battle it out with the rowdiest bulls in the industry.

Jean Ryan, VP, International Business at PBR remarked, ”The PBR brand has led the industry in organizing and building the fan base for professional bull riding as a standalone sport enjoyed by millions of fans worldwide. We’re dedicated to providing bull riding’s fans in Canada with the best of the best in all areas of bull riding, and making every event a memorable one for the fans. We’ve reenlisted Paid celebrity services to assist us in developing such a program for our fans at the PBR Rocky Cup Canadian National Finals.”

Kristen Kuliga, VP of Paid celebrity services commented, ”We’re excited to offer bull riding’s fans VIP ticket packages for this world class championship event. Many fans want a much greater involvement than a standard ticket can provide. The VIP packages exclusive behind-the-scenes and meet-the-stars opportunities make for an experience of a lifetime.”

VIP ticket packages for ALL THREE DAYS of the Finals are on sale now via www.pbrcanadaviptickets.com. The VIP packages include:

• A behind-the-scenes tour of the chutes before the competition to see the world’s most notorious rompin’ stompin bulls before the show begins
• An exclusive VIP party before the competition with fellow fans
• A special appearance by a top PBR Canada rider so fans can meet him in person.
• A premium event ticket to see all the action –section 118.
• A merchandise gift bag packed full of the hottest PBR gear.
• Early access to the venue so VIPs can avoid the crowds and enjoy the ambiance.

A VIP ticket package costs $275 Canadian for a single night’s activities or $750 Canadian for the VIP treatment for all three days of the event.

Fans also can add the VIP meet and greet, pre-show party and all the other perks to their existing event tickets for $175 per day.

The PBR Rocky Cup Canadian National Finals will be pumped with hair-raising pyrotechnics, rock & roll excitement and the non-stop thrill of “Bull Riding in the Round…bulls exploding from bucking chutes at both ends of the Saddledome! The event will feature 40 of Canada’s premier riders and is expected to attract 35,000 fans.

The PBR opened an office in Calgary, Alberta in November of 2005. Beginning in 2006 the PBR has launched a series of at least forty events across Canada. Dollars earned at the Canadian events will count towards qualification to the PBR Canadian National Finals. The bull rider with the most money won at the end of year - combining regular season and finals earnings will be the one left standing at the top of the pack as the ultimate champion-PBR Canada National Champion.

Money won at all of the Canadian events is also recognized and counts toward qualification to the prestigious PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals presented by Wrangler held in Las Vegas. Upon the conclusion of the Canadian season, the top ranked rider will go on to compete and represent Canada at the PBR World Finals.

Over 100 million viewers tune in each year to the PBR on FOX, NBC, VERSUS and on a host of foreign networks across the globe. With approximately 500 hours of prime time programming annually PBR ranks among the most prolific sports on air, in addition to attracting over 1.5 million live event attendees each year with its multi-tiered event structure which includes the marquee Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler, the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company Challenger Tour, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, and the Discovery Tour, designed specifically for entry level contestants. The PBR’s governing board of directors is comprised of renowned bull riders who have developed the event into a stand alone sport which is experiencing unprecedented growth in global popularity. The PBR is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., and has over 1,200 PBR bull riders compete in more than 300 PBR sanctioned competitions in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico.

Paid, Inc.’s celebrity services provides famous people with official web sites and fan club services that include e-commerce storefronts, ticketing and fan experience packages, and web site content. The Company also sponsors autograph signing events and other sports marketing services for sports clientele. Using proprietary patent-pending technology, Paid’s patent-pending AuctionInc brand shipping calculation and auction management software and services are utilized to streamline online auctions, ecommerce and web site development and hosting.

To learn more about PBR, please visit: www.pbr.canada.com.

For more information about Paid, please visit: www.paid.com.

Redwood Shores, California - (The Hosting News) - June 27, 2007 - Online community toolbar developer, Conduit, has arranged for a new series of partnerships, with over 20 of the top web hosting companies, to provide the web hosting companies with a free, value-added offering for customers that seek increased web site traffic and revenues, in addition to better branding and user engagement.

Web hosting companies included in the new partnership, include: PowWeb, AWARDSPACE, BizLand, BlueDomino, Bravenet, DomainHost International, Easy CGI, Easyspace, eHost, EntryHost, FatCow, FreeYellow, HostCentric, HyperMart, IMOutdoors, Lycos Europe, Networks, PureHost, ReadyHosting, USA.NET, Virtual Avenue, Xeran Technologies and zoomshare have selected Conduit’s award-winning platform for inclusion in their suite of marketing tools for web hosting customers.

The Conduit-powered community marketing solution toolbar features include:

• A 24/7 real-time connection with users, no matter where they are on the web
• Improved user loyalty and stickiness
• A boost to traffic
• Bolder branding on the users’ browser
• Increased ROI and a new revenue source

Lycos Europe is one of the leading European internet destinations, operating a pan-European network of websites in seven languages, from Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.

Holger Thiemann, Product Director of Web Hosting Europe for Lycos remarked, ”With Conduit, a large number of people can be supplied simultaneously with relevant information. Especially eShop operators benefit from Conduit, because now they can not only make news and links available, but can also send their offers to their customers’ monitors, even when those customers are not on their website.”

One of the first domain and web hosting companies in the UK, Easyspace remains a force in the world of domain and web hosting today, with more than 200,000 web hosting clients.

Brian Tait, Online Marketing Manager at Easyspace offered, ”At Easyspace, we’re always looking for new ways to increase site traffic and improve user loyalty for our customers. We are delighted to offer Conduit’s powerful but free service in our suite of promotional tools. Conduit lets our customers build and deploy high-impact community toolbars that are a powerful and free way to connect with users real-time.”

Anna Love, Director of Network Marketing at web hosting company Bravenet commented, ”By offering a community toolbar as a service rather than as software, Conduit has made the breakthrough to allow Bravenet to fulfill this critical need. It’s refreshing to see Conduit’s commitment to the highest ethical and technological standards combined with great service for Bravenet and its members.”

Dan Richfield, CEO of easyCGI added, ”Community Toolbars are a wonderful way for our publishers to stay in touch with their users. The toolbar you can now build using Conduit not only has the power to promote a sense of community among visitors to your website, but also drives traffic to your website.”

Ronen Shilo, CEO of Conduit noted, ”Our partnerships with web hosting companies represent a natural convergence of values and objectives; namely, to offer website publishers effective tools to help them engage their users, drive traffic, and enhance web presence. Our community toolbars give web hosting clients a revolutionary website marketing tool, and enable web hosting companies to both extend their client offerings and establish a new revenue stream.”

Conduit has forged several strategic partners beyond web hosting companies with website design firms, digital marketing firms, companies offering marketing tools, and product partners. For more information on Conduit’s strategic partnerships or to become a partner, please visit: www.conduit.com/partner/default.aspx.

Conduit is a platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit to quickly and easily create a free community toolbar to persistently connect and engage users via the browser. Consumers can use the myConduit toolbar to search and subscribe with one click to web communities. Conduit’s goal is to deliver community loyalty and web site traffic for over 130,000 publishers, including major brands such as Major League Baseball, Fox Carolina TV, Greenpeace, RE/MAX, TechCrunch, Blogdigger and small and medium organizations in 112 countries around the globe. Conduit’s innovative search monetization model allows the service to be completely free and without adware, malware and spyware. The company is privately-held with headquarters in Israel and Redwood Shores, CA.

To learn more about the community toolbar, please visit: www.conduit.com/Wizard.

For more information about Conduit, please visit: www.conduit.com.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - June 27, 2007 - Service enablement and automation software for hosted IP and application services, Ensim Corporation, has released a new upgrade for its Ensim Pro X, Version 10.3, including support for 64-bit architecture on the Windows and Linux platforms, as well as increased control panel functionality.

In addition, the new upgrade includes installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Ensim Pro for Linux). Ensim Pro X, one of the industry’s premier server management and automation control panels, is certified for both Linux and Windows. Ensim Pro was developed to allow hosting providers, resellers and web site owners, to centrally control and automate shared hosting tasks.

Important features of the 10.3 release include:

Ensim Pro for Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)/ Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS 5. The Ensim Control Panel can now be installed on the RHEL5 and CentOS 5 operating systems.

Support for 64-bit architecture - With the latest version, 64-bit architecture is supported on the following operating systems; FC 6 (Fedora and trade; Core 6), CentOS 5.0 (Community Enterprise Operating System 5.0), CentOS 4.4, RHEL 5 (Red Hat® Enterprise Linux ES Release 5), and RHEL 4.

WebDAV support - WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol, which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote Web servers. Ensim Pro for Linux now provides WebDAV or FrontPage Server Extensions to publish sites to the Ensim Pro server.

Ensim Pro for Windows - Support for 64-bit architecture - Ensim Pro for Windows now supports 64-bit architecture on the Windows 2003 64-bit OS. This helps ISPs push the performance limits of their existing web sites facing memory and IO bottlenecks, and .NET recycles on the Win32 platform.

Support for creating and managing skins - Service providers, resellers and site administrators can now add new skins, edit skin information, preview, change, and remove skins for Ensim Pro.

Support for new versions of Power Tools - Ensim Pro now supports the new versions of Community Server 2.1 and DotNetNuke 4.4.1.

The upgraded version will also be offered as part of Ensim’s successful Ensim Pro X for Windows Promotion, that has had over 5000 downloads since January. The program held in collaboration with Microsoft, offers Ensim Pro for Windows free to use through 2007.

Dilip Khandekar, Director of Products at Ensim offered, ”With the 10.3 release, Ensim Pro is able to serve a much wider audience of hosting service providers. Support for 64-bit architecture on Linux and Windows represents a significant improvement. We’re also delighted to offer the Windows version of the upgrade free for the remaining weeks of the promotional program.”

Mark Erskine, President and CEO of Host Depot added, ”We’re really pleased about the support for a 64-bit architecture on both the Windows and Linux operating systems. Our 40,000 plus customers worldwide rely on us to provide secure, reliable and value-rich hosting services for their Web operations and Ensim Pro X provides us with many of the necessary tools to make that happen.”

Ensim Pro X, version 10.3 is available for purchase immediately.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is a provider of management software for unified communications and collaboration infrastructure. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft. For more information, contact Ensim at 1-877-693-6746 or 1-408-496-3700 outside the United States.

To learn more about the Ensim Pro X for Windows Promotion, please visit: www.ensim.com/proxwin/mspromo07/index.html.

For more information about Ensim Pro X, version 10.3, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/pro.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

London, United Kingdom - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 27, 2007 - Web hosting provider and domain name registration services firm, Arsys, has deployed the ArcSight ESM security and compliance management solution, to protect customer records. The London firm, has been engaged to provide services for the Spanish firm’s over 140,000 customers and 435,000 registered domains.

According to Arsys, it will be the first Spanish company in its sector to adopt market-leading SIEM technologies. ArcSight’s partner in Spain, Breyer, was instrumental in securing this deal and will be responsible for the implementation of this project over the coming months. Offering a full suite of market-leading top quality services over the Internet produces an extremely demanding IT environment with a plethora of platforms that Arsys needs to ensure remain protected from security threats. Managing the security threats for such a large data flow over more than 1,500 devices places a strong emphasis in real-time detection and the need to react quickly to security threats. An extensive review of all available SIEM technologies on the market led to a clear decision - that ArcSight ESM, as the market leading solution, was best placed to meet its needs.

Sven Olof Sandstrom, Head of IT security at Arsys remarked, ”We pride ourselves on providing our customers with exceptional service, which includes delivering a robust security infrastructure to prevent breaches and leaks of data. After extensive research we have chosen ArcSight ESM because it provided a continuous and comprehensive view of risks and real-time detection while maintaining performance across a wide range of platforms. The implementation will improve our security infrastructure with the latest state of the art security technologies. This will enable us to service our customers to the high levels they expect, while giving them peace of mind that their data is protected with ArcSight ESM.”

ArcSight ESM is a comprehensive enterprise security platform. By centrally collecting and analysing security data from heterogeneous devices, ArcSight helps customers worldwide to manage information risk and protect critical assets. Organisations use ArcSight ESM to discover risks, correlate relevant security information, assess vulnerabilities and communicate compliance to stakeholders and customers. ArcSight ESM provides security organisations with comprehensive, real time, expert security information analysis and remediation capabilities.

Jose M. Bermúdez, CEO at Breyer remarked, ”Arsys has built an excellent reputation for providing top quality service to its customers and wanted to keep on providing the best security infrastructure to more than 140,000 customers. The decision-making process was intensive with all possible solutions considered, but in the end only ArcSight’s offering met all the requirements. We look forward to working with Arsys as we proceed with the implementation. Having worked with ArcSight for over 4 years, we are more than confident that their solution will help Arsys to keep fulfilling its responsibility of guaranteeing the protection of thousands of hosted assets.”

ArcSight is a provider of security and compliance solutions that intelligently identify and mitigate business risk and deliver a centralised view of enterprise-wide events across heterogeneous infrastructures. This real time and historic view into external attacks, insider threats and regulatory compliance provides enterprises, MSSPs and government agencies with the intelligence and response capabilities required to effectively protect and manage their networks and their businesses. ArcSight and the ArcSight logo are trademarks of ArcSight, Inc.

Arsys is Spain’s leading company in domain name registration and web hosting services, and one of the main industry leaders in Europe. To date, the company has more than 435,000 domain names registered, more than 150,000 customers, employs over 250 people and provides services to more than a hundred countries through arsys.es, arsys.fr and arsys.pt. About Breyer Founded in 1997, Breyer is the leader in the Spanish market for high-end SIM projects. After over 4 years partnering with ArcSight, Breyer’s engineers have developed a very high level of expertise to maximize results in complex projects for clients among the top 20 Spanish companies.

To learn more about
ArcSight, please visit: www.arcsight.com.

For more information about Arsys, please visit: www.arsys.net.