Hackers!!!

There have been a series of attacks on the web by the group calling themselves Sarbot511. In fact it wasn't websites specifically that were targeted but the hosting providers.

One company that became victim to these attacks tried to reset their servers but the new severs where also compromised. In the end they announced that, "Due to this incident, we cannot sustain the financial damaged caused by it. We have decided to close our services effective October 31, 2009. Our servers will remain online until October 31, 2009. Afterwards everything will be shutdown."

One casualty seems to be Earley Christian Fellowship as it has dropped out of Google’s index probably because Google saw it was hacked!!! The webmaster is hoping that in a few days it will be back in again!!!

Google Goes Square; Search Results in a Spreadsheet Form

Google has announced a new feature from the Google Labs which builds search results into a table like in a spreadsheet.



If you want a list of all the capital cities in Europe you can enter a query like 'capital cities in Europe' and Google Squared will build a spreadsheet like results page where you can add rows and columns and build up a table of your results.

Read more here: Google Goes Square; Search Results in a Spreadsheet Form

(Via Gaj-It.com - UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping.)

.ME Domains Hit Quarter-Million Milestone

The .ME Registry announced this week the ccTLD has reached 250,000 domains registered. Montenegro’s .ME Registry has seen significant growth since it launched the domain extension worldwide just over one year ago.

The rapid growth following the relaunch of the .ME ccTLD is a testament to a strong registry behind the ccTLD, in this case Go Daddy, good marketing and a catchy domain extension.

Read more here: .ME Domains Hit Quarter-Million Milestone - DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry

Google Opens $600M Data Center in Iowa

Search engine giant Google announced on Tuesday it opened its new $600 million date center in Council Bluffs, Iowa bringing jobs and opportunities, according to a report by the Associated Press.
First announced in June 2007, the 60-acre site in the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation's new business park is located across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska.
At the time of the announcement, Google said the new data center would create 200 new jobs.

Read more here: Google Opens $600M Data Center in Iowa - Web Hosting Industry News | Daily Web Hosting News and Web Host Interviews

Network Attached Storage News

Following the success of the Learn FreeNAS blog Gary Sims has started a new, wider and more general blog about Network Attached Storage. As well as covering FreeNAS this new blog will cover other NAS products (both free and commerical) including OpenFiler, NexentaStor and NASlite.

The blog will also cover news and tips about the various NAS technologies including iSCSI.

You can find the new blog at Network Attached Storage News.

YP.com Sold for $3.85m

LiveDeal has sold the domain name yp.com to YellowPages.com LLC for cash totalling US$3,850,000.

Obviously Yellow Pages, part of the AT&T conglomerate, is an ideal purchaser of the domain name and is currently using the domain name as a redirect to yellowpages.com.

Read more here: YP.com Sold for $3.85m

(Via DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry.)

New Virtualization News Blog

A new blog called "Virtualization News" has been launched. The site concentartes on the increasing popular virtualization technology.

Using virtualization a system manager can run several virtual computers on one single piece of hardware. This allows for server consolidation as well as providing an excellent resource for testing new versions of system software without endangering the live systems.

Using a virtualization product like VMware or VirtualBox a single PC can run a number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris/OpenSolaris and OpenBSD.

The site covers VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallels, Xen, KVM and much more.