Strong Growth in Top US and European Hosting Providers
3rd November, 2003
| Top Hosting Providers By Growth in Hostnames, Sept 03 to October 03 | |||||
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| Hoster Parent | Sep 03 | Oct 03 | Growth | % Growth | Primary Region |
| 1&1 Internet AG | 3,293,408 | 3,443,442 | 150,034 | 4.6% | Europe |
| GoDaddy Inc | 1,373,672 | 1,467,264 | 93,592 | 6.8% | America |
| IP Exchange GmbH | 57,242 | 128,835 | 71,593 | 125.1% | Europe |
| EV1Servers.net | 550,808 | 601,393 | 50,585 | 9.2% | America |
| Strato AG | 1,867,652 | 1,910,975 | 43,323 | 2.3% | Europe |
| NTT/Verio | 1,090,419 | 1,130,789 | 40,370 | 3.7% | America |
| Host Europe | 492,388 | 526,971 | 34,583 | 7.0% | Europe |
| Yahoo! | 486,868 | 515,306 | 28,438 | 5.8% | America |
| ThePlanet.com | 71,975 | 96,157 | 24,182 | 33.6% | America |
| Fasthosts | 352,224 | 373,281 | 21,057 | 6.0% | Europe |
The massive 1&1 Internet AG continues to gain the largest number of hostnames (+151K), followed by GoDaddy (+93.5K), which launched a new shared hosting service in August, IP Exchange GmBH (+71.6K) and EV1Servers.Net (50.6K).
Domain Registrars Eye Shared Hosting for Expansion
26th October, 2003
Leading the charge is Go Daddy, which over the past two years has emerged as the pacesetter in the domain name market. Go Daddy's shared hosting business has grown rapidly since August 5, when it beefed up the account features on its hosting plans and cut prices to as low as $3.95 a month.
Sustained DDoS Wobble Prominent Weblogs
24th October, 2003
The DDoS attacks appear to have targeted Internet Haganah, which seeks to identify web sites with terrorist links and then lobbies hosting providers to shut down the suspect sites. Internet Haganah operator Aaron Weisburd says his site was targeted by Al Qaeda sympathizers, while reps from Hosting Matters declined to identify either the target or attacker. Hosting Matters was flooded by up to 150 megabytes of data per second on Oct. 16, leaving most clients offline for much of that day and again on Oct. 20 and 21.
French Ruling on Google Ads Has Implications for Web Host Marketing
22nd October, 2003
A French court last week fined Google France 70,000 euros (a little over $80,000) for allowing advertisers in its popular AdWords program to buy text ads tied to French phrases for "travel market" and "airflight market" which had been trademarked by two travel agencies, Luteciel and Viaticum.
ThePlanet.com Fastest Growing Hosting Provider by Active Sites over last six months
13th October, 2003
A table of the Hosting Providers who grew the fastest over the 6 months to October 2003 is provided below. Companies are included in the filter if they started April 2003 with more than 10,000 active sites (as this removes those which grew simply through starting with a small base), and had growth of more than 50% over the period.
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1&1 Internet opens in the US with 3 year free shared hosting promotion
9th October, 2003
As often, opinions in the hosting forums are all over the place on the impact of 1&1’s offer, ranging from” the end of the American hosting industry as we’ve known it” to “they’ll close within a year”.
It was surprising how many people in the US hosting industry simply hadn’t heard of 1&1. In terms of hostnames found by the Web Server Survey, 1&1 is the largest hoster in the world by a margin, and hosts fully 18% of the hostnames in Europe, making it plain why they felt the need to expand into the US.