I woke up today to complaints that one of my websites was down. It was hosted at Host Gator, who’s motto is “we eat up the competition”. When I called them, they said that my entire account had been deleted off of their web and DNS servers without explanation. Perhaps their motto could be “we eat up users’ accounts”? They refunded me three months automatically, so I must give them some credit for being proactive. However, the fact that they don’t back up anything on their servers is where my greatest concern lies.
Bad Webhosting

Not a week goes by without another two hour outage at DreamHost. Again they are dealing with network issues, but they are getting better about the proactive communication with customers. Chatter on the status messageboard is reminding some shocked new customers about the 97 day money-back-guarantee.
DreamHost Outage

Sedo is the next venue to sell some of the premium .MOBI domains. What makes this remarkable is the switch from “premium” live auctions such as TRAFFIC to the less exciting, and less profitable online auctions. It is possible that the poor showing at the last TRAFFIC where only a single premium .MOBI was sold because of the high reserve prices. Some of the 100 domains on auction at Sedo don’t even have reserve prices. It will be interesting to see how this auction performs because it will likely affect .MOBI estimates and private party pricing.
.MOBI auction at Sedo

Fabulous has gone public with the final release of Fabulous+ putting numbers to the madness: 15 templates and over 4000 images. The new interface for previews is the coolest part, and encourages viewing multiple designs.
Fabulous Plus launch

More router IOS problems at DreamHost. The question that needs to be answered is why a single problem with their network equipment can take down their entire network infrastructure? I think they are a great group of people, but as a customer the ongoing network problems and lack of phone support are hard to stomach.
Network Problems – router issues persist

The march to add IDN TLD’s takes another step with IANA’s board approval to create IDN .test TLD’s and insert them into the root servers.
IDN .Test Root-Zone Evaluation Finalized

NameDrive was taken out by a massive DDOS attack last week. What makes this particularly interesting is the length of the outage, approximately 24 hours. Most parking companies are dealing with DOS attacks on a daily basis, but the larger companies have better systems in place to deal with them. While the outage was reimbursed, it’s another reason to park with larger companies who can mitigate the risks or at least compensate members for their problems.
Internet ramraiders rear-end domain parking service

How comfortable would you be knowing that your webhosting company wants your website? I would think them savvy and smart, but I wouldn’t think that they were really looking out for my website’s best interest. The domain space is so sketchy that webhosting companies should be on their best behavior. There is only so much room for Direcnic’s and RegisterFly’s.
“DOMAINS FOR SALE? WE’RE INTERESTED.”

DreamHost is down again. But this time, they’ve turned off customer comments on the DreamHostStatus webspage because they realized that their customers were taking out all their frustration on the appropriate party.
“DreamHost is experiencing a return of network problems”

A lot of angry DreamHost customers arguing on the DreamHostStatus.com forums. Looks like DreamHost network was down for about 3.5 hours, starting around 11:15 AM PT. No word yet from DH on the cause.
DreamHost reports “Network Slowness”