Did you ever wonder why some hosting companies are cheaper than others? One of the cheaper solutions out there is Server Beach with dedicated servers starting at $79/month. What do you get for that money? Well, today working DNS server would not be part of the bargain. Their ironically named “GeoDNS” DNS service has fallen victim to a single hardware failure “in (their) San Antonio datacenter“, according to VP Robert Miggens.
San Antonio NameServer switch down

No updates since Friday on the RegisterFly registrar disaster when they reported new problems with the old owner hacking their website and systems. Can it only get better from here?
www.RegisterFlies.com

The RegisterFly disaster is getting better and worse at the same time. Their management team has finally stepped up but so has ICANN. The new CEO has mortgaged his house to fix the problems, whils ICANN is threatening to revoke their certification as a registrar. This all started when RegisterFly illegally transferred their customer domains from eNom to themselves. Now the old CEO is ousted and sites likeRegisterFlies are making sure the customers are not forgotten.
With RegisterFly in Chaos, ICANN Threatens Action

Eric Sinrod of the legal firm Duane Morris writes about the increasing chance of not losing domain names to trademark holders under the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
Big names may not prevail in domain disputes

From an outage e-mail “…the generator became unstable due to the encountered temperatures and began to lose power. We decided – in the best interest – to perform an emergency shutdown of the entire Data Center power grid and to resolve all power related problems.”
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