This week has been a busy one for the web hosting industry that includes new products, legal rulings and even a major outage for a web hosting provider.
In response to the urging of Julius Baer of Swiss Bank, a US judge issued an injunction to pull Wikileaks offline. Dynadot, the domain registrar for the company, suspended the domain but issues are arising for many about free speech. The site continues to operates because of work with PRQ and the Belgian and Indian site versions still work normally.
Another legal decision resulting in an injunction will be disputed by Danish ISP Tele 2. The injunction ordered a block from users accessing Pirate Bay because the International Federal of the Phonographic industry said the site was being used to download copyrighted files. Tele 2 obeyed the injunction then met with other ISPs ultimately resolving to dispute this injuction.
Several new products were launched this week. Google launched the beta of AdSense for video to help drive revenue to video content. Mosso, Rackspace spin-off, launched a new version of Hosted Cloud for maximum scalability. Lunarpages upgraded their Business and Basic hosting plans and now offer unlimited hosting, following the launch of Yahoo’s similar unlimited package promoting unlimited transfer and storage.
As operators engage in legal battle to keep their sites up and products are launched by others, many found their sites were down. An outage began for Globat on Wednesday evening and lasted through most of Thursday. The company will offer a complete explanation for the outage one they get all customers back online.
Finally, the largest impact is expected from the Wikileaks development this week because the ruling is scheduled for review on Friday, February 29. This controversy is sure to result in interesting web hosting business developments.
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