Following Events took place in the month of January, 2005. 

• Natural Calamity and Some Notable Noble Works:
  • December 2004 experienced a deadly drama of Tsunami engulfing more than a billion people from Asia. Many industrial houses came forward to help the affected people and Lunarpage was one of them. They offered Tsunami Site Hosting especially for this purpose. Apart from this Agrawal, iWeb etc. also contributed their best to this noble work.
  • Apart from above one more noble and remarkable work was done by PowWeb who donated $6,056 to Los Angeles Hospital.
• Take Over:
  • In the major move IBM Acquired Coario for $182 billion.
• Additional Services Introduced by Some Hosting Companies:
  • Aplus.Net Launched Server Monitoring Service to reduce Server Downtime.
  • VeriSign Released New Email Security.
  • Directi Offered $1.11 .Info Domain Registration.
• Celebration:
  • Intel Celebrated 10^th Anniversary of its Reseller Channel Program.

Following Events took place in the month of February, 2005.

• New Openings:
  • Verizon, leading provider of wireless communication decided to open a new Call Centre in North Charleston, its cost about $25 Million. Company said that it is useful contribution to bring up 1,100 employees by the end of December 2005.
  • New MSN Search engine was introduced by Microsoft corp., it was First-ever search engine built from Microsoft corp.
  • BulkRegister introduced new facilities to their customer; they were introduced Private Whois facilities.
  • Mozilla launched FireFox security, which avoids Phishing Attacks.
  • Blackhost.com – The Irish web hosting provider decided to open a new network at Amsterdam. It was first Irish based hosting company which expanded into Europe.
• Monopoly of ICANN will be finished:
  • U.N. committee decided that they replace authority and power of ICANN into international committee. ICANN is a California based committee, which has authority for Domain Registration.

Following Events took place in the month of March, 2005.

• Major Updates and New Launching:
  • In the major updates, Microsoft decided to update Microsoft Windows 2003 Server with new features, and IBM decided to increase the power of world’s Fastest Super computer.
  • Mozilla launched new service, Mozilla China. Finally mozilla decided to launch its plan into china. Mozilla China will be a Chinese version of Mozilla Web site.
  • Destra.com launched New Search Engine Optimization Service. Destra.com is Yahoo’s co-branded web hosting company.
  • Zafel.com launched new web site www.promotemylink.com for search engine optimization.
• Hack attack:
  • A large-scale hack attack occurred; the target was shared hosting provider’s server where hack attack affects many sites. Hack attack occurred with huge distribution of malicious code. The hacker used dynamic DNS for avoiding ISP detection.
• Company announcement:
  • In the major announcement, 1&1 (1and1.com), Web host provider and Domain registrar declared that they had registered 5 millionth domains in the month of March 2005.
  • Another great announcement from CroosMap, one of the largest gateways of Christian websites. Company offered 10,000 free Hosting Accounts for Christian Sites.

  Following Events took place in the month of April, 2005.

• New TLDs approved by ICANN:
  • As all expected, ICANN board announced in April that it has officially approved new .Job and .Travel TLDs. In future ICANN will look for .Asia, .Tel and .XXX Top Level Domains approval.
• Go Daddy on the Top!
  • Web hosting provider and Domain Registrar GoDaddy.com officially announced that, it had taken over the Domain market and became World’s Number 1 domain registrar. GoDaddy.com offers .Com, .Net, .Org, .Info, .Biz and .Us domains. GoDaddy.com sold its first domain name registration in 2000.
  • Another imperative announced by Go Daddy, it had decided to open its third call centre at Gilbert, Arizona.
• WHIR TV:
  • Web Hosting Industries Review (Thewhir.com), Web hosting news provider introduced ‘WHIR TV’, it’s not a TV set, but online TV show that represents latest news from hosting industries. Company said that it is a great experienced for up coming generation. Now set back and enjoy Web TV on every Saturday at: www.thewhir.com/TV.

Following Events took place in the month of May, 2005.

• Google went down!
  • Can you believe it? But it was true. World’s number 1 search engine Google went down for 15 Minute on 7^th May, 2005. According to reports Google went down between 6:45 to 7:00 p.m. EST. Google also lost their services, including Google news, Gmail and Froogle. Google is the world’s number 1 search engine and hits over 200 million searches a day.         
• New Openings:
  • One of the Major openings for the month of May was, Host Color (Hostcolor.com), launched its new Host Color web site for Europe region. This new service will offer hosting and business solution in Europe region. Data centre for new web site is located at Amsterdam Redbus.
  • Another new opening in Tokyo, this time Web host and Software solution provide Swsoft came forward. Company opened its new branch in Tokyo. 
• Exciting offers!
  • Month of May was full with some exiting offers by some hosting companies. Started with Globat, it offered Free Mother’s Day Hosting. Company introduced its new “When Pigs Fly” plan for celebrating Mother’s day.
  • Aplus.net – Leading Web host and Designing provider, offered new SEO marketing tool. Company announced six new SEO tool that help for developing business.
• New Agreement:
  • North Carolina based PepsiCo bottling firm agreement with hostsolutions.com, for providing collocation services to the company. Apart from these PepsiCo is third largest beverage supplier in the United States.
  • IMAX Corporation, signed contract with AT&T (att.com) for providing secure hosting services.

Following Events took place in the month of June, 2005.

• Award Winning Performance:
  • Month of June rose with Award Winning performances in Hosting Industries. It was started with DiscountASP.net - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider awarded with ‘Best ASP.net Web Hosting Award’. This award was announced by Visual Studio Magazine.
  • Another great achievement was made by Managed hosting provider Rackspace, company awarded with ‘Best Customer Service Organization’ by American Business Award. Award Known as ‘Stevie Awards’. The ABA (American Business Awards) proclaimed that Rackspace served 100% support to their clients.
  • Apart from these Network World Magazine announced that, IP solution provider Metainfo (Metainfo.com) awarded for ranked first for security and second for its software for IP address management. At the last Canadian hosting company Hostopia (Hostopia.com) wins Canada’s fastest growing company award. 
• New Releases:
  • In the major new releases Google released Sitemap facility to their world wide clients, .Job domains extension launched successfully, and AOL (American Online) launched Free Email services.
• Yamaha meets TELEHOUSE:
  • Yamaha Music Inc signed an agreement with Collocation provider firm TELEHOUSE (telehouse.com), for providing Collocation facilities and managed services. Yamaha is one of the largest manufacturers of musical instruments.
• Celebration:
  • US internet, internet and hosting provider celebrated its 10^th anniversary. US internet, has been working since 1995.

Following Events took place in the month of July, 2005.

• Yet again ICANN in the headline:
  • ICANN is well known for the domain registration, and also famous newscaster in the hosting industries. In the month of July they came with new announcement, that they made .MOBI extension for Mobile application. This new .MOBI extension will be helpful for Mobile industries. Apart from these ICANN officially suggested Directi as .Travel extension registrar.
• Chinese Bank signed Cisco and IBM:
  • The Agricultural Bank of China choose Cisco and IBM, for networking solution and data centre solution for Beijing respectively. Apart from agreement Cisco will provide networking related services and IBM is responsible for providing On Demand Operating Environment.
• Take over:
  • In a major move Internet America bought TopGun Telecom and VeriSign take on iDefense, a security organization for $40 Million. 
• New services Introduced by some hosting companies:
  • Compulogic introduced one more service. It announced new GPRS web servers. Greatmail increased its storage limit for mail accounts.
  • Web hosting and domain registration provider AIT announced that they had created an online auction site for domain registration. According to company new site will be very useful for the bulk domain registration and hosting business.

Following Events took place in the month of August, 2005.

• Now Oracle ready for Linux:
  • A very important announcement was made by Oracle (Oracle.com), that now Oracle is now ready for Linux environment. Though Oracle is one of the leading RDBMS systems and Linux is one of the famous Operating System in the world so, this contribution will provide Linux environment for Oracle application.
• Intel and Yahoo! prepared themselves to play in Chinese Market!
  • Intel Corporation, one of the leading chip maker announced that they invests up to $200 million in China. This investment was made from Intel Capital China Technology Fund. These are the first investment from the Capital Fund. Intel Capital was worked in China since 1998.
  • Yahoo! – World’s best free email service provider entered in a deal with Chinese web site AliBaba.com. The deal was $1 Billion investment and to take 40% shares of Chinese company AliBaba.com.
• Sun opened a Data Centre in Europe:
  • Sun Microsystems opened a new Data Centre in Scotland. This data centre will be used for remotely mange the customer’s systems. Sun decided that they will open new data centre in India or China within next year.
• Company News:
  • In the month of August Lunarpage announced that they host up to 80,000 sites on their servers. Apart from this, Great news from AIT, Web hosting provider that they offered over 100 new features with hosting account.

Following Events took place in the month of September, 2005.

• Natural Calamity and Some Notable Noble Works:
  • September 2005 experienced a deadly drama of Katrina Hurricane engulfing more than a billion people from United States. Many industrial houses came forward to help the affected people and Bulk Register was one of them. Company announced that they will automatically renew domain names which expire in September. Apart from this XO Communications announced that company and their employees are donating $140,000 to the American Red Cross.
  • Another noble contribution by ChiliPepperweb.net, company announced that they offering four months of free hosting to any organization in the area affected by natural calamities.
• Go Daddy offered All time Low Domain Prices:
  • Month of September was a special month for domain registration; Go Daddy announced its all time low domain price at $1.99, with purchasing Go Daddy’s product. Product included SSL certificate, Hosting Package and Shopping Carts. This offer was only for the month of September, 2005. 
• Some Notable deals of the month!
  • Some notable dealing took place during the month of September, 2005 viz. VIP.com was sold for $1.4 million, which was the highest rate for a domain reselling during the year.
  • Another great deal was made by Managed hosting provider Verio.com. Company signed up an agreement with Yahoo and Google for promoting their web site and provide support to their customers. Apart from this Motorola launched Mobile application Hosting service.

Following Events took place in the month of October, 2005.

• Hacker Attacks on FireFox:
  • In the month of October, Hackers came forward in action again. This time the target was Marketing Web site of FireFox browser (spreadfirefox.com). Hackers directly attacked to the server where site was hosted. This was a second incidence where hackers took down successfully spreadfirefox.com. According to the FireFox, site was down for few weeks and a message “Spreadfirefox is currently not available”, was displayed on site.
• News from Company’s desk:
  • A great milestone was achieved by Go Daddy in the month of October. Now, the company announced that it had registered over 10 Million domains! Go Daddy was entered in the domain market in 2000. Now, Go Daddy became world’s largest industry for Domain Registration.
  • In the other hand Brinkster (brinnkster.com) was also joined in the party with achieving a landmark. Bringster.com signed up its 2 millionth customer in September. Brinkster will celebrate this event by satisfying its 2 Millionth customer with a special gift. Brinkster.com was started in 1999 and provides hosting facilities in over 130 different countries.
• MOU Signed By Google And NASA:
  • NASA and Google came forward with a major commitment. Both had signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). MOU covered Technology, Research and Development activity area. These activities contain huge scale data management, computing and bio-technology research. According to NASA, this agreement will shows number of potential benefits to the space program.
• Take Over:
  • In the major take over VeriSign Inc bought Moreover Technology. The deal was valued at about $30 Million. Moreover Technology is a web based slot machine of online material and News.

Following Events took place in the month of November, 2005.

• New Launching:
  • Google.com – Search engine giant announced in November that they were ready for launching a new free service, Google Base. According to Google, Google base service will work like a database; user can upload or download items from it. The new service is available at base.google.com.
  • Now, its turn for Microsoft – One of the giant software providers of the world. Microsoft announced that they will launch a free web site hosting program. This new service provides free hosting with technical tool and resources.
  • Sun Microsystems is not far away from Microsoft. Sun also launched Email Service, Sun Secure Mail. According to Sun Microsystems new Email service is a fully managed and secured service to send email from existing Webmail application. New email service was build with combination of Echoworx (Echoworx.com) and Lucent Technology (Lucent.com).
  • Apart from this, ModernBill announced that, ModernBill now ready for Supporting Gaming Server. 
• CEO Resigned from Savvis:
  • Web hosting provider Savvis (Savvis.com) announced in November that, Mr. Robert McCormick had decided to resign from CEO Job and company accepted the resignation. Now Chief Officer Jack Finlayson, act as new CEO for company. According to reports, the actual reason behind resignation was unpaid bill of $241,000 by McCormick. This bill was charged from American Express Card and went unpaid since two years.
• Noble work by Aplus.net:
  • California based Web hosting Provider firm Aplus.net announced that, it has donated its services to Children’s Charity. ‘The John Thomas Foundation’, Children’s charity helps children with familial environment. Donated service includes 3 years of hosting and a design package. 

 Following Events took place in the month of December, 2005.

• Oracle joined hands with IBM:
  • One of the major moves in the industries was Oracle collaborates with IBM AIX. Two giants are met together and amazed the entire IT industry. According to Oracle it will be good future for Oracle applications with AIX 5L. Customer well get benefit in the area of virtualization, security and platform portability from this collaboration. In the other hand IBM said that, IBM has became the leader in Unix market place and partnership allows Oracle to take some extra advantage from market that they lost last past years.
• Thawte in new look!
  • Thawte (Thawte.com) is one of the leading providers of Digital Security Certificate in hosing industries. Now they launched new exiting sites in German and French language. This site will extract German and French customer for purchase SSL certificates in their own language. Currently Thawte provides 256-bit capable SSL certificate. Thawte has issued over 600,000 SSL certificates and over 1,000,000 personal certificates to the customers.