GoDaddy announced that after a lengthy battle over content, the 14th ad submitted by the company was approved by ABC Television's standards and practices division to air during Super Bowl XL.

MonsterHosting introduced its new SHOUTcast web hosting service, aimed at tapping into a growing number of organizations utilizing the technology to reach their customers. A fully-manageable control panel will be provided to customers to administrate their SHOUTcast accounts.

Hosting Connecticut LCC has developed a new affiliate program, wherein web site owners receive commissions by sending customers to Hosting Connecticut LLC.com. After a free registration process, affiliates can control most aspects of their affiliate advertising campaigns. In addition, affiliates have access to real-time online performance and commission reports.

BroadSpire, a web hosting services and managed IT services provider, has announced the introduction of 'Small Business Web Stores', a series of e-commerce solutions designed for small business owners. According to BroadSpire's Suresh Srinivasan, Small Business Web Stores are 'the perfect combination of low-cost, ease-of-use, flexibility and scalability necessary for today's small business owners.'

WebStream Internet Solutions announced that it has developed a new user interface for tracking organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO). According to the company, the tool allows clients to track SEO marketing by monitoring SEO rankings, sales and shopping cart habits.

Spoono.com has introduced reseller hosting capabilities to its line of web hosting offerings. For a monthly price of $29.95, the reseller plan includes 5 Gigabytes of disk space and 200 Gigabytes of data transfer and gives users access to a WebHost Manager account in which they may define their own web hosting plan sizes and create hosting accounts for up to 150 websites in their allotted space.

Host Color announced the integration of support for PHP 4 and PHP 5 scripting in its new NextColor control panel. Improved SSH capability is another feature of the control panel.

Biztology announced the launch of its new server control panel, Cube Panel. The hosting automation solution supports both Linux and Windows operating systems and offers a fully customizable and multi-lingual control tool.

IDG Netherlands, a technology media, research and event company, has signed a multi-year contract with Dedigate, Terremark Worldwide Inc's managed hosting subsidiary. IDG's strategic business expansion via online channels would be served by Dedigate's Amsterdam environment designed specially for IDG Netherlands and its business growth, according to IDG's Raimon Gort.

Spider Technologies, Inc. has announced the launch of a new web hosting division, Spider Tech Hosting. Its services include a range of hosting packages, database creation and storage, domain registration, Blog facilities, RSS Feeds and XML Streaming, and advertising program tracking.

Steadfast Networks' new data center at the Lakeside Technology Center owned by Digital Realty Trust, Inc in Chicago, USA is expected to become operational in January 2006. Key objectives of the new center are to ensure good service and support business expansion.

Swiftroute will move their server infrastructure to Equinix's Singapore Internet Business Exchange (IBX) centre. Swiftroute will benefit from the aggregation of networks operating in the centre, as well as the industry-leading security, environmental and physical infrastructure of the IBX.

NetStrategies, a provider of Internet services has launched a new website, GoHost, offering web hosting services to small businesses. GoHost features an SEO toolkit, website polls, photo gallery, estore, document manager, site banner management, site search, collaborative publishing, site calendar and CRM application.

Internet America Inc. announced the appointment of Jennifer S. LeBlanc as its new CFO. The company also announced its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to Houston from Dallas.

Fidelity Assets announced that it has partnered with Pullan Communications to offer its customers web hosting options alongside its more familiar search engine marketing, web site development and email marketing services. Fidelity Assets will help Pullan Communications' real estate agent clients get targeted traffic sent to their websites from Google, Yahoo!, AOL and MSN.

Web hosting provider HostMySite.com has announced that it has attained Gold Certified status with competency in Networking Infrastructure Solutions and Advanced Infrastructure Solutions from the Microsoft Partner Program, as recognition for its expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology. The range of benefits that accompany this status is expected to help maximize HostMySite's efficiency.

Affinity Internet has announced the launch of its new 'web hosting brand', Gate.com. Its Linux solutions include Symantec Brightmail Antispam and two terabytes of data transfer, while its Windows ASP.NET 2.0 Solutions include Microsoft Windows Servers and back-end systems, managed code and control panel interfaces written in ASP.NET 2.0.

Incognito Networks has announced that an agreement to acquire SCPanel.net, makers of the Shoutcast control panel. Incognito will maintain SCPanel developers and continue to release new Shoutcast features.

XO Communications, Inc. announced that it has secured a three-year contract to provide voice and data services to the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. XO will deploy communications solutions for the Rangers at Ameriquest Field in Arlington, for the Stars at their Frisco headquarters and at three Dr Pepper StarCenters located across the Metroplex, increasing voice capacity by 25% and doubling available bandwidth.

Swedish web hosting company, Loopia, has launched a scheme to raise one million dollars for the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which develops the Firefox web browser.One million pixels of advertising space on 'HelpFirefox.com' will be sold for $1 each.

Wave2Wave Communications has announced its acquisition of assets belonging to IntelliSpace Inc. in New York, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The acquisition allows Wave2Wave to offer a vast array of services ranging from web and email hosting, wired and wireless connections, VOIP, community and municipal Wi-Fi infrastructures, and office networking.

DemoWolf, which specializes in online branded demonstrations for the web hosting industry, announced its partnership with ResellersToday, a web hosting company specializing in reseller plans. DemoWolf flash tutorials demonstrating common tasks are expected to significantly reduce the number of support tickets filed by ResellerToday's customers.

Sitestar Corporation has announced its purchase of Netrover Inc., effective January 1, 2006. The acquisition will strengthen Sitestar's balance sheet and increase its presence in North America, by opening Canada as a new market for its services.

Los Angeles-based Globat.com(R), the world-leader in Performance Web Hosting(TM), today announced that the company is happy to see that Internet 'Pixel King' Alex Tew and his now world-famous MillionDollarHomepage.com is only 1,000 pixels away from achieving his mission to become the first pixel millionaire on the Internet. The young British student and entrepreneur founded MillionDollarHomepage.com just over 4 months ago with the goal to sell pixels of his homepage space to advertisers for a dollar each to fund his university education. Globat.com was one of the very first major supporters of Alex's idea and the investment has paid off for the firm multifold.

A six-month investigation into 'pay-per- click' programs by Kessler International has revealed shocking results.

Best 10 Web Hosting, a shared web hosting directory, announced the creation of a new section called 'Responsible & Honest Hosts'. Hosting companies in offering discounted services, free periods of service and other promotional services to college and university students and professors as well as to nonprofit organizations or initiatives will be featured in this section.

GlobalWebBrands announced the formation of three new business units in place of the current Consumer Services and Business Services units. The new units, namely, Web Hosting, Web Services, and Telecom units will enable the company to focus on increased operational efficiency.

Exabytes announced that it has upgraded its Linux hosting plan, increasing webspace and bandwidth while reducing the price. It has also added a multiple-domain feature to the plan.

Covad and Verizon have announced an agreed settlement that 'resolves all pending litigation and disputes' between them. Covad has entered into business agreements with Verizon and MCI, which is in the final stages of merger with Verizon, that lay the foundation of a'new, positive relationship' with Verizon.

Interland has announced the acquisition of Web Internet, LLC (Web.com) and Web Service Company, Inc for $4.8 million. Included in the assets are the domain name Web.com, web hosting business, accredited registrar business and trademark rights. Current Web.com CEO, Will Pemble, will join Interland as an Executive Vice President.

C I Host has upgraded its email servers to provide 1 GB storage space per account. This upgrade, with other recent tools to keep email free of spam, phishing mails and viruses, makes W:Mail an 'efficient, safe and productive business tool'.

WebHostingBuzz.com has launched the Intense Web Site Hosting solution, designed with the power user in mind. Only thirty-five Intense Hosting accounts are placed per Dual xeon or Dual Opteron server, ensuring that all clients on the server get full access to the available resources. Servers are carefully optimized for performance applications such as high traffic sites, large MySQL based sites and scripting heavy sites.

As part of a seasonal promotion celebrating the holiday period, EnCirca announced that it will offer free web hosting for all '.pro' domain names. Targeted professionals for the '.pro' domain include architects, financial analysts and planners, dentists, educators, lawyers, human resource experts, and insurance agents.

UK-based web hosting provider Nicnames ahs revamped its web site, applying modern coding techniques. The new, improved web site will 'reflect the improvement and new product offerings of the Nicnames service'.

Web hosting company GoDaddy.com has announced that its web-based email will provide greater email security to protect users from unauthorized interception. Go Daddy's email service 'not only provides an envelope, but it also adds a chain and padlock' to email in the form of its secure certificate and Rijndael encryption.

CBeyond Inc., a web hosting and managed service provider of VoIP communications, has announced the achievement of two important milestones - its 20,000th small business customer and its four billionth minute of VoIP traffic since its network's inception in early 2001.

Alienware has announced the release of its new Alienware Hivemind 5520 5U rack server. Powered by dual Intel Xeon processors with dual-core technology and with 3TB of hard drive storage and up to 16GB of memory, the Hivemind 5520 is 'an extremely powerful, reliable solution for databases, storage area networks, web hosting, multiple workloads, or other large-scale applications'.

IntraISP, LLC, a business management software developer, announced that it has entered into a License Agreement with Irish Broadband for its flagship IntraISP software platform release 6.0, a comprehensive billing & business management portal for ISP, WISP, Web Hosting, and VoIP providers.

iWeb Group Inc., a provider of web hosting services either through shared hosting, dedicated servers or collocation in its own data center, announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2005. Its consolidated revenue is up by 88% and gross profit is up by 95% from the same period last year.

SYS-CON Media today launched a new Web Hosting news and content site at webhosting.sys-con.com. The new SYS-CON portal will be the central news and information resource for global Web Hosting solution providers and their customers. WebHosting.sys-con.com will publish breaking news stories from the wires, exclusive interviews with leading hosting companies, as well as case studies and success stories from the Web Hosting industry.