Dec 22
Sedo has been voted #1 eCommerce host by the Webhostdirectory community!
“Sedo.com: With more than 500,000 members around the world trading domains in more than 21 languages, Sedo stands alone as the world’s only global domain marketplace. It may be close to impossible to directly register good domains anymore but the Sedo domain marketplace offers the world’s largest selection of premium domains with more than 8 million available for sale! “
Wow! Even before Hostway (placed #2)
Sedo’s press release:
Sedo is happy to announce that we were recently voted as the #1 “E-commerce Host” by Webhostdirectory, an online leader for comparing and purchasing hosting products. Webhostdirectory has announced Sedo as the winner of this month’s Ecommerce Host award after tabulating the votes received from their online community and the Webhostdirectory Review Board. Awards are given to the best Web Hosts in each of Webhostdirectory’s seven hosting categories (Shared, Ecommerce, Dedicated Server, Reseller, Unix, Windows and Budget hosting) by rating each host in six areas of performance, including cost, features, support, reliability and speed.
Sedo is honored to be chosen as the top in our field in one of the fastest growing segments of the internet, E-Commerce. With more than 68,000 members around the world trading domains in more than 21 languages, Sedo has always taken pride in serving as the world’s only global domain marketplace. There are more than 9 million domains listed for sale on Sedo’d premier domain marketplace and more than 4 million domains monetize their traffic with Sedo’s award winning domain monetization program.
For more information and survey results please see:
http://www.webhostdir.com/webhostawards/ecommerce.asp
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Sep 20
Ever since GoDaddy cooperated with Google by offering “Google Apps for your domain” there where rumours about Google acquiring Godaddy. And it’s been a while now that such rumours appear in articles and in blogs. Speculations could be read at Domainnamewire and eWeek (excellent article by the way) for instance. Now that Yahoo! Finance also throws some fuel on the fire, I’d like to summarize the speculated indicators for the “marriage”:
- The above mentioned cooperation
- Google recently became accredited registrar (according to them to “understand the domain system to improve Google Apps”)
- Bob Parsons is usually very outspoken about his plans. Remember when he had to withdraw the IPO in 2006? He refuses to comment on this one though. (When asked he only said “I have no comment on that, but I’d like to.”)
- Bob recently filed patent applications for search, VOIP, e-mail and domain technologies. This makes him very yummy for Google
Reasons for Google to take over GoDaddy:
- $$$
- More knowledge, know-how and information about Webmasters
- Incredible amount of information and know-how about domains
- Sell webspace AND domain
- GoDaddy patents
- Google would avoid that GoDaddy switches its huge parking pages pool over to Yahoo!
- GoDaddy’s applications would perfectly fit into Google’s applications offering
- Google could effectively clean its databases for instance when domains expire, are unused or have afterwards different content.
- POWER
- EVEN MORE DATA
One thing is for sure, Bob is a very appealing target for Google. An acquisition would make perfectly sense for Google and it would be very lucrative for Bob. But on the other hand, Bob “16 rules” Parsons, ex-Marine, dedicated 100% entrepreneur, selling his assets to Google? Selling his baby to a predator? I cannot imagine that he would accept loosing control over his business (which surely would happen).
Such a mega deal would be a real shake-up in the domain industry!
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Sep 19
Stunning. Just one week after SWSoft announced the acquisition of Positive Software and its H-Sphere control panel software (2 million end-users), they now announced the acquisition of SaaS provider Sphera.com (customers: AT&T, Japan Telecom, Telecom Italia…) and its hosting control panel…
Sphera provides automation, provisioning, virtualization and management software for hosting companies, telecoms and enterprises.
“We’re building a broader solution set and customer base as a technology provider — using a standards-based approach — to enable the delivery of SaaS by application developers and service providers,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft. “Through our three recent acquisitions, we estimate that we will be able to reach nearly 1.5 million additional business customers through our ISV and service provider partners.”
Well this is correct, but standards established by them! 
If you’re into SaaS and/or value added services for hosting companies there are good chances that you will have to meet their standards. We’ll see how this will have an impact on software manufacturers.
From leading position they now definitely moved to a dominant position. Then you can establish standards. Kind of the Microsoft of Hosting and Virtualization.
Where will they stop, and above all when will the European Union intervene? 
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Official press release acquisition Sphera
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