December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK Web hosting provider Fasthosts announced on Wednesday that it automatically reset many of its customers control panel and FTP passwords last Thursday.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Chelsea Football Club in conjunction with Level 3 announced on Wednesday that it has launched Chelsea Plus, a new portal that contains news on the club, training ground reports and live commentary and build-up on match days.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider FastNext announced on Thursday that it is offering a Christmas promotion for new and existing customers until January 7.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center and managed services provider Hosted Solutions announced on Thursday that it has signed a three year, managed hosting contract with search engine provider PromoPipeline.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Ethernet Internet service provider Cogent Communications announced on Wednesday that its CEO will participate in a panel discussion at the Thomas Weisel Partners’ Telecom Technologies of Tomorrow conference.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider HostMySite announced on Thursday it is offering a holiday promotion for December as sign of customer appreciation.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — SWsoft announced on Thursday that Russia-based Web hosting provider .masterhost is offering new virtual private server offerings for Windows powered by SWsoft Virtuozzo virtualization software.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — SAVVIS announced it plans to build a new data center in London and expand existing data centers in Singapore and the New York area, in response to the growing global customer demand for integrated hosting and network services.

December 6, 2007 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Certification authority and security provider GlobalSign announced on Wednesday that it has been seeing a growing demand for its extended validation SSL certificate, ExtendedSSL.

December 6, 2007 –Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign announced on Wednesday it released its third quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief, revealing some 12 million new domain names were added over the past quarter.