March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Rackspace mail division and business-class email hosting provider Webmail.us announced on Tuesday it has changed its corporate brand from “Webmail” to “Mailtrust”.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider AT&T announced on Wednesday that it is planning to expand its data center network with a focus on Boston, Massachusetts, Dallas, Texas, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Singapore.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Rackspace announced on Wednesday it has launched its new corporate identity as “Rackspace.”

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — GroupSPARK announced on Tuesday that it welcomes Microsoft’s further entry into the hosted services market with the beta release of Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for small and medium-sized businesses.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider ServerBeach, a PEER 1 subsidiary, announced on Tuesday it has released self-managed firewalls to customers at its San Antonio, Texas data center.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian software company WiseNav announced on Tuesday that it has upgraded its WiseNav website development tool to version 3.0.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign announced on Wednseday it has published its Q4 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief, which reveals that the Internet grew by nearly 33 million domain names in 2007.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Wednesday it is extending its offer that provides one-year of free SSL certificate to developers of open source projects and applications.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft Netcraft announced on Wednesday that Tiscali Italia is the most reliable hosting company site for February 2008, followed by myhosting.com, Kattare, Datapipe and Swishmail.

March 5, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Event organizers Ticonderoga Ventures announced that mergers and acquisitions for affiliate businesses will be a prominent topic to discuss at the upcoming sixth annual Casino European Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam from April 3 to 5.