March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider HostMySite announced on Wednesday it has named Don MacIntyre, a former Monster.com executive, the company’s VP of software development.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Video-sharing website YouTube announced on its blog yesterday that it has released a new set of tools that enable Web developers to generate YouTube videos on their own sites.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Virtualization and automation software provider Parallels, formerly known as SWsoft, announced on Wednesday that its third annual Parallels Summit 2008 will focus on hosting and software as a service.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting and colocation provider Hosting.com announced on Wednesday that Christopher R. McCleary has joined the company’s board of directors.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Australian Web hosting provider Hostworks announced on Tuesday it has signed a three-year contract with online auction provider GraysOnline.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain asset management provider Moniker, an Oversee.net company, announced on Wednesday it is hosting a casino-related live and online domain name auction at Casino Affiliate Convention Amsterdam.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet suffered another outage on Tuesday, but the company says it affected only 10 percent of its customers, reports The Register.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Concentric announced on Monday it is offering its Perimeter Email Protection service through its new reseller program to provide email security for the email infrastructures of small- to mid-size businesses.

March 12, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy shut down a website on Tuesday that enables visitors to rate and comment on their community’s undercover police officers, as reported by the Wired blog.