April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The domain name Bond.com went up for auction on Thursday for a reserve price of $1 million.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Online advertising and services company eZanga announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Web hosting provider HostMySite and content delivery network provider Panther Express.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Soviet Union may have collapsed some 16 years ago, but you would never guess it from the rising popularity of its country-code domain name.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Go Daddy announced on Friday that Western International University, a university for adult education, has selected company CEO and founder Bob Parsons as the commencement speaker for its graduating class of 2008.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Federal Communications Commission met at Stanford University on Thursday to talk about the hot-button issue of Net Neutrality.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM announced on Friday that it has acquired data protection solutions provider Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed amount.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Storage Networking Industry Association announced on Thursday that it has formed an alliance with The Green Grid.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DemoWolf announced on Friday it has released 74 new tutorials for three new series, which includes a 47 tutorial series on Fantastico, 16 tutorials for the latest build of RVSiteBuilder PRO and 11 new Voice tutorials for WordPress.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hitachi Group announced on Thursday it is celebrating next week’s Earth Day by expanding its green data center in Yokohama, Japan.

April 18, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — This week’s Web hosting news saw a variety of announcements, but there was a fairly obvious “most significant” as fast as the hosting industry was concerned, as on Monday Layered Technologies announced that it had acquired Fastservers.Net.