In this week’s disaster inspired episode of the Web Hosting Show, we’ll take a look at how and why the H1N1 virus might take out the entire web hosting world as we know it, and five search engine optimization tips anybody can do, in the mean time. Before Armageddon comes, you need to listen to this very scary cold and flu edition of the Web Hosting Show podcast.
Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 196!
Running Time: 12 minutes | File Size: 5.38 MB
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Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:
- Over 3,000 Free CSS Web Design Templates!
- Will the Swine Flu Take Out the Internet?
- Is Web Hosting a Falling Trend on the Web?
- 5 SEO Tips You Can Do, Right Now!
Here is this week’s web hosting news headline:
ICANN Breaks Free from US Control – Internet regulation body ICANN and the US Department of Commerce announced last week that they have signed a new agreement that ensures that ICANN will now be “independent and not controlled by any one entity”.
Trivia Question – Where are the ICANN headquarters?
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The domain name business, sometimes referred to as the confusing cousin of the web hosting business, has some odd slang tied to it. One phrase you may or may not of heard of is domain sniping.
ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. You can think of them as the overloads of domain names. The purpose of ICANN is to coordinate everything about domains. They are like the godfather of the domain name world.
From head to toe, from pillar to post this podcast yet again delivers a little something for everybody. From dissecting ICANN to help with turning Gmail into your default e-mail client for all of your e-mail addresses, this week’s hosting podcast promises to deliver the goods*.
Is it just me, or does it seem like there is a lot of spam talk these days? Here I have for you two of the hottest spam stories of the moment, and a little talk about hacking and passing the blame to round things up.
Here is an interesting idea. Would you like to have the domain name yourname.yourbusiness?
I am happy to see ICANN has decided to stand up and do something about this money grubbing nonsense. Under current ICANN rules, anyone who registers a new domain name has a five-day grace period to back out and receive a total refund. The problem is people use this period to test how well the domain name does in the real world and also slap ads all over it to make a buck.





When Spam Attacks – Episode 157
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Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.97 MB
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Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.
Short on words this week, but since we do have an awful lot of SPAM talk this week:
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