Groovle 1 Google 0 Over domain name claim fight

Groovle 1 Google 0 Over domain name claim fight

When search giant Google Inc filed a claim against small Canadian search engine Groovle.com, Google lawyers probably thinks is a forgone conclusion that Groovel.com will be transferred to them as indicated in the case Google inc filed against Groovel.com, after all, in the previous 64 cased filed by Google about domain names, 63 has been upheld in Google’s favour.

Google argue that Groovel.com owned by 207 Media, was too similar to its own, however mediators in the case disagree with Google and refuse to grant the transfer of Groovel.com to Google, the 3 Judges at the body that arbitrated on the case were unanimous in their decision, they added in their statement that the name was not similar enough to confuse people and the word ‘groovle’ was more closely linked to “groovy” or “groove” rather than Google.

Google also brought other claims against 207 media claiming that the domain was registered in bad faith, the judges refused to examine Google’s claim that the Canadian business had no “legitimate” interest in the domain name and had registered it in “bad faith”.

You can discuss this and other domain name related issues at UK webmaster forum.

Buy or rent shopping cart software which is cost effective

Should you buy or rent ecommerce shopping cart software

If you have an ecommerce website, you cannot do without a shopping cart. It is the shopping cart program that enables your customers to select the products and place them appropriately for payment. Without the shopping cart, your customers will face problems completing their transaction and that will impact your ecommerce initiative severely.

The question is whether you would want to buy one or take one on rent. This article examines the advantages and disadvantages of buying versus renting out a shopping cart.

Buying a shopping cart

When you purchase the shopping cart, you have total ownership, control over how you wish to customize the software to suit your requirements. You can tweak the software to include or delete features. This is of course assuming that you possess the necessary knowledge and expertise to do so.

However, the flip side is that when you buy such software, you need to keep paying for any upgrades that the software may undergo. If you wish to do the upgrade your self, it may not be possible and in the process if you end up making changes to the software, you will stop getting the after sales support from the company you bought the software from.

Renting the shopping cart

When it comes to renting, there are limitations as well. You will not be able to do any customization since you do not own the software and have to make do with the features it already possesses. The only solace is that you are not making a bulk one time payment but paying it over several months and this may come back to haunt you as time passes. The advantage is that you can get started with your business and contribute to the rent per month from the profits you start making in your ecommerce business. If the business starts doing well, you always have the option of buying out the software with the additional cash it has generated for you over time.

The positive aspect of renting the shopping cart is the fact that you can get free upgrades and avail of the benefit of any improvements made to the software without paying anything. You need to check this out when you do rent out the shopping cart with your host. Also make sure that you will have access to regular service help when required so that you are not left high and dry when there is a problem.

Your decision to buy a shopping cart or rent it out thus depends on how technically savvy you are or whether you have access to such a person and what is the importance you wish to accord to customization. If you cannot provide for your own support system and do not attach much importance to customization, then renting out the shopping cart software would be ideal for you. If you are one of those who does not wish to pay a bulk amount upfront, then renting is the right option.

Many web hosting companies do offer such shopping cart software in their monthly hosting package and that is one way you can start using the software without making a huge payment upfront.

However if you wish to buy it outright, you need to always remember that the cost will increase depending on the features you decide to have on it.

Ultimately as mentioned, it is your business requirements that will decide whether to rent or buy the shopping cart software.

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Web Host UK – Established budget hosting company

Web Host UK LTD

The hosting industry is a pretty saturate industry, this is potentially good for consumers because you have several companies competing for your custom, this in turn mean that the hosting companies give you excellent value for your money in the form of web hosting package packed full goodies.
To the experienced webmaster, it is quite easy to unravel web hosting company speak to know that some of the bundles in the package you are being offered are not necessarily useful. For a new webmaster, choosing a company can be extremely difficult as you are not sure whether all the huge web space and the offer of a free domain name is good or bad.

Whether you are a new webmaster or an experienced webmaster, you will not get confused by the packages offered by Web Host UK, a small but growing web hosting company. Their homepage sets out the packages they offer and the services bundled with it in easy to understand. The fact that they do not offer silly gimmicks as some hosting companies do makes Web Host UK particularly attractive to the discerning shopper who is after straightforward honest pricing.

Web Host UK hosting packages are position for the budget market, their entry level hosting package on a share server is priced at £1.20 per month. The bundle that comes with a package that cheap is impressive, it includes 400 MB web space, 4 GB data transfer per month, you can have it on a Linux or Windows server and you can expect the usual server side scripts most website owners use this days such as PHP, CGI etc.

If you need to host multiple website, their reseller hosting package may be the one for you, like the budget package, the reseller package comes with generous web space and bandwidth, they even throw in a free WHMCS billing software and SSL certificate free with the reseller package. At £9.99 per month the reseller package is tremendous value

For power user who host more demanding website or web applications, the semi-dedicated server package may be what you need. It starts from £39 per month, its package with just about anything you can ever need on a semi-dedicated or dedicated server.

The promises made by Web Host UK is quite reassuring, they promise to give you your money back if you are not satisfied with their services, this promise coupled with the 99.99% up time guarantee makes them a particularly fascinating web hosting site for the budget conscious website owners.

There is a dictum that if you buy cheap, you buy twice, this is quite true if you buy budget product from a company just finding its feet in the market, you could struggle to get a good service from such company while some companies actually go out of business in their first few year.
You are highly unlikely to have this experience with Web Host UK. The company was establish over six years ago. According to a spokes person for the company, they are profitable.
The reassurance from Web Host UK is nice but most companies do tend to blow their own trumpet too loudly, you can only be certain of praises being heaped on a company if it comes from a third party, there are satisfied Web Host UK customers singing their praises at rate point.
It is fairly safe to conclude that webmasters shopping for sensibly priced reliable web hosting form and establish provider will find a good hosting package at Web Host UK.

Web Host UK Quick Facts

Hosting Services Category : Budget hosting
Hosting Packages: Budget, Reseller, Dedicated hosting and VPS hosting. FFMPEG YouTube clone on VPS and dedicated
server for scripts like razz clipshare,PHPmotion and Boonex products
Hosting Platforms: Linux and Windows
Control Panel Software: cPanel, Plesk, WHMCH (for reseller hosting)
Average Support Response Time: 10 minutes.
Ecommerce Platform: Mangento.
CMS Script : Joomla.
Site homepage: http://www.webhost.uk.net/
Support page: http://secure.webhost.uk.net/index.php

You can discuss Web Host UK at the web hosting section of UK webmaster forum. You can also comment on this blog.

Twitter hacked and defaced

It is quite interesting that a site like Twitter could be hacked and defaced like it was reported to have been done this morning. Some crackers calling themselves IRANIAN CYBER ARMY were said to have hacked twitter homepage and posted the message below:
Iranian Cyber Army THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY
iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM
U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….
NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.

A few hours ago when I tried to follow a twitter user I was unable to, this was probably when the hacking was in progress. Some people claimed the hackers did not actually hack into twitter homepage but their domain name was hijacked and pointed to another url. Anyway, whatever really happen, twitter is back to normal at the time this post was being published.

UK2.net web hosting reviews

UK2.net

Brief introduction
The web hosting industry saw the launch of many companies a decade back with each one keen to cash in on the opportunity the internet space provided to them. One of them was UK2.net and this company claims to be a highly profitable company having sold more than a million domain names and hosted many thousands of web sites apart from providing the benefits of their dedicated servers to their customers in various parts of the world.
This company has the proud distinction of having been accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which enables them to provide various domain extensions like .biz, .org, .info and so on.
One of the key initiatives of the company has been to raise funds and support a charitable organization like No More Landmines. These funds are used to support humanitarian causes in terms of providing Survivor Assistance and allocating them to the families of victims.

Services Offered

a) Domain Names

As mentioned, they offer domain names and support them with features like POP3 email accounts, Web diversion and Control Panel facilities to enable you to manage your email accounts.

b) Web Hosting Services

UK2 offers four packages of Web Hosting under the Starter, Home, Business and Business Plus names tailored to suit requirements of the basic, regular, small businesses and large website users respectively.

All these packages provide many of the standard features associated with Web hosting such as hosting space, bandwidth, and domain names and so on. The Business Plus package obviously provides the maximum number of features as compared to the other packages.

Their current promotional offer enables you to save as much as 54% on the Business package of web hosting.

c) Dedicated Servers

They offer this service under four different packages of Bronze, Silver, Gold and Custom with cPanel control and a good choice of operating systems as in CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Windows. There is no Set up fee for contracts taken on one year basis. They also provide Domain Validated SSL Certificates at no cost through their partner Comodo

d)Ecommerce services

This service is again available in three packages such as Starter, E commerce and Ecommerce Plus and their current offer would enable you to save up to 50% on the Ecommerce and Ecommerce Plus packages. All the packages offer good space and bandwidth with free shop templates to get you going quickly on your online shopping site set up.

e) Reseller Hosting

This is yet another service being offered under three packages of Reseller Starter, Reseller and Reseller Plus, where again their current promotional offer enables you to save up to £240 on the Reseller Plus package which includes the Ecommerce facility. Unlimited domains, bandwidth and POP/IMAP email facilities characterise these package offers.

Strengths

* Proven track record
* Strong technical support back up system
* Regular promotional offers enabling customers to save money

Support Provided

It is routed via a trouble ticket system and is well backed up by a rich repository of knowledge base articles for customers to know more about the services.

They have a Sales number 0800 612 2142 as well for customers to call up, besides separate numbers for billing and system status enquiries. Technical support and Dedicated Server Support are also provided.

What customers have to say?

Customers are happy about the quick response and support to their problems. They are also very satisfied with the Dedicated Servers and have experienced huge surges in traffic to their site. Some have liked the unlimited free SSL certificates provided for their ecommerce sites that have made their task easier of selling online. Up time of the servers has impressed other customers as well.

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