Netfirms News Posts

Toronto, Canada – (Website Hosting Directory) – August 21, 2008 – Netfirms, web hosting solutions provider, congratulates Olympic Karen Cockburn, after sponsoring the contender a Canadian artistic gymnast, on her triumph in Woman’s Trampoline competition.

Toronto born gymnast Karen Cockburn, competed today and landed herself and Canada a silver medal, bringing her total medal count to three; a bronze in 2000, silver in 2004 and now silver in 2008.

Ms. Cockburn remarked, ”I’d like to thank everyone that made my dream possible. I had a huge outpour of e-mails from my website and blog prior to competition.”

Her journey, to what may be her final trip to any games, has not been an easy one. In 2007 Karen suffered her second knee injury. Her road to recovery began in early 2008 when she stepped foot onto a trampoline for the first time since her surgery.

Though this is her third time competing in the games, Karen never lets this fact go to her head. Facing stiff competition and a past rival there was no room for her injury or cockiness to cloud her mind. Proving that her determination is always present she earned a score of 37.00 and just barely fell short of first place by eight tenths of a point. She is the fourth Canadian ever to win a medal in three straight games.

Thomas Savundra, President, Netfirms Inc. added, ”Congratulations Karen on an excellent performance. It was a strong finish executed with class and poise in one of the most challenging competitions ever.”

After learning that the trampoline was a competitive sport, Ms. Cockburn made the switch. In 1995, Karen injured her knee to the point where she needed reconstructive surgery and had to miss a years worth of training and competitions. Up until 1999 she had to compete with a brace on her knee. Despite the challenges that Karen has faced she still manages to give 110% and never faults on her determination to win.

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Toronto, Canada – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – April 9, 2008 – Web hosting provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms, and ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrar, is now offering .asia domain names.

The addition of .asia domain names to their product line corresponds with today’s official .asia top level domain launch.

Netfirms encourages North American businesses to protect their brands and trademarks by registering their businessname with the new .asia domain extension. Registrants outside of Asia can meet Charter Eligibility Requirements by assigning Netfirms as their technical contact.

For $19.95 per year (minimum two year subscription) and an additional $5.00 per year per domain to assign Netfirms as their technical contact, customers registering .asia domain names through Netfirms receive:

• An .asia domain name
• A basic webpage with 25MB of disk space that can be edited immediately.
• An email account at the domain including a calendar, address book and spam filtering.
• Full DNS management with the user-friendly Netfirms Control Panel.

Thomas Savundra, President of Netfirms noted, ”We are excited to offer .asia domains to customers around the world. We’ve made things easy for customers anywhere to register .asia domain names by streamlining the registration and qualification process. By adding .asia to our domain name product line, we’re giving businesses the opportunity to expand their efforts into the world’s largest market while protecting their brands online.” Read more of this news »

Toronto, Canada – (Website Hosting Directory) – January 28, 2007 – Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, is cautioning that the new dot-ca domain names will sell out quickly in 2008. In particular, Canadians have embraced dot-ca domains, with nearly one million domains registered to date.

According to CIRA’s dot-ca domain registration count, the rapid growth of dot-ca domains is no surprise to Netfirms, whose customers have found that dot-ca domains are trusted by Canadians, more available than dot-com and priced competitively.

Alexey Kapralov, Founder of eShopp remarked, ”Having a dot-ca domain name has helped customers trust my online store. I’ve found that Canadians prefer to buy from my store because I’m located in Canada. That’s why having a dot-ca domain name is especially important for Canadian businesses.”

Registering a dot-ca domain name is particularly important for small businesses targeting Canadian consumers. A dot-ca domain name, paired with a Canadian focused website helps establish a trusted brand that attracts Canadian customers.

Although they’re going quickly, there are still more dot-ca domains available than dot-com. The entire dot-ca domain namespace consists of nearly one million registered domains compared to nearly seventy million registered dot-com domains. Read more of this news »

Toronto, Canada – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – December 6, 2007 – Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, has debuted a holiday offer, including $60 off Business hosting for one year. Until December 27, 2007, new customers may receive discounted, expanded specifications and features.

Details of the $9.95 per month (previously $14.95 per month), offer include:

• 300 GB diskspace
• 3,000 GB bandwidth
• 1,000 email accounts
• 5 FREE domain names
• Ability to host unlimited websites on one account
• $35 Google AdWords coupon
• Windows and Linux MultiPlatform
• Access to 24/7 toll-free phone support

Earlier this year, Netfirms reported that online stores are gaining popularity, as over 20,000 small businesses indicate revenue increases through hosting at Netfirms. Selling products through online stores is becoming more and more popular among small businesses in the United States. Internet technology has advanced since the beginning of the dot-com era, making online stores much easier to setup and manage, more reliable and affordable. This explains why 53% of small businesses in the United States sell their products or services through their own online stores and have seen a 4.3% increase in online sales revenue between 2001 and 2006. Read more of this news »

Toronto, Canada – (Website Hosting Directory) – November 7, 2007 – Web hosting provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms, has reported an increased demand for its MultiPlatform technology, since it debuted in early February 2007, which allows web developers to use both Microsoft Windows and Linux-based web development tools simultaneously.

Thomas Savundra, President of Netfirms, Inc. added, ”Our research shows that web developers want the flexibility of using both Windows and Linux environments to build their websites. That’s what attracts web developers to our seamlessly integrated MultiPlatform technology.”

Netfirms recently surveyed 1,000 customers about which features were most important in their decision to choose Netfirms MultiPlatform. Results indicated that Microsoft features, including MSSQL, ASP.Net 2.x and ASP.Net 1.x were most important. In terms of Linux features, web developers ranked PHP 4/5 and MySQL as most important. Read more of this news »

Toronto, Canada – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – October 4, 2007 – Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, has reported that online stores are gaining popularity, as over 20,000 small businesses indicate revenue increases through hosting at the e-commerce services based company.

Selling products through online stores is becoming more and more popular among small businesses in the United States. Internet technology has advanced since the beginning of the dot-com era, making online stores much easier to setup and manage, more reliable and affordable. This explains why 53% of small businesses in the United States sell their products or services through their own online stores and have seen a 4.3% increase in online sales revenue between 2001 and 2006. Read more of this news »

Toronto, Canada – (Website Hosting Directory) – September 7, 2007 – To celebrate web hosting domain name provider, Netfirms’ debut of its Web Design service, the company is giving away five free website makeovers, to website owners that enter before September 30, 2007.

Developed as a cost-effective professional website design service, including small businesses success tools, businesses may choose from three packages ranging in price from $399 to $1199. The Starter package includes six pages; Standard package, fifteen pages; and Ecommerce package, a fully functional e-store. All packages include a professionally designed website, free hosting, a domain name (website address), and optional maintenance.

Also included is one on one consultation with a professional web designer throughout the design process. Websites are powered by an intuitive web-based content management system that allows business owners to easily make updates, and are typically built within five business days.

Anthony Ramsundar, Web Design Account Coordinator at Netfirms, Inc. remarked, ”We’ve always been committed to helping small businesses. Our web design packages are complete solutions for any small business looking to succeed online.” Read more of this news »

Toronto, Canada – (The Hosting News) – July 16, 2007 – Web hosting provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms, has officially debuted the launch of its green energy saving program. Netfirms Green was created to demonstrate a commitment to reduce the company’s environmental consumption, by conserving energy in its data centers and corporate offices.

The company is in the final stages of migrating their clustered server architecture and data center operations to a direct current power source using Rackable Systems (NASDAQ:RACK) patented DC power technology. The technology has already reduced Netfirms data center power consumption by 25%. By end of 2007, they plan to reduce power usage in data centers by 45%.

Giovanni Coglitore, Chief Technology Officer of Rackable Systems remarked, ”Our proven DC Power technology has the potential to significantly reduce power consumption and increase server reliability. DC power gives technology companies like Netfirms the opportunity to actively help our environment by reducing energy usage and decreasing the amount of heat produced in large-scale data centers while maintaining their competitive edge.” Read more of this news »

Toronto, Canada – (The Hosting News) – February 14, 2007 – Web hosting provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms’ MultiPlatform application, will allow developers to use both Linux and Microsoft Windows-based web hosting platforms simultaneously.

Designed to to facilitiate building dynamic web sites and applications. the solution was developed to unify both web development environments providing seamless integration, cutting development time and hosting costs. Through proprietary technology developed by Netfirms, developers are able to use virtually any web programming framework from either platform at the same time, on the same website. Netfirms MultiPlatform delivers the most complete range of Windows and Linux based web site development tools available today under a single account including ASP.NET 2.0 and 1.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Linux, Apache, MySQL, Ruby on Rails and PHP. Read more of this news »