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1. Internet update: 225 million websites, more malware and spam

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 02 April 2009

   Netcraft and Symantec’s Message Labs released several new interesting numbers about the Internet today. Apparently, the internet is still growing at a record pace, spam is on the rise again and more ...

2. UPDATED: The 100 oldest registered dot com, org, net, edu domains

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 05 March 2009

   ... 14286 45 fsu.edu 11/24/87 7400 Oldest .NET domains: 01 nsf.net 11/05/86 n/a 02 uu.net 05/20/87 165772 03 sesqui.net 07/21/87 n/a Items in green denote current Top 500 ranking. According to Netcraft, ...

3. China pushes Internet past 200 million websites

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 02 March 2009

   Netcraft’s most recent web server has discovered a huge jump in the number of websites. February added more than 16% (or 30 million) new websites to the bottom line. China is the main reason. The ...

4. Internet ends 2008 with 186.7 million websites

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 04 January 2009

     The Internet was populated with more than 186.7 million websites at the end of 2008, according to data released by Netcraft. Compared to previous years, the growth of the Internet has slowed considerably. ...

5. 14% of SSL certificates on the Internet potentially unsafe

   (Security/Security Features)

   Saturday, 03 January 2009

     Netcraft provided more details on a critical digital certificate vulnerability revealed last week. Although Microsoft downplayed the problem by stating that the successful exploit was not published, Netcraft ...

6. Update: Cross-site scripting attack targets Yahoo user accounts

   (Security/Security Features)

   Monday, 27 October 2008

     Netcraft today said that a Yahoo website is currently under attack to obtain authentication cookies from Yahoo users. The Internet analysis firm warns that the data would allow the attacker to ...

7. Internet tops 172 million websites

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Monday, 07 July 2008

   The Internet maintained a healthy growth rate in June, growing to 172,338,726 sites by the end of the month, according to Netcraft. The company reported 3.9 million new sites for the month with most of ...

8. ICANN approves biggest expansion to Internet domain name space yet

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 26 June 2008

   ... a whole new way for people to express themselves on the Net. It's a massive increase in the 'real estate' of the Internet." According to a recent survey by Netcraft, the Internet currently consists of ...

9. Hacker redirects Barack Obama's site to hillaryclinton.com

   (Security/Security Brief)

   Tuesday, 22 April 2008

   A security weakness in Barack Obama's website has been exploited to redirect visitors to Hillary Clinton's website. Visitors who viewed the Community Blogs section of the site were instead presented with ...

10. CNN.com hit by Chinese attackers

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Tuesday, 22 April 2008

    The CNN News website has twice been affected since an earlier distributed denial of service attack last Thursday. CNN fixed Thursday's attack by limiting the number of users who could access the site ...

11. Amazon's EC2 takes on web hosting market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 28 March 2008

    Amazon has made a significant and much bolder step into the web hosting arena, extending its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service by introducing Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones. The Elastic ...

12. Apache regaining traction in global server installations

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 07 March 2008

    ... server installations: More than half of the web’s servers are running on Apache. According to Netcraft, the Internet stood at 158,209,426 sites in February, a gain of 2.6 million sites over January. ...

13. Extended Validation certificates and XSS considered harmful

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Friday, 29 February 2008

    A cross-site scripting vulnerability on the popular SourceForge.net website shows how Extended Validation SSL certificates could be exploited by fraudsters. Piggybacking on the anticipated extra trust ...

14. Internet grows to more than 150 million websites

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 11 January 2008

    ... its rapid growth rate in the final month of last year, adding more than five million websites for a bottom line of more than 150 million. According to Netcraft’s web server survey, web hosters saw ...

15. Internet growing at record pace, Apache losing ground quickly

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 12 October 2007

    The Internet is growing on a faster rate than ever before and is quickly approaching a size of 150 million websites, according to survey results released by Netcraft. Apache remains the most popular software ...

16. Internet tops 135 million websites

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 14 September 2007

    In the September 2007 survey we received responses from 135,166,473 sites. This is an increase of 7.2 million sites since last month, the largest growth in the number of sites recorded by the survey. The ...

17. Apache quickly surrenders web server market share to Microsoft, Google

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 06 August 2007

    ... Apache also has to deal with advances of Google and has lost almost 10 market share points during the first seven months of the year. According to Netcraft's August web server survey, 50.92% of the ...

18. Internet grows to more than 125 million sites

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 16 July 2007

    There is no slowdown in sight: The Internet keeps growing at an accelerated pace, adding 20.4 million new sites in the first half of this year, according to web analysis firm Netcraft. Chicago (IL) - ...

19. Web site count climbs past 105 million

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 07 December 2006

    105,244,649 web sites populated the Internet at the beginning of December, according to report released by Netcraft. Chicago (IL) - 105,244,649 web sites populated the Internet at the beginning of December, ...

20. Internet grows to over 100 million websites

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Thursday, 02 November 2006

    According to Internet monitoring firm Netcraft, the Internet has blossomed to more than 100 million websites this month. According to the report, new online stores and the explosion of blogs helped to ...

21. Outsourcing accelerates in LCD TV market

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 27 October 2006

      Due to the explosive growth of LCD TV sales, outsourced design and manufacturing activities are taking off in the television market, according to iSuppli. The portion of LCD TV manufacturing outsourced ...

22. Price competition emerges in grid hosting

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 20 October 2006

    ... specs for just $20 a month. The account comes with 100 GB of disk space, 1 TB of monthly data transfer and the ability to host up to 100 domains. Read the complete story here. (Netcraft)  ...

23. Growth of Internet slows considerably in September

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 10 October 2006

    ... of the increase that was seen in recent months. The count settled at 97,932,447 sites in early October, according to a report released by Netcraft. While 2006 will break any previous record of hostname ...

24. Internet on track to grow beyond 100 million websites this month

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 06 September 2006

    96,854,877 hostnames populated the Internet earlier this month, according to a survey released by Netcraft. The Internet grew by 4.2 million sites in August alone and gained 15.5 million since June of ...

25. Google and Microsoft blog sites driving Internet record growth

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 02 August 2006

    The Internet added 4.4 million new hostnames during July - the single largest gain of new sites in a single month, according to Internet services firm Netcraft. The growth surpassed the previous records ...

26. 100 million websites by the end of this year?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 20 July 2006

    The Internet continues to grow at an impressive speed. According to a survey conducted by Netcraft earlier this month, there are currently 88,166,395 sites available - 2.87 million more than last month. ...

27. SQL security flaws found in Mambo, Joomla

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Friday, 30 June 2006

    ... in by typing SQL code into form fields. Joomla is a fork of Mambo, with both programs derived from the same code base. Read the complete story here. (Netcraft)  ...

28. Paypal flaw allows identity theft

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 16 June 2006

    ... today via Netcraft's anti-phishing toolbar. A security flaw in the PayPal web site is being actively exploited by fraudsters to steal credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to PayPal ...

29. Number of websites grows at record pace

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 08 June 2006

    Netcraft said that it has counted 85,541,228 websites at the beginning of this month. The number represents a gain of 3.96 million sites over the previous month - the highest ever one-month increase recorded ...

30. Wikipedia website hit with 40-minute outage

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 24 April 2006

    ... of its facilities. The site was completely unreachable for 40 minutes, and experienced performance problams for much of the afternoon. Read the complete story here. (Netcraft)  ...

31. Perens launches open source domain parking service

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Tuesday, 18 April 2006

    ... to a 5% market share gain by Microsoft in this month's Netcraft web server survey. Read the complete story here. (Netcraft)  ...

32. Internet tops 80 million websites

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 07 April 2006

    According to Netcraft's most recent web server survey, the amount of hostnames on the Internet has doubled within the past three years. According to Netcraft's most recent web server survey, the amount ...

33. Internet adds 1.4 million new sites in February

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 13 March 2006

      According to a report released by Netcraft, the Internet continued its rapid pace of growing domains in February. The firm said that it was able to track responses from 77,568,868 sites in early ...

34. DDoS attacks target prominent blogs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 01 March 2006

    ... on Monday a DDoS struck one of the blogosphere's most financially successful bloggers. Read the complete story here. (Netcraft)  ...

35. Payment gateway StormPay hit by DDoS attack

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Monday, 13 February 2006

    ... Read the complete story here. (Netcraft)  ...

36. GoDaddy becomes world's largest web hosting firm

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 10 February 2006

      If you have wondered about the sense of Internet registrar GoDaddy's $2.5 million Super Bowl commercials, Internet analysis firm Netcraft has an answer. While the impact of this year's is not know ...

37. Internet populated by more than 75 million websites - Netcraft

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 10 January 2006

      British consulting firm Netcraft reports in its January 2006 web server survey that the current global web site count stands at 75,251,256. British consulting firm Netcraft reports in its January ...

38. MacWorld Expo site falters during Jobs keynote

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 10 January 2006

    ... of surfers eager for details on the latest Apple products slowed macworldexpo.com to a crawl. Read the complete story here. (Netcraft)  ...

39. Internet growing in 2005 faster than ever before - survey

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 05 October 2005

    ... in the Web's history are still surprising. Netcraft reports in its October 2005 web server survey that 2005 will show the strongest gain of new websites ever. According to the firm, there are currently ...

40. Apache server-based websites near 50-million mark

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 08 September 2005

      Netcraft has published the results of its September web server survey. Netcraft has published the results of its September web server survey. According to the company, 71,723,098 web server were ...

41. Netcraft counts 70 million websites

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 05 August 2005

      The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received ...

42. Antiphishing toolbar for Firefox released

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 25 May 2005

      Internet services company Netcraft has released a version of its toolbar for Firefox. Internet services company Netcraft has released a version of its toolbar for Firefox. The plug-in can help ...

43. ASP.NET security flaw can bypass password

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 07 October 2004

    ... 2000 Server, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003." Netcraft data finds that ASP.NET is currently on over 2.9 million active sites. Read the complete story.  ...

44. E-commerce attack is imminent, warn security experts

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 26 July 2004

      A surge in internet scanning activity in the past week could indicate a fresh wave of attacks on e-commerce servers, UK-based web services company Netcraft warned. A surge in internet scanning ...

45. Microsoft Using Linux-Based Network in Wake of Attacks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 28 August 2003

    ... and DoS attacks, Microsoft has asked for help from an unusual place: a network of Linux-based servers. According to Internet security and services firm Netcraft, the software giant has changed the DNS ...

46. Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 21 August 2003

    ... itself is using Linux to help protect its servers against denial-of-service attacks. "According to a post on the Netcraft Web site, Microsoft changed its DNS settings on Friday so that requests for www.microsoft.com ...