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Jupiter, Florida - (The Hosting News) - June 3, 2009 - Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting and Dedicated Servers provider, HostNine, has hired a new leader for the company’s customer service department.

Geoff Crump previously served as director of customer relations at FastServers.net, and studied Theater at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y.

Ben Gabler, operations manager, HostNine noted, ”HostNine is in a period of organizational improvement. We have recognized that while we are good at what we do, and our customers are satisfied, we must actively seek to operate more efficiently, effectively, and with a stronger spirit of innovation. Geoff Crump shares our vision and will serve as a catalyst to effect positive strategic and tactical change in the months and years to come.”

According to company, Mr. Crump is a tested expert with empathy, vision, and commitment, with over 16 years of customer service experience.

As customer service manager (CSM), Mr. Crump’s professional responsibilities will include managing employee-customer interactions (through helpdesk, live chat, and telephone), introducing techniques to gauge customer satisfaction and garner qualitative feedback, and developing and implementing strategic change. HostNine will use Crump’s expertise to adhere to more rigid quality control standards, including limits on hold times, ticket response times, and depth-of-response.

Mr. Crump explained, ”I look at customer service as a balanced, symbiotic relationship between the customer and the business. No one part can fully survive without the other, and the best results come from a working relationship built on communication and understanding. That’s why we’re here.”

HostNine, LLC is an industry leader in web hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated servers. Running all Dell PowerEdge servers located throughout ten different data centers around the world, HostNine provides a 99.9 percent network uptime guarantee to its customers.

For more about reseller hosting from HostNine, please visit: www.hostnine.com/reseller-hosting.

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Sunnyvale, California - (The Hosting News) - June 3, 2009 - Search engine and Internet firm, Yahoo! Inc., is scheduled to participate in several upcoming investor technology conferences as outlined below.

Bank of America and Merrill Lynch 2009 U.S. Technology Conference

Carol Bartz, Yahoo! chief executive officer, will participate in a question and answer session at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch 2009 U.S. Technology Conference in New York, New York. The session is scheduled to begin at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

RBC Capital Markets 2009 Technology, Media and Communications Conference

Larry Cornett, vice president product search, will participate in a question and answer session at the RBC Capital Markets 2009 Technology, Media and Communications Conference in San Francisco, California. The session is scheduled to begin at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET on Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

Credit Suisse 2009 Convergence Conference

Joanne Bradford, senior vice president of revenue and market development, will participate in a question and answer session at the Credit Suisse 2009 Convergence Conference in Dana Point, California. The session is scheduled to begin at 1:15pm PT / 4:15pm ET on Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

A live webcast of all presentations will be available on the Investor Relations website at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm?CalendarID=5

Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

For more information, please visit: www.yahoo.com.

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - June 3, 2009 - Windows Server 2008 hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, invites users to experience Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 for next-generation web application packaging and deployment scenarios.

The offer includes using the free MsDeploy sandbox hosting platform first unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”As a hoster, we hear from our customers that deploying web applications is not always easy. But with the next-generation development tools, Microsoft has invested in easing the application deployment experience. So now with the beta 1 release of VS2010, we want to extend an invitation to the community to experience end-to-end application deployment using VS2010 on our free sandbox hosting platform. There are still available accounts and time left to test one-click deployment.”

With the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 from May 20, 2009, developers can now test features such as web application packaging, web.config file transformation, database deployment and One-Click publishing with the live hosting environment of the sandbox.

The free sandbox hosting platform was originally introduced to allow developers to get early experience with the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy). In March 2009, the sandbox hosting program was updated and extended to June 30, 2009 with the latest Web Deployment Tool RC1. The program is a limited program offered as an open beta on a first come first serve basis. The beta hosting account comes with 50 MB of disk space and 50 MB of SQL Server 2008 database space. Interested developers are welcome to sign up at http://lab.discountasp.net.

DiscountASP.NET is an innovative global leader in Microsoft Windows hosting, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, DiscountASP.NET is one of the first hosting providers to offer Windows Server 2008 hosting, SQL Server 2008 hosting and MVC hosting. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL Server technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise ASP.NET web hosting.

To learn more about the VS 2010 beta 1 bits, please visit: www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx.

For more information, please visit: www.DiscountASP.NET.

Scottsdale, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - June 3, 2009 - Web hosting domain registrar, Go Daddy, recently experienced a dramatic victory with Brad Keselowski’s win at the Dover International Speedway, as his first win for GoDaddy.com No. 88, during his second year driving for the Internet firm.

Mr. Keselowski remarked, ”That’s the way we roll,” after driving the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet to victory in one of the most dramatic wins of the NASCAR season.
It’s a race few spectators will forget because of the way the finish unfolded. Most fans were stunned, as the GoDaddy.com No. 88 zipped past two others in the final laps to win.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy noted, ”What a thrilling race to watch and a tremendous victory. Brad drove a smart race and the instant he had the opportunity, he made his move - it was nothing short of spectacular.”

Dale Earnhardt, Jr., drives the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series, which he helped design and is also Keselowski’s mentor. As owner of JR Motorsports and a fellow Go Daddy driver, Earnhardt was wearing his bright orange GoDaddy.com hat, while awaiting Keselowski’s arrival to the winner’s circle. Mr. Earnhardt added, ”The Go Daddy car was running well today.”

As Mr. Parsons pointed out, Keselowski was given an opportunity and jumped on it. ”We caught a break today,” Mr. Keselowski said, alluding to how Kyle Busch fell out of contention after a restart, with three laps to go, creating an inside slot.

Mr. Keselowski confirmed, ”This team deserves it, GoDaddy.com deserves this! I have to thank everyone at Go Daddy and Bob Parsons,” on live television after landing in the winner’s circle.

This win is especially exciting for Mr. Parsons, who helped design the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets, noting, ”No doubt about it, Brad Keselowski is a winner. NASCAR fans know it. Go Daddy knows it. We are absolutely ecstatic to see Brad take the No. 88 Go Daddy car to the winner’s circle today.”

This has been a tough year for NASCAR drivers in terms of sponsorships. The economy has forced many longtime sponsors to scale back or pull out. Go Daddy, however, experienced unprecedented corporate success in 2008 and, in turn, expanded its sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr., JR Motorsports, Hendrick Motorsports and Mr. Keselowski.

GoDaddy.com enjoyed its first Nationwide victory last August with Ron Fellows driving in Canada. This is Mr. Keselowski’s third Nationwide Series win - his first in the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet. Go Daddy also sponsors Mr. Keselowski this season in seven Sprint Cup Series races in which he drives the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets.

Go Daddy’s foray into racing sponsorships started with the company’s support of IndyCar’s Danica Patrick in 2007. That sponsorship continues this year as well. Patrick, a Go Daddy Girl and IndyCar’s Most Popular driver, made history last season as the first woman ever to win in the IndyCar Series and finished third in last Sunday’s classic, the Indianapolis 500.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 35 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn more, please visit: www.godaddy.com.