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April 22, 2005
Web Host dotCanada acquires AffordableHOST
Web hosting company dotCanada just announced that it bought the customers and business assets of Michigan-based AffordableHOST.

April 15, 2005
April 2005 Web Server Survey
April's monthly gain of almost 1.7 million hostnames is the strongest increase so far this year. When compared with previous years, the big gain suggests a seasonal pattern to the Internet's strongest growth.

April 13, 2005
Email spammer sentenced to 9 years in jail
A thirty year-old man convicted in the United States' first criminal case against illegal email spamming was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison, for sending Internet users millions of unwanted junk emails. Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas Horne has decided to delay the start of Jeremy Jaynes' prison term while the case is appealed due to the relatively comprehensive nature of the new law. A jury had recommended the nine-year term for the Raleigh, North Carolina man.

April 11, 2005
New .jobs and .travel domains cleared by ICANN
ICANN, the Internet's governing body for the registration of top-level domain names has approved the registration for two new top-level domain names for jobs and travel information. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave final approval to the .jobs and .travel top level domains at a public meeting in Argentina.

April 4, 2005
ICANN imposes a $2 Internet tax on all new domains
Internet domain name regulating organisation ICANN has imposed a $2 tax on all new domains. The organisation has just publicly announced the offering of two new top-level domains, in the category of .travel and .jobs, but the registry agreement reveals that it has put a $2 per transaction charge on every domain the companies sell or renew, in other words, an Internet tax.