Grats to InterCosmos Group

TheEnforcer · 10-28-2005

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20...s_katrina.html

Zipa Gains Nearly 1 Million Sites As It Weathers Katrina Hosting
The past two months have been an extraordinary time for the InterCosmos Group, which operates a network of Internet companies in New Orleans. The company's colocation and hosting unit, Zipa, gained 990,000 hostnames between Aug. 15 and Sept. 15, capping a year of strong hostname growth. The huge gain appears to have come almost entirely from the registration of new domains that are now parked at Zipa, which added just 15,000 active sites on the month.

The company gained widespread notice during Hurricane Katrina, when its staff labored to keep its operations online as the city was battered and flooded. InterCosmos' domain registrar business, DirectNIC, is housed on the 10th and 11th floors of a 27-floor office tower near Lafayette Square, a portion of New Orleans that escaped the worst of the flooding. Employees live-blogged their efforts and posted photos of the storm's impact on the DirectNIC facility. An on-site webcam broadcast video of looting on surrounding streets.

DirectNIC is the world's 11th-largest registrar, with more than 1.1 million domains registered. In 2003 Intercosmos paid just $250,000 to acquire a finished Enron Corp. data center in a bankruptcy sale. The 6,600 square foot New Orleans facility now hosues the shared hosting and colocation operations of Zipa.com.

Newton · 10-28-2005

Nice going guys .. very nice

MorganGrayson · 10-28-2005

Peaches · 10-28-2005

Awesome! Hard work has its rewards

slavdogg · 10-28-2005

haha thats funny
i bet i'm the only one that gets it

Peaches · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by slavdogg

haha thats funny
i bet i'm the only one that gets it

I don't get it cuz I'm blonde...but so are you!

Dravyk · 10-28-2005

Congrats, guys!!

And damn I hope Buff gets one helluva bonus out of this!

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Originally Posted by slavdogg

haha thats funny
i bet i'm the only one that gets it

Ok, so splain it, Luuucy.

Peaches · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by Dravyk

Congrats, guys!!

And damn I hope Buff gets one helluva bonus out of this!

Ok, so splain it, Luuucy.

I don't think Buff works there, lol!

10-28-2005	#1
TheEnforcer Scored VIP to Anton's Piss Tank Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,781	Grats to InterCosmos Group http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20...s_katrina.html Zipa Gains Nearly 1 Million Sites As It Weathers Katrina Hosting The past two months have been an extraordinary time for the InterCosmos Group, which operates a network of Internet companies in New Orleans. The company's colocation and hosting unit, Zipa, gained 990,000 hostnames between Aug. 15 and Sept. 15, capping a year of strong hostname growth. The huge gain appears to have come almost entirely from the registration of new domains that are now parked at Zipa, which added just 15,000 active sites on the month. The company gained widespread notice during Hurricane Katrina, when its staff labored to keep its operations online as the city was battered and flooded. InterCosmos' domain registrar business, DirectNIC, is housed on the 10th and 11th floors of a 27-floor office tower near Lafayette Square, a portion of New Orleans that escaped the worst of the flooding. Employees live-blogged their efforts and posted photos of the storm's impact on the DirectNIC facility. An on-site webcam broadcast video of looting on surrounding streets. DirectNIC is the world's 11th-largest registrar, with more than 1.1 million domains registered. In 2003 Intercosmos paid just $250,000 to acquire a finished Enron Corp. data center in a bankruptcy sale. The 6,600 square foot New Orleans facility now hosues the shared hosting and colocation operations of Zipa.com.

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Newton It's always business, never personal! The POWER of radio Oprano Radio Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On a golf course Posts: 4,916	Re: Grats to InterCosmos Group Nice going guys .. very nice __________________ Poser Bush in a mix-up over his hi-tech gizmo - ICLOD

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Peaches Members Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Hills of N. GA Posts: 10,823	Re: Grats to InterCosmos Group Awesome! Hard work has its rewards __________________ Peaches@onlinebeach.com ICQ# 36734533