New Cpanel/WHM Reseller Hosting Plans

We will shortly be re-organising our existing reseller plans and introducing Cpanel Hosting. New Weycrest Multi Domain hosting gives you the freedom, power and flexibility to host Multiple domain names pre-defined Disk Space and Data Transfer limits. True Multiple Domain Name Hosting has finally arrived in the UK. Why pay for single domain hosting, when you can host multiple websites in a Weycrest Multi Domain account? Designed for reseller hosting, affiliate marketing and ideal for pay per click (PPC) marketeers, or just those that want to administer several domains from one easy to use hosting account. Below are the proposed prices and specifactions but there will be a "special deal" for the first 200 customers. Plan 1 1GB Disc Space 20 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Unlimited POP3 £9.99/month Plan 2 2 GB Disc Space 40 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Unlimited POP3 Personal Nameservers £19.99/month Plan 3 3 GB Disc Space 60 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £24.99/month Plan 4 4 GB Disc Space 80 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £29.99/month Plan 5 5 GB Disc Space 100 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £34.99/month Plan 6 6 GB Disc Space 120 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £39.99/month Your Weycrest reseller account also includes your own personalised nameservers on Plans 2-6. (ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com). Personalised nameservers come with 2 dedicated IP addresses at no extra cost. You will need to contact your domain register to register them, and then assign them to your domains. (we will provide instructions on how to do this in our new support WiKi). Our Network is hosted within a 14,000 sq.ft raised floored data centre in, Stratford London. The facility offers complete redundancy in protected power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity and on-site manned security. The network will make use of Coreix's infrastructure which employs Juniper M40 routers at the core, Foundry BigIron 8000 switches in the distribution layer and Cisco 3500 series switches for the aggregation layer. The customer layer for dedicated services currently utilizes Cisco 3500/2900 Workgroup series switches. More information contact sales (at) weycrest.com. The new reseller plans will be available and added to the ordering system from 1st September 2006

Wayne Rooney takes action over WayneRooney.com

The England - Manchester United footballer has taken the current registrant of WayneRooney.com, a Mr Huw Marshall from Wrexham, to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva in an attempt to recover his domain name. This follows hot on the heels of other high profile celebrities (including author and politician Lord Archer) who won back his dot.com. TomCruise.com is case is still pending review. Mr Marshal also registered WayneRooney.co.uk so we will see if Mr Rooney presses Nominet for a DRS review.

Weycrest Add Joomla! Hosting

Weycrest have added popular CMS system Joomla to their "one click" Application Vault. Joomla! (as if you didn't already know) is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems in the Universe. It's been employed all the world and used for everything from very simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easier to install, simple to manage, and reliable, and requires very little web development skills to produce a professional result. More information on Joomla Hosting can be found at http://www.weycrest.co.uk/php-hosting.php. A more detailed page entirely dedicated entirely will be in place shortly.

ICANN formalises relationships

Recently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN for short) exchanged letters and signed agreements under its Accountability Framework program with seven top level registries for country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs). These included: .uk (United Kingdom) .lv (Latvia) .cx (Christmas Island) .nf (Norfolk Island) .na (Namibia) .cl (Chile) .de (Germany) More information can be obtained by going to ICANN's official website at www.icann.com. Nominet was the latest addition to the list, representing UK domain name registration. Nominet will join ICANN's country-code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) being the largest national registry to do so since the inception of the ccNSO in 2003.

Weycrest expand into Coreix

Following recent space and power restrictions imposed by Redbus Interhouse, Weycrest has started colocating within Coreix. Unlike Redbus which is "only down the road" on the Isle of Dogs, Coreix is based in the Stratford in E15, within the VSNL facitility which is still very local (two stops on the Jubilee Line from Canning Town) or about 25 minutes by bike (we are very slow peddlars ;o)). On a serious note, Coreix boasts good support - genuine 24/7 response and excellent infrastucture. Their Network operates in a 14,000 sq.ft raised floored state-of-the-art data centre which offers complete redundancy in protected power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity and on-site manned security. Coreix's core network architecture utilises high quality equipment from Juniper, Foundry and Cisco, which is setup in a fully redundant mesh it allows us to offer high availability and exceptional throughput to our end users. Whilst Weycrest will be taking Coreix/Dedimax transit in the short term (we are impressed with the speed and resilience of their network) we are not ruling out setting up our own fibre interconnects from Telehouse North. Last week we housed a test server on a new HP Proliant Server. Its likely Coreix will house our Virtuozzo VPS hosting stack, and give us the ability to expand our dedicated server and colocations offerings.

74,000 .eu registrations suspended

EURid, the .eu registry, who created a team to investigate registrations where there is some doubt as to whether the registrant is actually based in the European Union and therefore eligible, has now suspended 74,000 .eu domains. It was revealed a small number of companies had created thousands of phantom registrars with the aim of registering .eu domain names with a view to warehousing for sale at higher prices later on. Eurid claimed its investigations into phantom registrars is ongoing and had also suspended an unknown number of domains where there was some doubt over whether the registrants were resident in the EU. Even well known domain registrars managed to bungle things in the .eu debacle. Namesco (owners of domain registration brand Simply.com) failed to gain simply.eu despite having a Europe wide trademark, loosing out to a Danish registrant who got his application in a few days before them. Weycrest will be offering .eu domain registration shortly.