After ending last year with 978,000 registrations, Belgium’s .be ccTLD has finally reached 1 million registrations. Despite a sluggish economy, .be has experienced solid growth. Earlier this week, we reported that every year for the last six years it has broken the previous growth record. Jo Van Gorp, general manager …
February, 2010
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15 February
Registration record for .be ccTLD broken for sixth year in a row
For the sixth year in a row, the Belgian .be domain has broken the registration record set the previous year. Last year, 232,746 .be names were registered– a 4.4% increase from 2008. Given the huge popularity of ccTLDs lately, this news isn’t surprising at all. DNS BE, the operator of …
July, 2009
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16 July
Google runs Belgian data center without chillers
Because of the intense heat generated by servers, most data centers use equipment called chillers to cool water before circulating it around the servers to reduce heat. These are expensive and use a great deal of energy, but the alternative is a bunch of overheated systems. In a new data …