Lycos Europe to close portal, end Web hosting
Lycos Europe announced on Wednesday plans to shutter its portal and Web-hosting business and find a buyer for three other areas of its business.
The company, which last month announced a 20 percent drop in revenue to 46.9 million euros ($60.8 million) and a net loss of 17.1 million euros, said the decision was made after reviewing its strategic options for several months.
Offshore hosting firm HavenCo lost at sea • The Register
Controversial hosting provider HavenCo – which operated from the ‘nation’ of Sealand, an old naval fort off the coast of Suffolk which was declared a ’sovereign principality’ by its quirky owner Roy Bates – has finally gone offline.
As of last week, the HavenCo website is gone and the domain is now hosted outside the Sealand subnet.
Founded in 2000 by Bates’ son and Michael with $1m in seed money, the company initially offered an everything goes-policy along with an offshore fat-pipe data haven. Child pornography, spamming and malicious hacking were strictly prohibited, but with no restrictions on copyright or intellectual property for data hosted on its servers, file-sharing certainly looked like a possibility.