Author: Katharina

Making business with domains including typing-errors!

Lately I found an article in the “c’t magazine” with the title „Abfischen unerwünscht“ (in english: “undesired dry fish”). It´s about the possible judicial repercussion of „typosquatting”. A “typosquatting” also called as URL-highjacking is a form of cybersquatting and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typological errors made by internet users when inputing […]

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Every voice counts…

Everyone should make his or her own opinion, always and everywhere. But sometimes one needs the help and support of others. So what could be better than using opinions and experiences of existing customers as decision support. With immediate effect we offer the new category customer feedback on our website for undecided customers: Short extract:

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A Second that could make a difference and bring your server down!!! – The buggy lil ‘leap second bug’

The weekend was pretty disastrous for websites around the Internet. First, storms in United States knocked out power in Amazon’s data centres, and with it, around 1% of American websites. This included popular websites like Foursquare, Instagram, Pinterest and Netflix. Then, just as websites were hobbling back to life, the “leap second” bug struck. Timekeepers

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Our international affiliate program has been launched

Since today the launch of our international affiliate program is finally done. We were expanding our existing distribution channel of affiliate marketing and make an affiliate program available for our international affiliates as well (https://contabo.com/en/affiliate-program/). The existing German affiliate program, that markets the main products of Giga-International like V-Servers, Webhosting and Dedicated Servers already very

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We proudly present our new root server model “GIGA Dedicated Server X”

It has been announced already here and as a countdown on facebook, but now, it’s really official: Today we are introducing a new root server model in our product portfolio named “GIGA Dedicated Server X“. Some of you may think now: “Ok, this is a new server with a little bit more power!” But that

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