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Ever faster deliveries… do customers really want them?

  • 21 October 2014
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Web stores compete among each other, promising the fastest delivery – a trend eagerly met by logistics companies. But is the financial and ecological cost of that fast delivery really...

Important security advisory about Drupal 7

  • 16 October 2014
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Yesterday, an important vulnerability has been found in the source code of Drupal 7. This issue concerns a problem that allows hackers to execute about any query on your Drupal database by means...

Attention à la fraude liée aux noms de domaines

Beware of domain name scams !

  • 14 October 2014
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If you get a phone call from someone who tries to sell you a .com or .eu variation of the domain that you have registered in the .nl or .be...

Amazon may well have its .buy, but .amazon is probably not in the cards…

  • 10 October 2014
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Tough luck for Amazon: it will probably not get to be the operator of the new .amazon gTLD. There is one comfort though: it is not the only company that...

Startups.be, the new partner of the Cloud Angel Webfund

  • 8 October 2014
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The Cloud Angel Webfund (www.combell.fund), which Combell launched a few months ago, is now strengthened by the addition of Startups.be. Startups.be is a one-stop shop for Belgian technology start-ups and...

Combell and 2000 others attended Drupalcon in Amsterdam

  • 7 October 2014
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Between the 29th of September and the 3rd of October, Amsterdam was the hub of everything Drupal-related. Drupalcon is the name of the event and we were there. We were...

Amazon purchased .buy, but who will get hold of .app or .book?

  • 6 October 2014
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The battle is on to decide who will manage some very attractive new gTLDs. Amazon has already managed to snatch .buy away from Google. But both giants will have to...

Pope Francis sets a good example with scholas.social!

  • 2 October 2014
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A crowdfunding initiative – not for companies but for schools. And it was not launched on the Internet with a traditional gTLD: it went live with a new .social extension....

Citic swaps its .com for its own brand gTLD

  • 1 October 2014
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Besides .gent, .vlaanderen, .hotel and .shop, several domain extensions have also been launched for brands. And Citic is the first gTLD that replaces the eponymous .com domain name with its...

There is no need to be afraid of the Shellshock bug

  • 30 September 2014
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Thanks to Combell’s swift action, there is no need to be afraid of the Shellshock bug. In recent days, you have probably heard about the so-called “Bash bug” or “Shellshock...

Plopsa – No more sleepless nights thanks to Combell

  • 29 September 2014
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Sebastien Momerency, Manager Digital Marketing at Plopsa, is on cloud nine thanks to the Cloud hosting services provided by Combell. This is his testimonial: 5 amusement parks, 2.7 million visitors...

Put your .GENT, .VLAANDEREN or .BRUSSELS in the queue for registration

  • 29 September 2014
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The launch of the new Belgian gTLDs is about to happen! For .GENT, registration will be open to all starting mid-November, while for .VLAANDEREN and .BRUSSELS, the public will have...