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.eu Domains

Thursday 21 May 2026

Great news: we are now an accredited EURid partner! As the official manager of .eu domains for the European Commission, EURid shares our passion for a secure, reliable, and independent online environment that boosts the European digital economy. For us, this accreditation is a major leap forward in delivering true digital sovereignty within the EU. What does this mean for you? Even faster domain registrations and seamless service. Ready to showcase your European roots? Claim your .eu domain toda...

KPN "Safe Internet"

Tuesday 17 March 2026

KPN is increasingly enabling "Safe Internet" on existing internet connections. As a result, ports that most consumers do not use are blocked by KPN. This may block FTP traffic (File Transfer Protocol, port 21) as well as unsecured email ports (587, 110, and 143). For email, we recommend always using the SSL version of the mail server. Port 587 becomes 465, port 110 becomes 995, and port 143 becomes 993. Please note that you must also change the security method in your email program ...

Bot traffic on your site

Thursday 12 March 2026

How to Protect Your Website from Data-Hungry AI Scraper BotsAI models need massive amounts of data to grow. To fuel this growth, AI companies deploy armies of automated bots to scour the web and scrape as much content as possible. These bots store every piece of information they find to train their AI models—and they are visiting your website right now. Traditionally, bots (like search engine crawlers) operate quietly in the background. They work step-by-step, limit their requests to a ...

IceHosting 21 years!

Wednesday 01 October 2025

IceHosting is celebrating its 21st anniversary today! At 21, you are officially financially independent—and IceHosting has proudly been just that for years. Behind the scenes, we continuously invest in premium quality servers that deliver top-tier performance. We also have a fantastic, dedicated development team building our own proprietary software in-house. On top of that, we work closely with trusted partners like InterDC to hit that 100% uptime target year after year!