August 26, 2010

Meeting and greeting at HostingCon 2010

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Last month’s HostingCon 2010 in Austin, TX was an astounding success for us and a great opportunity for all involved. More than 1000 attendees visited the Black Lotus booth to discuss distributed denial of service solutions and to try to “Recover the Booty!” from our treasure chest. Some of the booty recovered included American Express gift cards, iPods, a Nintendo Wii, Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, and a Mac Mini.

HostingCon 2010 attendees speak with Black Lotus staff

HostingCon 2010 attendees speak with Black Lotus staff

We took this opportunity to discuss our upcoming public release of the Black Lotus MitigationPro by IntruGuard, a distributed denial of service and network behavior analysis appliance that will be publicly released in September. Last year attendees expressed interest in a Black Lotus branded appliance to enable them to take advantage of the Black Lotus protection on their own network. We listened! 3,000,000 packets per second and 1000 Mbps of DDoS protection is now available to the general public at a price point of less than $12,000 per appliance. Even better, our appliances are bundled with comprehensive service contracts managed by Black Lotus’ renowned CCNA/CCNP, JNCIS, and ICDME certified network engineers. Owning a MitigationPro is like having your own DDoS protection engineers on staff.

Ping! Zine interviews VP of Operations, Shawn Marck

Ping! Zine interviews VP of Operations, Shawn Marck

During the show we spoke with hundreds of attendees in depth about their DDoS protection needs and concerns and how Black Lotus solutions will increase their security and viability while helping manage the bottom line. We were interviewed by Ping! Zine and The WHIR, two of the most prominent media outlets in the web hosting industry.

If you missed us this time you can also find us at the following venues:

  • The WHIR Networking Event at Denver, CO on August 26th, 2010.
  • The WHIR Networking Event at Phoenix, AZ on September 23rd, 2010.
  • HostingCon 2011 in San Diego, CA on August 8th through 10th, 2011.

July 19, 2010

Black Lotus Selects Afilias to Improve DNS Reliability

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DDoS protection vendor gets better value with Afilias as its new managed DNS provider


AUSTIN, Texas (HOSTINGCON) – 19 July 2010 – Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced that Black Lotus Communications has selected Afilias’ FlexDNSSM Platform to provide DNS infrastructure in support of its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection solutions. Black Lotus needed to replace its previous DNS provider in order to improve its resiliency to DDoS attacks and achieve better economy in its DNS management.

“Outsourcing our DNS allows us to focus on our core competencies and leverage numerous off-site nodes to discourage DDoS attacks against our name resolution infrastructure,” said Jeffrey Lyon, President of Black Lotus. “Since switching to Afilias, we were able to cut our costs by more than 50 percent and receive more value for about the same cost of running our own off-site nodes.”

Afilias’ FlexDNS Platform provides three different ways to utilize Afilias’ DNS network: A Web-based portal, AXFR (DNS zone transfer), or an Application Programming Interface (API). Black Lotus selected Afilias’ Web-based portal, which provides a simple, easy-to-use online interface to manage DNS settings for small or large portfolios of domains. The Web-portal also provides bulk import functionality, an advanced reporting suite, and enhanced security alerts and notifications.

Black Lotus also selected Afilias’ SiteCertainTM IP monitoring and failover service to ensure that their customers will always have a working IP address to failover to incase of emergency or compromise.

“Any organization that is providing critical services across the Internet needs to take their DNS seriously and ensure that they avoid single points of failure,” said John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services for Afilias. “We are pleased to provide Black Lotus with both a valuable and cost-effective DNS solution to enhance the resiliency and reliability of their important DDoS protection services.”

About Afilias Managed DNS Services

Afilias’ state of the art DNS network ensures security and resiliency through a diverse any-cast architecture. Its multi-layered, tiered design uses multiple hardware and software solutions, multiple bandwidth providers, and is dispersed across numerous geographic locations, ensuring no single points of failure and 100 percent up-time, guaranteed. Afilias’ system also supports DNSSEC. To learn more about Afilias’ FlexDNS platform visitwww.flexDNS.info

About Black Lotus (HOSTINGCON Booth #101)

Black Lotus Communications is first and leading in distributed denial-of-service protection solutions. The company was the first to market a commercially viable DDoS protection solution and provides protected hosting services, web proxies, IP tunnels, and the ecologically friendly LotusCloud VM, a dedicated server environment that is 16 times more efficient than its bare metal counterpart. For more information visit www.blacklotus.net

About Afilias (HOSTINGCON Booth #535)

Afilias is a global provider of Internet infrastructure services that connect people to their data. Afilias’ reliable, secure, scalable, and globally available technology supports a wide range of applications including Internet domain registry services, Managed DNS, and services in the RFID and supply chain market with its Afilias Discovery Services. For more information on Afilias please visit http://www.afilias.info.

July 15, 2010

Black Lotus Announces Platinum Sponsorship at HostingCon 2010

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Virginia Beach, VA (Vocus) July 15, 2010 – Black Lotus, a leading distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services company, announced today its platinum level sponsorship at HostingCon 2010, the hosting industry’s sixth annual convention. HostingCon 2010 will take place July 19-21 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX. Black Lotus offers specialized website hosting with DDoS services, including DDos protected hosting and DDoS protected dedicated servers (http://www.blacklotus.net/).

“We are excited to sponsor HostingCon as it provides the hosting industry a means of sharing ideas, learning about new technology and networking,” says Jeffrey Lyon, Director at Black Lotus. “This year’s theme of cloud hosting is especially relevant as Black Lotus now offers LotusCloud VM, a DDoS protected virtual solution that defeats attacks which take advantage of cloud hosting’s vulnerabilities.”

The many educational sessions offered at HostingCon 2010 include a track devoted to cloud hosting and cloud computing. Businesses interested in a DDoS protection host (http://www.blacklotus.net/hosting/) in addition to the scalability and flexibility of cloud hosting look to LotusCloud VM to receive embedded DDoS mitigation without purchasing separate services for their hosting and protection needs.

“LotusCloud VM is fully scalable, environmentally friendly and cost-effective, and is designed to drive clean traffic to your site” says Lyon. “Black Lotus has the specialized skills, technologies and bandwidth to offer an advanced DDoS protection service (http://www.blacklotus.net/) that conquers specialized DDoS attacks allowing every type of business to enjoy the 100% uptime that is critical for its success.”

Black Lotus’ DDoS protection solutions include DDoS protected servers and web hosting, colocation and remote protection. HostingCon attendees are encouraged to visit the Black Lotus booth to take part in the “Recover the Booty!” contest. Grab a key and see if your key opens the Black Lotus treasure box. While at HostingCon 2010, attendees can pick up a product sheet to learn more about effective website protection from Black Lotus, the first and leading DDoS protection services (http://www.blacklotus.net/) company.

“When businesses need 100% uptime, DDoS attacks can cost millions of dollars and in some cases, destroy a company’s reputation,” says Lyon. “Small and medium-sized businesses, ecommerce sites, companies offering hosting services, enterprise companies, or sites with highly confidential databases would benefit from our years of knowledge and expertise in DDoS protection and repelling thousands of malicious attacks every year.”

Black Lotus is a proud Platinum Sponsor of HostingCon 2010 in Austin, TX this July 19-21. Businesses with high traffic websites interested in DDoS protection services are encouraged to visit the Black Lotus booth at HostingCon 2010 to learn more about hosting with DDoS protection (http://www.blacklotus.net/).

About Black Lotus

Black Lotus has been providing robust and cost effective DDoS protection solutions since 1999. As the first and leading DDoS protection services company, Black Lotus stops robots in their tracks with advanced distributed denial of service protection delivering enterprise grade solutions at a fraction of the cost. The Black Lotus Enterprise network is the only purpose-built DDoS protected hosting (http://www.blacklotus.net/hosting/) network designed to combat distributed denial of service attacks from the ground up utilizing 100% premium name brand bandwidth. Black Lotus delivers hundreds of billions packets safely to their destination each month.

August 25, 2009

Celebrating a successful HostingCon 2009

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We’re proud to announce that on August 11th we made our first public convention appearance and met with hundreds of customers, future customers, friends, and vendors. The atmosphere was simply amazing and it did not take long to realize that our marketing budget was well spent. The event was so successful that we decided to come back in 2010 as Platinum sponsors where we’ll be unveiling a new and exciting hardware platform currently in development!

Ping! Zine put out a great review of our company in their HostingCon issue which was distributed from our booth along with various schwag from our friends and vendors.

Perhaps the most exciting part for some was the video game offering. Rather than hand out some pens, paper, or stress balls we went totally unique and setup a four station Xbox 360 lab with Call of Duty 4!

Our exhibit wasn’t just fun and games. Our company President and VP of Operations were on hand to answer questions about the company vision and products we offer.  We were commonly asked to explain the threats and challenges behind offering DDoS protection. Many visitors wanted to know how they could protect themselves and their customers. They learned about how Black Lotus has been in the business of stopping attacks for nearly 10 years and the evolution of the Black Lotus product as the world’s first commercialized DDoS protection solution.

Don’t worry if you missed this event, we’ll be back next year in full force!

Visitors playing Call of Duty 4 at the Black Lotus exhibit, HostingCon 2009

July 2, 2009

We’ve got HostingCon 2009 fever..

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Two skids wait at the dock for a July 2nd pickup with an ultimate destination in Landover, MD where they’ll be held until the show.

.. and the only cure is a prime location in the exhibit hall at the Gaylord National and more Call of Duty 4 than you can shake a stick at! August 10th through the 12th Black Lotus will be at the convention in full force rubbing elbows with customers, potential customers, vendors, industry gurus, and mostly just wasting a lot of time playing video games.

Don’t worry, we’re not the only ones who get to have fun! We’re setting up an additional four COD4 stations right in the middle of our exhibit directly at the main entrance so you don’t even have to walk far to get your game on. It’s not all fun and games though, HostingCon 2009 marks our first scheduled public appearance and a landmark opportunity to meet company executives and learn about the future of DDoS protection services. If you’ve been thinking of moving to Black Lotus the show is also a great time to learn about special offers and discounts available only to attendees!