Vlad

DNS hosting

• ZoneEdit – free for up to 5 domains and reasonable queries. Useful as a back-up tool but could be used for primary nameservers too. Design does look a bit outdated.

Info and troubleshooting

• IntoDNS – web 2.0 design, very user-friendly – generates a full report on your DNS records health. Thumbs up to ElvSoft!
• RobTex – very detailed. I like the graphs it generates:

From Google Blog:

We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

Good thing they’re keeping their mojo in the clouds: