Type of site Hosting service Owner Melen, LLC Website www.t35hosting.com | Available in English Created by Alex Melen | |
Headquarters Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, United States | ||
T35 Hosting is a web hosting company founded in March 1999 by Alex Melen. By 2009, T35 Hosting was providing hosting to over 600,000 websites and was ranked 7,000 on Alexa, capitalizing on the closure of Geocities. Alex Melen & T35 Hosting have been featured on BusinessWeek's Best Entrepreneurs Under 25, Bloomberg Top 101 Best Freebies, YoungBiz Magazine, Babson College Student Business of the Year and ResellerClub's HostingCon.
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Hoshiko, LLC Patent Claims
In 2009, The PTO rejected all 20 patent claims by Hoshiko, that were used against T35 Hosting, claiming the internet sub-domains is too obvious to patent.
Joseph Stack
T35 Hosting was the hosting provider for Joseph Stack, implicated in the 2010 Austin suicide attack. The FBI allegedly requested that T35 Hosting take down Stack's website manifesto following the suicide attack. Within minutes of the event, T35 Hosting received thousands of emails demanding Stack's words be reposted.
Botnet Attacks
On April 29, 2010 David Anthony Edwawrds and Thomas James Frederick Smith plead guilty to building a custom botnet to attack T35 Hosting and ThePlanet.com. Using the botnet, Edwards and Smith broke into T35 Hosting, defaced the website, and posted username and passwords to the public.
Hacking Attacks
T35 Hosting services were abused and used in several phishing and hacking attacks including the attack on Habbo. T35 Hosting's free hosting service was also used in various security experiments, including M86 Security Lab's identification of vulnerabilities in McAfee's Secure Short URL Service in 2010 and Imperva's cross-site scripting vulnerability profiling. The continued abuse lead to T35 Hosting's member sites being listed in many back lists, including Denmark's censorship list and eventually lead to the discontinuation of the free hosting services.