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The LogicBoxes team will attending the Parallels Summit 2013 at Las Vegas, USA. With over 700 companies and 1200 folks in attendance, the conference has grown since last year!
And we’ll be at the venue to consult on ICANN Accreditation and its important relevance to hosting companies and domain resellers. So if you’re in or around Las Vegas from 4th to 8th of February, you can catch us at The Caesars Palace. You can also schedule a meeting with us in advance here.
Hope to see you there!
We’ve recently added .NL and .CN to our TLD portfolio on OrderBox. With this update, the top 10 most popular TLDs are now available on OrderBox. For reference, this list includes the 9 largest TLDs available in the market today! (Source: VeriSign DNIB, Dec ’12)
.NL – the ccTLD for Netherlands, was introduced in the year 1986 and is the first ccTLD ever to be registered. Currently .NL is the 5th largest ccTLD by count in the world and the 9th largest TLD overall. The year on year trends of .NL domain names is given below.
.CN, the ccTLD for China, was introduced in the year 1990. Currently .CN is the 4th largest ccTLD by count and 8th largest TLD overall. The year on year trends of .CN domain names is given below.
Registrars: Please contact your respective Account Managers for more details on these two new TLDs available on OrderBox.
.SX, the official ccTLD for St. Maarten, is now available on OrderBox.
Branded as the ‘Hottest new TLD of 2012’, the .SX domain is associated with adult content and falls in the same bucket as .XXX. The .SX Registry is managed by SX Registry SA and they’ve partnered with OpenRegistry to provide the back-end Registry services.
Anyone can register a .SX domain name without any restriction or requirement for local presence on the Island.
Registrars: Please contact your Account managers for introductory pricing and white-labeled marketing collaterals.
Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Voice of LogicBoxes – our bi-annual newsletter on the OrderBox platform. We’ve been mighty busy these past few months in enhancing the functionality and usability of the system. And here’s a select list of important updates that have been implemented in the past 6 months:
That’s it for this edition of the Voice of LogicBoxes. If you have any queries about the same feel free to comment and let us know!
Pic courtesy – @Doug88888
ICANN has recently publicized the list of new gTLD applicants and the strings that will compete with the 22 existing generic TLDs and 290 odd ccTLDs that exist today.
A total of 1930 applications have been received. These constitute 1409 unique strings. Over the next couple of year, some of these strings will be open for public use and will most certainly change the way we use the internet on a day-to-day basis!
Here’s more details on the applications –
Top Contested TLDs:
Classification of TLDs:
Global Distribution of TLDs:
Largest Applicants (in terms of no. of applications submitted) include:
The entire list of applicant details can be found on ICANN’s Website.
You can get more information about the new gTLD process on http://newgtlds.icann.org. Further insights can be gained on ICANNWiki’s New gTLD page as well.
Pic courtesy newgtlds.icann.org