Tag: Registrars

Announcements, Current Promos, Press Releases

LogicBoxes Crosses 6 Million Domains

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We’ve now crossed the 6 Million mark for Domains registered through our platform – OrderBox.

It took us a little under a year to grow from 4 Million to 5 Million Domains, a milestone we crossed at the start of this year. Comparatively, the latest Million was achieved in just over 9 months!

We owe this achievement to our extensive channel partner network that includes 90+ ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars and over 60,000+ Resellers. Every partner has access to a basket of 50+ Domain Name extensions and Web Service products like Web Hosting, Email Hosting, Website Builders and Digital Certificates. This has allowed each partner to quickly setup successful online businesses and play a first-hand role in increasing the online penetration of their local region.

“We’ve been consistently introducing newer TLDs and products into the system to ensure that our Registrars have all the tools they need to capture their target markets,” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, LogicBoxes. “We’ve also been working closely with various Domain Registries to garner the best domain rates for our Registrars and plan on further boosting these activities in the coming months.”

Over 20% of the world’s ICANN Accredited Registrars have been accredited through our consultancy service. LogicBoxes’ product portfolio includes a comprehensive provisioning & management platform for various web products and services such as Domain Registration, Windows/Linux Web Hosting, Email Hosting, SSL, Website Builder etc. LogicBoxes recently launched their FREE DNS Service and other products such as Domain and Mail Forwarding and Chat (IM) are expected to go free shortly.

ICANN Announcements

ICANN Strengthens Registrar Accreditation Applications

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As per their latest announcement, ICANN has recently introduced an enhanced set of terms and conditions for Registrar Accreditation Applications.

The company says that this step is a result of community input that called for the strengthening of the requirements for registrar accreditation, and to address changes that have arisen in the registrar marketplace.

While they haven’t mentioned the specific enhancements, they’ve publicized a partial list of changes. This incudes:

  • Stronger terms governing the accuracy of the information provided by the applicant and an ongoing obligation to maintain accurate information during the course of the application process
  • Granting ICANN permission and indemnification for conducting additional due diligence checks
  • Sets forth in greater detail the application process and obligations

These terms and conditions will be applicable on all applications received on or after October 5, 2011.

UPDATE: 10th October, 2011

We’ve done an analysis of the exact changes and have enlisted them here for everyone’s reference:

1. Individual & Sole proprietorships are ineligible for accreditation

2. The applicant can withdraw a submitted application and the one-time application fee will remain valid for one year. However, if before the application is resubmitted, the one-time application fee is increased, the applicant will have to pay the difference.

3. ICANN reserves the right
a. to use the name and logo of the applicant wrt the application
b. Share the info rmation in the application with relevant third parties for the purpose of due-diligence
c. Disclose / share / publish any info rmation from the application including any personal, technical and financial info rmation

4. ICANN indemnifies itself from any damages / loss caused to the applicant, by way of the review process or if the application is rejected

5. If the applicant wishes to keep any part of the application confidential, he can do so according to a set of guidelines laid out by ICANN

6. ICANN explicitly mentions that it must comply with all U.S. laws, rules, and regulations and the fact that it cannot work with any country/company/individual on which US has imposed sanctions

7. ICANN also mentions that any additional information / documents that it requests, must be provided within 72 hours

Key take-aways:
Make sure your application is complete, accurate, consistent and thorough right from the start. This is even more important than before, and can hardly be stressed upon enough. Ensuring so, will avoid unnecessary delays and iterations. Since there will be third part investigating agencies involved, we expect the delays due to iterations to be longer than usual.

Found this post useful? Need help with ICANN Accreditation? You know who to contact 😉

Announcements, Industry News

CENTR’s Latest Domain Wire Report

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The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) recently released their latest DomainWire Stat Report for 2011. This can be found on the CENTR Website.

Quick stats from the detailed report:

  • The largest ccTLD is still .DE followed by .UK, .NL. RU, .EU and .CN in order
  • The 20 largest ccTLD Registries manage together around 63 million domain names representing 75% of all ccTLD domain names globally

Global TLD Breakdown:


It’s going to be interesting to see whether the new gTLDs might affect the growth of these ccTLDs in any way. What do you think?
 

Announcements, ICANN Announcements, Industry News, New gTLDs

ICANN Launches Website for new gTLDs

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newgTLDs.icann.org is ICANN’s new micro-site dedicated to new gTLDs. According to ICANN, this new website is designed to provide quick and easy access to all aspects of the new gTLD process.

With the new website, ICANN has also released the latest draft of the Applicant Guidebook. You can view this document here. All the changes made since the last version of the Guidebook can be found in this pdf document.

It’s great to see ICANN making the path to new gTLDs even more clear!

Announcements, Industry News, Press Releases

LogicBoxes Partners with WHMCS

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LogicBoxes has partnered with WHMCS to provide seamless integration between the WHMCS Client Management, Billing & Support Solution and OrderBox – our proprietary Domain Registrar automation software.

With the new dedicated module, any Registrar using the LogicBoxes’ OrderBox platform and wanting to use WHMCS can do so, letting them take advantage of the fully automated domain registration & management interface that WHMCS provides.

WHMCS has been working with Resellers using OrderBox for a long time, and with this partnership, it will begin offering a dedicated LogicBoxes Registrar module for the WHMCS platform.

The OrderBox platform allows a Domain Registrar to completely manage their Web Services business. Automated handling of Finance & Billing, Sales & Marketing, Customers, Resellers & Products ensures that every Domain Registrar experiences smooth functioning of their day-to-day activities. You can find more details on OrderBox here. And now coupled with WHMCS, tasks such as registering domains, changing nameservers, viewing/updating WHOIS info, locking/unlocking, and more can all be done by a Registrar without needing to leave his websites client management system.

“We’re very excited to be partnering with LogicBoxes. Although we’ve been working with their API for a long time, I expect this new partnership will mean we can work closer together and develop an even better integrated solution for our mutual users.” said Matt Pugh, President/CEO from of WHMCS.

Commenting on this partnership, Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, LogicBoxes said “This partnership is another step in our efforts to help smooth out business processes for our Registrars. We’re happy to partner with WHMCS and trust that this will benefit all parties involved.”

About WHMCS
WHMCS was founded back in 2005, with the aim of offering an all-in-on Client Management, Billing & Support Solution specifically aimed at web hosts. Integrated with all the major control panels, over 100 payment gateways, and now LogicBoxes, WHMCS can help automate every aspect of your business, from initial customer signup & ordering, to recurring billing/invoicing, to support via the built in help desk. WHMCS is a secure, extendable and scalable solution for businesses of all sizes.