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We are glad to announce the inclusion of thawte ‘Additional Licenses’ to our ever-expanding product portfolio.
LogicBoxes now allows users to use a single certificate to secure multiple servers through thawte ‘Additional Licenses’.
Apart from being the pioneers in the Digital Certificates industry, thawte is also one of the most reliable brands in the market today. As always, we are offering you this product at the most competitive pricing.
The following compliance projects, intended to improve Whois data accuracy and Whois service accessibility, are underway by ICANN.
I. ICANN Commences Whois Data Accuracy Study
Over the years ICANN constituencies and others have observed apparent inaccuracies in Whois contact information provided by registrants when registering and maintaining their domain names. In an attempt to contribute to community discussion regarding Whois policy, ICANN has undertaken a study of domain name Whois contact information accuracy.
Please be advised that the LogicBoxes System will be undergoing a planned downtime on 29th December, 2007 as per the Maintenance Window given below.
Why this downtime?
The Downtime has been scheduled for system upgradation and an extensive database migration. This downtime will ensure improved system performance, responsiveness and long term scalability.
The time frame for the migration has been selected after much deliberation and we have attempted to schedule it in a fashion that would cause our Registrars and their resellers and customers the least possible inconvenience. The 29th being on a weekend, allows us to make the necessary upgrades without significantly encroaching on regular business hours.
Also, we suggest that you and your Customers renew any Orders that might be up for Renewal before the 29th itself, in order to avoid them from expiring on account of the Downtime.
Adapting to the recent gTLD pricing changes, we have split the .COM and .NET TLDs such that pricing for each TLD can be set independent of the other.
As the 2 TLDs are now priced very differently, we believe that this split should help you offer .NET domains at a much lower price as compared to .COM domains.
We recommend that you change your .NET pricing right away, and begin offering the TLD at a better price to your customers and resellers.
For more information on how to change your pricing, please click here.
We hope that our efforts will help you offer a competitive proposition in the price sensitive domain market.
As always, please feel free to contact your LogicBoxes Account Manager for any further assistance that you may need.
The .ASIA registry has launched the “Pioneer Domains Program” which is designed to award .ASIA domain names to applicants based upon relevant content and business plans. Applicants for the Pioneer Domains Program will also be required to submit a deposit in most cases, which will be refunded if the registry does not award them the domain name in question.
This Program consists of three categories:
Community Pioneer: which is open to individuals, businesses and other organizations that wish to apply for generic words;
Global Brand Pioneers: for “well-established brand owners to develop active and relevant Web sites and services; and
Partner Pioneers: which is designed for accredited registrars, technology and service providers to promote the .ASIA extension.
While the Sunrise period is designed to provide comprehensive protective measures for trademark owners, the registry says the Global Brand Pioneers category “offers proactive brand holders who are committed to the Asia community the .ASIA domains that best match their mark and businesses.”
For the Community Pioneer Program, Applicants are expected to fill in the application form and also include a brief proposal outlining:
Business and Marketing Plan: describing the concept and proposed scheme for the .Asia domain, along with activities and ideas for promoting the domain;
Operations and Financial Support: resources and support available for viability of the initiative and to execute on the proposed plans; and,
Community and Social Considerations: commercial and social benefits to the community
In order to qualify for the Global Brand category, the registry says a brand must have or demonstrate:
Trademark registrations in multiple countries and/or regions, with at least one in Asia;
Significant investment into the development and promotion of the corresponding brand online and offline; and,
Substantial sales threshold in connection with goods and services associated with the mark.
Although marketing commitment deposit is not applicable for partner Pioneer Program, commitments and pledges for the provision of complimentary, considerably discounted or exceptionally favorable terms of services or products to DotAsia will be required.
Detailed information and application forms can be found at: http://pioneer.domains.asia/.