Announcements

LogicBoxes will be at ICANN’s 66th Meet in Montreal

Posted on by amrita

We have an exciting month ahead of us at LogicBoxes. Why, you ask? ICANN66 Montreal is set to take place from 2nd – 7th November 2019 in (of course), Montreal. Before we dive into the event details, let’s step back a bit. 

As the last major registrar/registry focussed event of the year, this ICANN conference is the perfect time to catch up with our clients and colleagues from the industry to discuss the failures and successes of 2019 and what 2020 promises.

LogicBoxes’ Focus & Future plans

We’ve had a pretty great 2019 at LogicBoxes. Some of the key initiatives that really gained momentum this year were:

1. Vertical Integration Program for registries

LogicBoxes for a number of years has been the leader in providing vertical integration solutions for registries (ccTLDs and New gTLDs). Our solution enables registries build a retail storefront for their TLDs to capitalise on their marketing efforts and communicate their core value proposition which is extremely difficult to do via the usual registrar channel. This year due to our roadshows, we gained significant interest and new partnerships with some of our prospects. This proved to be a huge success for us in terms of revenue and customer growth.

2. Registrar Automation Program: 

LogicBoxes, for many years has been known as the go-to platform provider for ICANN Registrars and hosting companies that intend to become known in the near future. 2019 proved to be immensely successful for this program due to the fact that more and more hosting companies that were growing in customers wanted to have more control over their domain pricing and strategy. This therefore saw a rise in the number of ICANN Accreditations we did for such companies who now use our platform for their domain business as registrars. Additionally, existing ICANN registrars looked to outsource their domain business to a solid platform to reduce overhead operational costs that have significantly increased due to continual compliance and legal burdens/pressure/mandates being put on registrars. 

We look forward to sharing more details about these initiatives at the ICANN66 conference meet. 

About ICANN66 Montreal

The 66th meeting of ICANN will be hosted by the official hosts, Rendez-vous Montreal 66. The aim of RVM 66 is to increase the impact of the ICANN meet for all participants, globally. 

The ICANN66 meeting in Montreal is a free meeting, open to the general public. The  event details are below.

Event Details

Dates: 2 – 7 November 2019

Location: Palais des congrès de Montréal

1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Montréal

Tel: +1 514 871 8122 | +1 800 268 8122

Schedule & Mobile App: https://66.schedule.icann.org

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the event! 

We’d love if you share pictures from the event and tag us on Twitter @logicboxes.

See you there!

Articles, Voice of LogicBoxes

The Voice of LogicBoxes: Vol. 13

Posted on by Neha Mestry

Hello folks, we’re back with our 13th edition of the Voice of LogicBoxes! 

Is it just us or is 2019 really travelling at the speed of light?  We won’t be surprised if we blink and find out that it is Christmas time already! All right, jokes aside, Q3 has been quite a packed quarter for us. Our teams have spent a lot of time, effort and resources on a bunch of system changes. Let’s go through each one of these in this post, shall we?

PRODUCT UPDATES

.CO Birthday Sale: The .CO domain extension completed 9 years of its existence. To celebrate the occasion, we ran a 10-day promo wherein we offered .CO domains only at $1.39! More details here.

  • Important Updates on .ES Relaunch: We relaunched .ES, the ccTLD of Spain, at a price of $7.79. This price is now applicable on new registrations, renewals and transfer-ins. More details here.
  • Price Revision of WordPress Add-ons: We revised the prices of the WordPress Add-ons that we offer with effect from August 5, 2019. You can find out all the details here.
  • Discontinuation of Impress.ly Orders: Basis the feedback we received as well as the trends spotted in the usage patterns, we decided to discontinue new adds for Impress.ly, our very own website builder. Please note that this change does not affect any existing orders. More details here.
  • Registry Price Revisions for .BIZ and Donuts TLDs: Owing to the price hikes announced by the .BIZ Registry as well as Donuts Inc., we revised our selling pricing for a host of TLDs which will go into effect from November 1, 2019. More details here.
  • Domain Privacy Updates for .NZ: The .NZ Registry recently imposed some contractual obligations with respect to handling contact information associated with their domain names. Owing to this, we had to make some changes in the registration and management of .NZ domains registered for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) with effect from September 30, 2019. More details here.
  • Introducing Plesk Add-on on dedicated Servers: We launched Plesk Add-ons for our Linux and Windows Dedicated Server plans which start from a slow as $5.49 per month. More details here.
  • Transfer-out Emails: We made some improvements in our domain transfer-out authorization process. As per the new process, the transfer-out link now leads to a transfer confirmation landing page on which, the user is required to explicitly click on the ‘Decline Transfer’ button to confirm their intention to cancel the transfer. More details here.

SYSTEM UPDATES

  • Important Updates on Company Name Change: The new legal entity name of our company has been changed from ‘Directi Web Technology Private Limited’ to ‘Endurance International Group (India) Private Limited’. We sent out an email communicating a list of instructions that our partners will need to follow moving forward. More details here.
  • Important Updates on Reseller Agreement: We revised our Reseller Master Agreement which now bears a change regarding all domain orders under your Reseller account which are on our (PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com) Registrar credentials. More details here.
  • Launch of RDAP: Owing to ICANN’s mandate, we launched the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) on the LogicBoxes platform on August 12, 2019. More details here.

Apart from all this, we also ran three monthly domain name promos where we offered over 80 TLDs at discounted prices. In case you wish to take a look at the TLDs that are available on discounts, you can visit our Promos page.

To stay updated on all activities at LogicBoxes and other important industry news, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Until next quarter,

Team LogicBoxes

Articles, New gTLDs

TLD Tuesdays (Vol. 7): .GLOBAL

Posted on by Neha Mestry

With globalization scaling new heights, international boundaries are blurring rapidly. Brands and people, alike, are striving to increase their reach across the globe, regardless of geographical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. This is exactly how small businesses, as well as social media influencers from the most remote parts of the world, are being able to reach a global audience in their hopes of making it big. 

Having a website is imperative to establish a global presence. Moreover, having the perfect domain name extension in your website URL can make all the difference when it comes to enhancing this global presence further. There is one such domain name which perfectly fulfils this purpose – .GLOBAL

A Little History on .GLOBAL

.GLOBAL is a New gTLD which was delegated to the DNS root zone on 6th June, 2014 and was made available for the public to register on 9th September, 2014. Very close to completing their 5-year anniversary, this nTLD has seen 49K+ registrations to date. 

The registry operating .GLOBAL is the Dot Global Domain Registry Limited, while the Registry’s backend services are handled by Afilias in partnership with CloudNames, a Norwegian gTLD consultancy and management services company.

Who is .GLOBAL meant for?

  • Startups and SMBs who wish to expand their reach in the global market
  • Bloggers and vloggers
  • Social media influencers
  • Businesses that cater to the global audience
  • Travel agencies who organise tours all across the world
  • Online stores
  • Non-profit organizations

Why should you sell .GLOBAL

.GLOBAL truly is a borderless TLD in the sense that it enables businesses, organizations, and individuals to operate in a worldwide capacity. Besides, this TLD also supports multiple scripts and special characters.

This is a promising TLD in terms of its appeals, and thereby its potential to help end-users do more with their online presence. Offer this unique and succinct New gTLD today to help your audience further reach out to a much wider audience.

To make things more convenient for you, we have a fantastic promo available on .GLOBAL TLDs which will remain active throughout the month. Don’t forget to check that out!

We hope you make the most of this promo while also offering a valuable domain name to your customer base.

Until next Tuesday,

Team LogicBoxes

Announcements, Industry News

Monthly Bulletin: August 2019

Posted on by Neha Mestry

Hello folks!

It’s been a while since we published our last edition of the monthly bulletin, but we’re back after this not-so-brief hiatus! In this post, we’re covering some of the important events and developments from our industry that took place in the month of August. 

1. Neustar takes control of two new gTLDs: Neustar recently took control of two new generic dot-brands viz. .COMPARE and .SELECT. These nTLDs previously belonged to iSelect – an Australian insurance company. The two TLDs have been assigned to Registry Services LLC, a new Neustar subsidiary. Ever since this move, everyone is waiting for Neustar to announce its plans for the said new acquisitions.

2. Google is set to launch .NEW with an innovative value proposition: Although Google has not revealed its exact plans for expanding the scope of the usage of .NEW domain names, reports reveal some insight.  They indicate that Google has ambitious plans to slowly release .NEW domain names with usage-based restrictions to a strategically controlled customer base from Q1 2020 onwards. It’s widely known how typing doc.new, spreadsheet.new, and slides.new in the browser leads the user to a new tab that opens a Google Doc, Spreadsheet and Slides, respectively. It’s quite possible that the new plan may involve Google letting brands use the said domain name in the same fashion.

3. Amazon, Google, and their fight for .KIDS: One of the longest-fought new gTLD contests for the nTLD .KIDS finally came to an end with both Amazon, and Google, losing the fight to a not-for-profit bid. Amazon withdrew its application for .KIDS which left the Honk Kong-based DotKids Foundation the only remaining applicant for the TLD. The fight between the applicants was settled privately.

4. Puerto Rico’s ccTLD, .PR turns 30!: .PR, the country-code top-level domain name that represents Puerto Rico in the online world reached the 30-year milestone, having offered 30 years of service to the Puerto Rican internet community as well as the public relations industry on August 27, 2019. Today, .PR is home to thousands of websites not just from Puerto Rico but also from across the globe.

5. Under the radar DDoS attacks rise by 158% in Q2 2019: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have given lots of businesses a hard time in the past, and they are only getting more frequent with time. According to a recently published Cyber Threats and Trends research report from Neustar’s Security Operations Centre (SOC), it’s evident that the rate of DDoS attacks saw a 158% rise in the second quarter of 2019 as compared to the same time last year.

These were some of the significant newsworthy events from August 2019. We hope this post helped you catch up with information from the industry that made headlines. Watch out for more in this space in September!

Articles, Current Promos, New gTLDs, Products

TLD Tuesdays (Vol. 6): .LIVE

Posted on by Neha Mestry

It’s a new Tuesday, and we’ve got you a new post from our TLD Tuesdays series. This Tuesday, our TLD in focus is .LIVE.

Everyone these days is kicked about sharing their favourite moments with the rest of the world while they happen. Be it live-streaming a concert, a sports match, a newsworthy event, or a travel vlog – it’s all about “living in the moment”. .LIVE is the best TLD for anyone who has fresh content to share. 

Let’s dive deeper into the significance of this interesting New gTLD, shall we?

A Little History on .LIVE

.LIVE is operated by the Rightside Registry. Both, the TLD, as well as the registry operations, are managed by Donuts (Half woods, LLC). .LIVE was delegated to its root zone on July 8, 2015, and was made available to the public for registrations on October 28, 2015.

Interestingly, Microsoft and Google were among the list of applicants for .LIVE initially. However, a private auction conducted in 2014 resulted in Donuts grabbing the rights to the string.

Who is .LIVE meant for?

  • YouTubers
  • Bloggers
  • Vloggers
  • Online coaches/tutors
  • Broadcasters of sports events, music concerts, etc.
  • News channels
  • Media and Entertainment companies
  • Anyone with real and fresh content to share

Why should you sell .LIVE

People all across the world are busy capturing content because they are passionate about sharing the same with the world instantly. Not only is this new gTLD short, crisp, and easy to remember but it also makes for the perfect keyword that any real-time content creator would want to monetize on.

This pool of enthusiasts who want to make the most of the technology and make content instantly accessible to people across the world is huge and is only growing. Tapping into this market is a golden opportunity and we really want you to not miss out on it!

To make things more convenient for you, we have a fantastic promo available on .LIVE which will remain active throughout the month. This gives you a chance to buy .LIVE domains from us at an incredible price of only $0.99, and then resell them further at a profit!

We hope you make the most of this promo while also offering a valuable domain name to your customer base.

Until next Tuesday,

Team LogicBoxes