Announcements, Industry News, Registries

.ORG Numbers from the latest PIR Newsletter

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Registry operator for the .ORG domain extension have published their bi-annual report last week.

Here are some key insights from this report:

  • .ORG domains have crossed the 9.6 million registrations mark
  • Registrations in 2011 have increased by 9.9%. This number was 9.7% for 2010
  • .ORG experienced a consistent rate of increase, at 4.4 percent in the second half of 2011, compared to 4.7 percent in the first half.

Yearly Growth of .ORG Domains


Top 10 Markets by Country

Over and above the management of .ORG, PIR has also announced its intention to pursue the .NGO new gTLD.

You can read the entire report here: http://pir.org/pdf/dashboard_2H_2011.pdf.

Announcements, Industry News, Press Releases, Registries

LogicBoxes Partners with .BZ Registry

We are pleased to announce our partnership with the .BZ Registry, University Management Ltd. to provide business automation solutions to their in-house Registrar arm, BelizeNic.

.BZ is the country code top-level domain for Belize. Prior to partnering with us, BelizeNic was using a legacy system to sell .BZ domains. The Registry was looking to migrate to a stable and flexible platform that would allow it to expand its product suite and deliver better customer experience.

LogicBoxes has now setup BelizeNic on its proprietary Registrar platform – OrderBox. Additionally, we completed the migration and transition without affecting their existing customers.

Post migration, BelizeNic has inherited the ability to manage its customers and provide them with a more inclusive set of web services like Web & Email Hosting, Website Builders and Digital Certificates.

BelizeNic also has plans to target nearby territories in the coming months. To facilitate these future plans, they will be realizing localized sites, complete with country-specific currency and multi-lingual options with the OrderBox infrastructure.

As a growing trend, many Registries are establishing their own Registrar entity to tap into local markets. Often the first stop for customers looking to purchase domains in smaller ccTLD spaces, this model successfully serves the customer’s best interest. It also gives the Registry greater control over marketing activities and complements the work done by foreign Registrars in creating awareness and increasing purchase channels.

“Initially we did have concerns about the transition but the LogicBoxes team quickly allayed them when they swung into action,” says Juan Carlos Namis, General Manager, BelizeNic. “Thanks to this partnership, we now focus on more important business activities and leave the day-to-day tasks to be handled by the LogicBoxes platform automation.”

“We’re excited to be partnering with BelizeNic. We’ve spent a lot of development time creating a local’ solution for Registries who want to take control of direct sales to customers. This has allowed us to partner with multiple ccTLDs across the world and we look forward to helping BelizeNic better serve their customers,” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, LogicBoxes.

About University Management LTD:

University Management LTD (UMLTD) was founded on October 2000 in order to manage, market and promote the “.BZ” top-level domain name and Internet related services such as web hosting and specialized IT training. In collaboration with strategic partners, the company plans to offer internet solutions including domain name registration, web hosting, co-location servers, DNS services, POP/web-based e-mail and .BZ directory services to its customers. For more information, please visit: http://nic.bz.

Announcements

OrderBox CSV Reports

Here’s another update from the OrderBox side of things: We’ve completely revamped the way reports are handled in the system and have created an improved Reporting Module.

We’ve gone back to the drawing board to completely re-think the flow of data and usability for this new module.

And one of the biggest features of this module is that Registrars and Resellers can now export data from the system in .CSV format.

The reports available are:

  1. Balance Reports
  2. Contact Details
  3. Customer Details
  4. Forex Report
  5. Payment Gateway Report
  6. Product Orders – Digital Certificates
  7. Product Orders – Domains
  8. Product Orders – Web Services
  9. Product Orders – Multi Domain Hosting
  10. Product Orders – Reseller Hosting
  11. Receipt Report
  12. Reseller Details
  13. Sales Report
  14. Tax Report
  15. Transactions with Customers
  16. Transactions with Parent Reseller
  17. Transactions with Sub-Reseller

The above data will help Registrars and Resellers get a much better (and factual) grip on their day-to-day business numbers and help them make strategic decisions for their future activities.

This is just the first revamp phase of the Reporting module. In the coming months, we are planning to add more enhancements and increase the functionality for this module. More updates to follow soon!

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