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Announcements, Registries

CentralNic Registry Downtime Notice

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The CentralNic Global Registry will be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance on February 03, 2008, as per the following the schedule:

Maintenance Window
Date – February 03, 2008
Time: 0900 hrs – 0920 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 20 min
Affected Systems – Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management on the Live interface.

Please inform your Sub-Resellers and Customers suitably of this Registry imposed downtime. We shall be reminding you of the outage once again, 24 hours prior to the scheduled downtime.

ICANN Announcements

ICANN Board Recommends Action on Domain Tasting

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Suggested fee change would effectively eliminate tasting

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is looking to effectively end domain tasting with a proposal to start charging the annual ICANN fee on registrar domain registrations.

Domain tasting is the use of the Add Grace Period to test the profitability of a domain name registration. The AGP is a five-day period following the initial registration of a domain name when the registration may be deleted and a credit can be issued to a registrar.

ICANN Announcements

The Internet Is Your Business: ICANN Seeks Volunteers

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ICANN’s Nominating Committee seeks applications for six leadership positions

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Nominating Committee for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is looking for volunteers to help it with the global task of coordinating the Internet’s unique identifiers.

“The Internet is the most powerful communications tool in human history — and the incredible story is how much of this has been accomplished by dedicated volunteers,” said Hagen Hultzsch, Chair of the Nominating Committee (NomCom). “ICANN’s work coordinating the Internet’s addressing system is at the foundation of the Internet and its future — and we are always looking for people who want to make a contribution.”

Industry News, Registries

Historical First Batch of .Asia Auctions Completed with Success

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Hong Kong, 25 January 2008 – DotAsia Organization is pleased to announce today the historical smooth completion of the first batch of domain auctions for the .Asia “Sunrise” (i.e. priority registration period intended for intellectual property rights owners).

The auctions proved to be a massive success in contrast to previous chaotic rushes for domain names that leave brand owners frustrated. The average winning price for the first batch of contended auctions netted over US$1500.00 per domain, with high bids for domain names reaching beyond a few ten-thousand dollars, signifying great interest from companies to invest into the new .Asia cyberspace. A total of over 600 domain names received more than one application during the first phase of Sunrise (Sunrise 2a) which totaled around 15,000 applications.

Announcements

ICANN RDE Program Implementation

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As you might already be aware, starting June 1st 2008, you will be required to deposit all your domain data keeping in line with ICANN’s RDE Program. As part of our Services, we will be incorporating an automated mechanism to allow for these deposits to be made as per the schedule defined by ICANN for your Registrar.

We have already begun the integration process from our side and need certain feedback from all Registrars on board our Platform, so that specific requirements may be incorporated to ensure complete compliance with ICANN’s policy.

  • We need to know if you are a Registrar for any of the TLDs that we do not support e.g. .aero, .asia, .cat, .jobs, .museum. .pro, .tel, .travel etc. and if these are being provisioned by you either directly at the Registry or through another system

  • For the TLDs that we support i.e. .com, .net, .info, .org, .biz, .name, .coop, .mobi, we need to know if you are provisioning these domains through any system other than ours

Since this is a very time sensitive project, we would need your earliest response to the questions here. As per the slated guidelines, we intend to make a consolidated domain data deposit to the Escrow Agent per Registrar. We thus need to be aware of whether you handle any domain registrations outside the LogicBoxes System, thereby allowing us to accommodate for such an arrangement and work out a feasible option for you.

We would appreciate your immediate response to this email. Please contact your LogicBoxes Account Manager to discuss this further or write in to [email protected].