Category: Press Releases

Be it a new business partnership, a Partner growth story, a major product launch, or a policy revision, we ensure that all newsworthy events are issued as a public statement on all the important industry news portals. You can be the first person to learn about all our major announcements by simply following this category. This repository of posts keeps you updated with all the latest developments that take place at our end and also enables you to track the ones from the past.

Announcements, Events, Press Releases

Parallels Summit 2011: Catch Us There!

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Parallels Summit 2011

The LogicBoxes Team will be at the Parallels Summit 2011.

Our CEO,  Bhavin Turakhia will be speaking at the event about Enterprise Chat for Customers of Web Hosts. Daniel Fernandez and Viram Lodhia will be at the venue to help with on-the-spot Accreditation consultations and much more.

So if you’re in or around Orlando, Florida between the 22nd and 24th of this month; you can catch us at The Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center.

You can schedule an appointment with us for a ‘no-cost, no-obligations’ feasibility analysis for getting your company ICANN Accredited.

Do drop by our booth (#123) and say hello & get a caricature of yourself! 🙂

Announcements, Press Releases

Demystifying ICANN Accreditation Screencast

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Our latest webinar on ICANN Accreditation was a smash hit!

And we broke a couple of records along the way:

  • 115– the highest attendance for a theWHIR webinar till date
  • 320 – the highest number of registrations for a theWHIR webinar till date

We thank all those who attended the webinar and made it a huge success. For those who missed out on this informative programme, here’s the screencast:

You can grab the presentation slides here.

P.S: A special thanks to Tim Cole for his valuable assistance with the webinar

Announcements, Industry News, Press Releases

ICANN & LogicBoxes Webinar: Demystifying ICANN Accreditation

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In our 6+ years of successfully helping companies receive ICANN Accreditation, we’ve accumulated a list of common questions that every company aspiring for ICANN Accreditation is bound to ask.

We plan on answering all these questions through a simple interactive presentation that can help companies (including web hosts) objectively assess their ICANN Accreditation plans.

Almost all of the largest companies in the web products and services industry are ICANN Accredited. These include big names such as 1&1, Go Daddy, The Planet, Lunarpages, HostGator, etc. And every year, scores of web services companies (webhosts, domainers, web design companies, internet focused law firms, etc.) apply to obtain an ICANN Accreditation. They do this for varied reasons, which range from the obvious cost advantages to the slightly more strategic reasons such as branding, the tapping of additional revenue opportunities, etc.

Needless to say, every company has to tread with caution; ICANN Accreditation is an important step. It takes money, time and effort.

Not everyone that applies for an ICANN Accreditation really needs it. More importantly, however, not everyone that applies has what it takes to handle the Accreditation.

The webinar aims at answering ICANN Accreditation questions like:

  • How much does an ICANN Accreditation really end up costing? What are the hidden costs?
  • What rules and regulations will companies need to abide by if they get ICANN Accreditation?
  • When or at what stage should I look at getting my company ICANN Accredited?
  • Is ICANN Accreditation really worth it?

The presentation will be ably supported by Tim Cole, Chief Registrar Liaison from ICANN. Tim will be providing an ICANN’s perspective on what you can expect from the Registrar Accreditation process.

Why are we the best people to talk about this topic?
Because LogicBoxes (through its service Accreditation.com), has helped accredit over 15% of the world’s Registrars. We also power the domain registration software of industry powerhouses like UK2.net, ResellerClub, WordPress and HostGator 🙂

You can register yourself for this webinar at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/854462531

Details:

Topic: Demystifying ICANN Accreditation
Date: 20th January, 2011

Panelists:
1. Tim Cole, Chief Registrar Liaison from ICANN
2. Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, Registrar Solutions Group, LogicBoxes

Moderator: Liam Eagle, Chief Editor, theWHIR

Catch you there! 😉

Announcements, Press Releases

LogicBoxes launches .CA on its Registrar Automation Platform

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LogicBoxes announced today that it launched the .CA ccTLD (Country Code Top-Level Domain) on its Registrar Automation Platform.

The LogicBoxes Registrar Automation Platform currently powers over four million domain names, hosted by over 80 Domain Name Registrars accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as well as thousands of domain name resellers from around the globe. These Registrars use the platform to connect with the various domain name registries, such as VeriSign, Affilias, NeuStar, etc., to register domain names (.com, .net, .info, .in, .us, .uk, etc.) on behalf of their customers. The SAAS-based registrar platform currently supports over 50 top-level domains (TLDs), including some of the world’s largest ccTLDs such as .uk (the ccTLD for the United Kingdom) and .cn (the ccTLD for China).

Adding .CA to the list of available registries to its clients is the obvious next step for LogicBoxes. .CA domain names are reserved exclusively for Canadians. With over 1.5 million .CA domain names registered, 88% of Canadians surveyed agree that Canadian businesses and organizations should use .CA domain names for their websites.

“.CA experienced growth of 16% in 2009. We’re very proud of our success, particularly considering that gTLDs grew at only 6% that year,” says Byron Holland, President and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the corporation that manages the .CA domain space. “I am pleased to welcome LogicBoxes to our family of accredited Registrars offering .CA domain names and look forward to their contribution to the .CA domain space.”

Said Bhavin Turakhia, CEO and Founder of LogicBoxes: “North America has always been an important market for us, pretty much since our inception. Today, our platform powers many of that region’s most significant players and given that, this was an inevitable move for us. We’re inspired by the .CA growth story and we (along with our network of 80+ ICANN-accredited Registrars and 50,000+ resellers) are glad to be part of it.”

About LogicBoxes:
The LogicBoxes Registrar Automation Platform is a state-of-the-art SAAS based platform that enables Registrars to connect with over 50 TLDs in one quick step and go live as a fully functional Registrar almost immediately. The platform currently hosts over 80 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars and thousands of Domain Name Resellers from across the globe and powers over 4 million Domain Names.

About CIRA:
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority is the member-driven organization that manages Canada’s .CA domain name registry, develops and implements policies that support Canada’s Internet community, and represents the .CA registry internationally. CIRA processes over 600 million requests per day to connect Internet users with over 1.5 million .CA Internet addresses.

Announcements, Press Releases

HostGator partners with LogicBoxes to power its Registrar

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LogicBoxes announced today that HostGator, one of the world’s leading Hosters, will be using its Registrar back-end to launch their long awaited registrar offering under the brand name of Launchpad Inc.

This is another example of what is now becoming a growing trend of Hosters becoming Registrars. LogicBoxes, through its unique offering, has been a key facilitator in allowing web hosting companies to claim the many benefits of becoming a registrar, whilst avoiding the corresponding increase in regulatory and technical hassles.

HostGator’s transition from reseller to Registrar is expected to happen by early 2011. They have also confirmed that the migration, which is being handled in consultation with LogicBoxes, will be completely seamless, with zero impact on their existing customers and resellers.

This move will provide HostGator greater control over their domain name operations, strengthen their brand, and afford them better pricing on domain name registrations.

“The LogicBoxes Registrar Automation Platform allowed us to avoid having to ‘Reinvent the wheel’, so to speak,” said Brent Oxley, Founder & Chairman of HostGator. “We realized that we’d have far greater ROI on our development resources by engaging them in perfecting our core products, viz. Hosting, rather than having them build Registry connections and manage all of its related tasks.”

“Our Platform represents a single point of Integration to over 50 popular TLDs across the internet, so companies like HostGator can effectively use the platform to go live as their own Registrar within a few weeks. And as we constantly add new TLDs, features to handle new ICANN and Registry policies, etc. to the platform, HostGator’s one-time integration effort is enough to always keep them on top of the ever-changing marketplace,” said Bhavin Turakhia, CEO & Founder of LogicBoxes.

“This is a Win-Win collaboration – HostGator is an important player in the industry and we’re proud to have them onboard. There is a lot of synergy between both companies and we see this as a long-term partnership between both sides,” concluded Turakhia.

About HostGator:

HostGator.com is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting services. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 7,000 servers under management.