Industry News

Domain Name Industry Brief – Stats for July’12

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The latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief is out. Here are key stats and numbers from the same:

Overview

  • The first quarter of 2012 closed with a base of more than 233 million domain name registrations across all Top-Level Domains
  • This is an increase of 7.5 million domains, or 3.3 percent, over the fourth quarter of 2011
  • Overall, registrations have grown by 23 million, a 11% increase since the first quarter of 2011
  • The ccTLD pool too has grown by 4.8% and stands at 94.9 million domain names
  • This is a 16.2% increase year over year in the ccTLD base
  • The order of the top TLDs in terms of zone size did not change when compared to the last quarter. The order remains as: .com, .de, .net, .uk, .org, .info, .tk, .nl, .ru and .eu.

Growth in Total Domain Name Registrations



You can view the entire Verisign Report here.

Events, Industry News

Catch us at HostingCon 2012!

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The LogicBoxes Team will be attending HostingCon 2012 at Boston, Massachusetts.

We will be at the venue to help with on-the-spot ICANN Accreditation Consultations and to answer any queries that you might have about becoming your own Domain Registrar.

You can also schedule a meeting with us on our website here.

You can also get a caricature of yourself and other cool LogicBoxes freebies at our Booth #327.

Hope to see you there!

Announcements, Current Promos, ICANN Announcements, Industry News

Rise of the New gTLDs

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ICANN has recently publicized the list of new gTLD applicants and the strings that will compete with the 22 existing generic TLDs and 290 odd ccTLDs that exist today.

A total of 1930 applications have been received. These constitute 1409 unique strings. Over the next couple of year, some of these strings will be open for public use and will most certainly change the way we use the internet on a day-to-day basis!

Here’s more details on the applications –

Top Contested TLDs:

  1. .App (13 applicants)
  2. .Home (11 applicants)
  3. .Inc (11 applicants)
  4. .Art (10 applicants)
  5. .Blog (9 applicants)
  6. .Book (9 applicants)
  7. .LLC (9 applicants)
  8. .Shop (9 applicants)

Classification of TLDs:

  • 1137 Generics
  • 643 Brands
  • 84 Community
  • 66 Geographic
  • 116 IDNs (covering 12 scripts)

Global Distribution of TLDs:

  • 911 from North America
  • 675 from Europe
  • 303 from the Asia-Pacific region
  • 24 from Latin America and the Caribbean and
  • 17 from Africa

Largest Applicants (in terms of no. of applications submitted) include:

  • Donuts – 307
  • Google – 101
  • Amazon – 76
  • TLDH – 71
  • Famous Four Media – 60
  • Uniregistry – 54
  • Radix – 31
  • Afilias – 31

The entire list of applicant details can be found on ICANN’s Website.

You can get more information about the new gTLD process on http://newgtlds.icann.org. Further insights can be gained on ICANNWiki’s New gTLD page as well.

Pic courtesy newgtlds.icann.org

Announcements

OrderBox Registrar Dashboard Revamped

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After months of analyzing user behavior, digging deep into numbers, speaking to Registrars and endlessly debating features and functionality, we’re extremely happy to present a utilitarian Dashboard that is crafted to bring out all the essential data and functions for our power users.

With a minimalistic, yet fresh design, the new OrderBox Dashboard comes reloaded with a host of new additions:

  1. Funds Overview
    Always be abreast of your Available Balance, Locked Funds and Pending Payments for effective Funds management. Also, Adding Funds is now available at your fingertips!

  2. Easy Management of Orders
    Now, don’t miss a single expiring order, as we’ve brought it out to help you take immediate action. Also, you can view a ready list of your latest Orders with one-click access to them. Replete with the “Preview” button, the Dashboard makes Order management a breeze.

  3. Attractive display of Promos
    Display of ongoing Promotions has been spruced up to rightfully bring some focus to them. Additionally, the Dashboard will now only display the latest announcement to increase impact and maintain an easy, clutter-free look.

  4. And of course, simpler Search
    All combined into one pronounced search bar, you can now look up any Order, Sub-Reseller or Customer by simply selecting the entity from the drop down.

And the enhancements don’t just stop here! We have gone one step further and rethought ease of use to introduce two of the most essential functions in a global avatar:

  1. Global Search – Access Orders, Customers and Sub-Resellers from anywhere in the Control Panel with our global search on the black bar.

  2. Funds Summary – This small but useful blurb helps you keep a constant tab on your Funds to make sure none of your Orders get stuck. Also, Adding Funds is now globally accessible with this little blurb.

If you have any questions about these new upgrades or about our agile development processes, feel free to comment and let us know!

Announcements, Press Releases, Registries

LogicBoxes Partners with Genious Communications

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We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Genious Communications to help them increase their domain extension portfolio.

Genious Communications is the first Moroccan ICANN Accredited Registrar and is also one of the first few ICANN Accredited Registrars from the African continent. Being ICANN Accredited has given the company a stronger advantage over its competition and has significantly impacted the brand.

The ICANN Accreditation process usually takes anywhere between 3-6 months and we assisted Genious to receive accreditation within 2 months flat! With its extensive understanding of the documentation required, LogicBoxes helped Genious get the accreditation process right, at the first go. We also helped Genious to go LIVE at various Registries by completing the technical integration and documentation in the fastest possible time.

“Partnering with LogicBoxes has allowed us to meet our business goals very quickly,” said Hamza Aboulfeth, Founder of Genious Communications. “Their business automation platform has taken away the burden of managing monotonous, day-to-day activities for domain management. We now focus all our energies on growing business”

“Africa is turning out to become a key player in the global domain market. In fact, two key global internet community gatherings have taken place in Africa recently – ICANN Dakar and the Internet Governance Forum in Kenya”, said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director at LogicBoxes. “And we trust that Genious Communications will help scale internet penetration in the continent even further!”

About Genious:
With over 10 years of experience in the field of Web Hosting, Genious Communications managed to surpass all the met difficulties, offering therefore its clients, the best products & services. Over the last year, Genious introduced Cloud Hosting & CDN with its partnership with OnApp. However, one of the best milestones was the ICANN Accreditation with the help of Logicboxes, letting Genious become the first and only Registrar in North Africa which imparted not only more credibility but a larger market to explore. For more information, please visit http://www.genious.net.