Industry News, Registries

“.Asia Celebrity Pioneers Program” Launched

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DotAsia Organisation announced the launch of its groundbreaking Celebrity Pioneer Program, offering celebrities worldwide the priority to register their name with .Asia before the public “landrush” launch on February 20, 2008. Early adopters announced included the latest major motion picture release from the director of Kung Fu Hustle, CJ7. The movie will start to utilize “www.cj7.asia” to promote its release in the next few months.

Under the program, celebrities from entertainment, art, culture, sports, business, politics, academia, are invited to participate as Celebrity Pioneers. Celebrity names are often neglected in the startup of a new domain registry. Yet they are often highly vulnerable to cyber-squatting. Through the Celebrity Pioneers Program, renowned individuals can utilize their .Asia domain to reach fans all over Asia for their next concert, movie or tour, while protecting their personal brand online.

Announcements, Registries

.Com/.Net Unavailability Notice: 27 January 2008

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The .Com/ .Net Registry will be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance on Sunday, January 27, 2008 UTC as per the following schedule:

Maintenance Window
Date – Sunday, January 27, 2008 UTC
Time: 01:00 hrs – 01:45 hrs UTC
Duration: 45 Minutes
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.

This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which will continue to work properly. Please feel free to get in touch with our Support team, in case of any queries/doubts.

Announcements, Registries

.MN, .BZ and .MOBI Unavailability Notice: 26 January 2008

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The LogicBoxes .MN, .BZ and .MOBI products will be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:

Maintenance Window
Date – Sunday, January 26, 2008 UTC
Time: 15:00 hrs – 19:00 hrs UTC
Duration: 4 Hours
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.

This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which will continue to work properly. Please feel free to get in touch with our Support team, in case of any queries/doubts.

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.NAME Registry Downtime – Final Notice

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As previously informed, the .NAME Registry will be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance on January 20, 2008 as per the following schedule:

Maintenance Window

Date – January 20, 2008
Time: 0300 hrs – 0500 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 2 hours

Affected Systems:– Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management on the Live interface.

We hope that you have suitably informed your Sub-Resellers and Customers of this Registry-imposed downtime. Please feel free to contact our Support Team should you have any queries.

Industry News, Registries

Nominet Establishes Charitable Foundation

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Nominet today announces the creation of the Nominet Foundation, a charitable organisation that will fund education, research and development initiatives in the UK Internet industry.

Nominet Board and membership give go-ahead for Foundation to be launched in Summer 2008

First year donation of £5 million will fund education, research and development.

Nominet today announces the creation of the Nominet Foundation, a charitable organisation that will fund education, research and development initiatives in the UK Internet industry.

Having received backing of the Nominet board and broad support from the Nominet membership, The Foundation will aim to launch in Summer 2008 with a first year donation of £5 million.