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The LogicBoxes team will attending the Parallels Summit 2013 at Las Vegas, USA. With over 700 companies and 1200 folks in attendance, the conference has grown since last year!
And we’ll be at the venue to consult on ICANN Accreditation and its important relevance to hosting companies and domain resellers. So if you’re in or around Las Vegas from 4th to 8th of February, you can catch us at The Caesars Palace. You can also schedule a meeting with us in advance here.
Hope to see you there!
.SX, the official ccTLD for St. Maarten, is now available on OrderBox.
Branded as the ‘Hottest new TLD of 2012’, the .SX domain is associated with adult content and falls in the same bucket as .XXX. The .SX Registry is managed by SX Registry SA and they’ve partnered with OpenRegistry to provide the back-end Registry services.
Anyone can register a .SX domain name without any restriction or requirement for local presence on the Island.
Registrars: Please contact your Account managers for introductory pricing and white-labeled marketing collaterals.
We are pleased to announce that .PRO is now LIVE on OrderBox. This is the latest addition to the basket of TLDs available on the platform.
We also have an exiciting introductory promotion on this TLD that provides discounted pricing on registrations! Registrars, please contact your respective Account Managers for details on this promo and to get marketing collaterals.
Background on .PRO:
Launched in June 2004, .PRO is the Top-Level Domain for professionals across the world. Registrations were initially restricted to lawyers, accountants, physicians and engineers in France, Canada, Germany, UK and the US.
However in September 2008, it was relaunched as a TLD open to a wider audience of certified professionals across the world.
As of July 2012, over 160,000 .PRO domains have been registered by users all over the world. Moreover, it has seen an immense growth in monthly additions by achieving an average of 6,500 .PRO domains registered every month.
What is the use of a .PRO domain name?
Using a .PRO domain automatically identifies the registrant to their customer base as an accredited expert in their field. Any licensed professional, business and organization is eligible to register a .PRO domain.
As per the current .PRO registration data, the most common registrant professions include Consulting, Real Estate, Engineering, Internet, Law & Information Technology.
Consequently, you can use a domain name for any of the following uses:
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:
Classification of TLDs:
Global Distribution of TLDs:
Largest Applicants (in terms of no. of applications submitted) include:
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
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:
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:
If you have any questions about these new upgrades or about our agile development processes, feel free to comment and let us know!