Announcements, Press Releases, Registries

LogicBoxes Partners with Genious Communications

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.

 

Industry News

Domain Name Industry Brief – 2012

Here are quick stats from Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief.

The fourth quarter of 2011 closed with a base of 225 million+ domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs). This amounts to an increase of 5.9 million domain names, or 2.7 percent over the third quarter.

The base of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) was 90.6 million domain names. This is a 4.2 percent increase quarter over quarter, and a 13.2 percent increase year over year in the base.

.COM and .NET TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of 113.8 million domain names in the fourth quarter of 2011. This represents approximately a 2 percent increase in the base over the third quarter of 2011 and an 8 percent increase over the same quarter in 2010.

There is no change in the order of the top 10 TLDs in the fourth quarter of 2011. The order is: .COM, .DE, .NET, .UK, .ORG, .INFO, .TK, .NL, .RU and .EU.

Total Domain Name Registrations


You can view the entire Verisign Report here.

Pic Courtesy: Verisign DNIB Report

Announcements, Events, Industry News

Catch us at WorldHostingDays ’12!

The LogicBoxes Team will be attending WorldHostingDays Global 2012 at Rust, Germany.

Siddharth Taliyan, our Senior Sales Manager, will be speaking about ‘The Benefits of ICANN Accreditation’ on March 22nd, 2012 at 4pm, at the event.

The session, titled ‘Demystifying ICANN Accreditation’, will shed more light on the following areas:

  • How much does ICANN Accreditation really end up costing?
  • What are the hidden costs?
  • What regulations do ICANN Accredited Registrars need to abide by?
  • When should I look at getting my company ICANN Accredited?
  • Is ICANN Accreditation really worth it?
  • Siddharth and Daniel will also be available to help with on-the-spot ICANN Accreditation Consultations at Booth #61. They can also assist you with any queries that you might have about becoming your own Domain Registrar.

    You can schedule a meeting with us on our website here. Looking forward to meeting you WHD!

    Announcements, Current Promos, Industry News, Registries

    .RU Domains Names Available on OrderBox

    Registrars and partners will now be able to use sell .RU domains from OrderBox.

    Apart from second level .RU domains, third level domains under .COM.RU, .NET.RU and .ORG.RU are also available for registration.

    To give you a perspective of the size of the ccTLD, since its inception in 1994 , .RU has amassed about 3.6 Million+ Domain Registrations so far.

    Total number of domain names in .RU (2003-2011)

    Pic Courtesy: .RU Co-ordination Center

    Registrars: If you need any help in marketing this ccTLD, please contact your respective Account Managers.

    Announcements, Current Promos, Press Releases

    LogicBoxes Partners with Yovole

    We are happy to annnounce our partnership with Yovole Communications to help them achieve ICANN Accreditation and to increase their domain extension portfolio. This partnership allows Yovole to leverage on ICANN Accreditation branding and provides access to 45+ Domain Name extensions from LogicBoxes.

    As an advantage of being ICANN Accredited, Yovole will now be able to further establish its brand as a serious player in the domain name industry. This will certainly ensure in better volumes of business for the company in the days to come.

    Yovole’s choice of partnering with us is based on LogicBoxes’ extensive experience in assisting and managing ICANN Registrars. The partnership also gives Yovole access to OrderBox – LogicBoxes’ Registrar Automation Solution, that will allow Yovole to provide its customers with ancillary web products like Web and Email Hosting, Do-it-Yourself Website Builders and Digital Certificates.

    Commenting on the partnership, Qiuzhiwu, Product Director at Yovole said, “LogicBoxes helped us understand the Accreditation process – something that would have been very time-consuming for us to learn first-hand. We’ve saved a lot of resources by partnering with them.”

    “A lot of web hosts and large domain resellers are now realizing the advantages of ICANN Accreditation”, said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director at LogicBoxes. “We’re glad to partner with Yovole and trust that we will help them further boost their business in all aspects.”

    About Yovole:

    Yovole, founded in 2001, provides internet value-added services to SMEs in China, with their main business being IDC (collocation); IBS (internet basic service, e.g. domains, web hosting, cloud computing, etc.) and SaaS (Hosted Exchange , SharePoint, etc). It has 170+ employees that are based out of Shanghai (HQ) and Beijing, Chengdu & Guangzhou. The company has over 100K customers. It is also a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with competencies in hosting and server platforms.
    For more information, please visit http://www.yovole.com