Tag: new gTLDs

Events

Catch us at HostingCon 2013!

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HostingCon 2013

The LogicBoxes team will be attending HostingCon 2013 to be held in Austin, Texas from June 17 to 19, 2013. Attracting over 1,900 attendees from across the world, HostingCon has been a premier event for all professionals from the Web Hosting Industry! If you haven’t registered for the event yet, register now by using the coupon code ‘LogicBoxes2013’ and save up on the registration fees.

At the event, Siddharth Taliyan, Senior Manager – Sales at LogicBoxes will be speaking on “Demystifying ICANN Accreditation” on Monday, June 17th at 9:00am. The session will shed light on the following areas:

  • What is ICANN Accreditation?
  • The Need of getting ICANN Accredited – especially with New gTLDs around the corner
  • The Advantages of ICANN Accreditation
  • Other details regarding ICANN Accreditation

Siddharth and Clifford will also be available to help with on-the-spot ICANN Accreditation Consultations at Booth #512. They can assist you with any queries that you might have about becoming your own ICANN Accredited Registrar. So if you are attending HostingCon, do come by and say Hi! You can also schedule a meeting with us in advance here.

Looking forward to meet you at HostingCon!
 

Press Releases

LogicBoxes Announces Vertical Integration Solutions for New gTLDs

Posted on by Amreen Bhujwala

Integrate-Vertically

LogicBoxes, the developer of OrderBox , a Registrar automation product currently used by over 100 ICANN Accredited Registrars, announced the launch of a new solution, ‘Integrate Vertically’, tailored to meet the needs of New gTLD operators.

The solution is meant for those New gTLD operators that wish to set-up a Registrar subsidiary to distribute their TLDs to resellers, end-customers or internal users, without depending exclusively on existing Registrars.

“The electric fence that divided registry and registrar operations since 1999 has been torn down. gTLDs will soon out-number the active Registrars but their shelf space will be very limited. Incumbent Registrars will not be able to focus on all gTLDs as they do today. New gTLD operators need to plan their distribution strategy and evaluate the need to setup a registrar subsidiary” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Business Head of LogicBoxes.

The solution consists of a comprehensive package which offers consultancy to take New gTLD bidders through the ICANN Registrar Accreditation process, front-end and back-end registrar software set-up (using OrderBox), process and compliance management (to ensure that all clients are prepared to manage Registrar functions), and even includes white-labeled end-customer support. Once integrated, all New gTLD clients will be in an advantageous position to channel their string to LogicBoxes’ existing base of 100+ Registrars and 100,000+ Resellers. You can find more information on LogicBoxes’ latest New gTLD offering on their website here: http://www.logicboxes.com/new-gtld-applicants

About LogicBoxes:
LogicBoxes is a Technology & Consultancy Company providing Business Solutions exclusively to the large players of the Web Products & Services Industry – including New gTLD Applicants, ICANN Registrars, Domain Registries, Large Web Hosts and Domain Resellers. LogicBoxes is the world’s premiere ICANN Accreditation Consultancy provider. Over 20% of the world’s ICANN Accredited Registrars have been accredited through the LogicBoxes Consultancy Service. Additionally, LogicBoxes also offers a renowned turnkey SaaS platform – OrderBox, which provides end-to-end business automation to clients. LogicBoxes currently powers over 7 Million domains across the world through an extensive network of over 100+ registrars and 100,000+ resellers.

Articles, Voice of LogicBoxes

The Voice of LogicBoxes – Vol. 4

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Here’s the fourth edition of the Voice of LogicBoxes folks!

We’ve covered all the key system enhancements and product additions, from the past 6 months, that will extend your experience of your system. Do give us a shout out if you have any questions!

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

1. DOMAIN NAMES

  • New Introductions: We’ve added 4 new extensions to the system –
    • .SX
    • .PRO
    • .NL &
    • .PW

    .SX and .PW are the newest TLDs to be re-introduced in the market. It should be interesting to see the success they can achieve before the new gTLD program kicks in later this year.

  • Internationalized Domain Names: IDNs have been introduced for .INFO, .ORG, .BIZ and .EU on the platform which will definitely help in increasing the adoption rates for these extensions, especially in non-English speaking countries

  • Super September: We ran successful promotions across a suite of domain name extensions in September 2012. With the overwhelming success of this project, we’re looking at creating this magic again in 2013!

2. WEB PRODUCTS

  • Geo –located Hosting has been rolled out for all single domain, multi-domain and reseller hosting flavors, across US, UK and India

  • Windows Reseller Hosting too has been introduced in the system and come with Plesk and WHMCS control panels

SYSTEM UPDATES

  • SuperSite 2 Rollout to all Registrars: The new Supersite has a better intuitive flow and enhances the experience of every customer – irrespective of whether they want to simply purchase a single domain or are looking at buying an entire website setup. A ton of new features like IDN support, easier customer signup flow, etc. also feature on this new interface

  • Extra secure Password Resets: As part of the many security enhancements to OrderBox, the process for retrieving forgotten and old passwords has been revamped to create a more secure environment

  • OrderBox System Mails revamped: Email notifications for every purchase in the system have been streamlined to deliver a better messaging structure to users

  • Bulk Renewal Module improvements: This module has been made more efficient to provide a better, hassle-free experience to users

  • Improved Domain Search Results via the API: This update provides more wholesome information about the queried domain name

  • Cloudflare on Hosting Packages: The robust service that protects and accelerates the performance of websites has been implemented on our hosting packages. Features of Cloudflare include a strong content delivery network, better security and in-depth analytics

That’s it for now folks. For queries, do comment and let us know!

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, ICANN Announcements, Industry News, Registries

ICANN Approves .XXX

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Its been over 10 years since the debate of having .XXX as a top level domain (TLD) started and finally, ICANN has approved the ICM Registry’s application to operate .XXX as a TLD. This decision was taken at the 40th ICANN Meeting at San Francisco earlier this year.

This single agenda has definitely generated the highest volumes of community comments than nearly any other issue ever faced within ICANN in the past.

The ICM Registry has been handed over the responsibility of operating the .XXX TLD provided there are improved and new benefits to the TLD.

All said and done, not everyone in the Adult industry has welcomed the .XXX TLD wholeheartedly. The Free Speech Coalition, a group sponsored by the Adult Entertainment Trade Association is against .XXX and the Registry’s rulings.

The Sunrise periods (3) will be starting over the coming months.

Do you see .xxx as the next “big thing” in the domain market?