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The Voice of LogicBoxes – Vol. 3

Posted on July 25, 2012admin

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Voice of LogicBoxes – our bi-annual newsletter on the OrderBox platform. We’ve been mighty busy these past few months in enhancing the functionality and usability of the system. And here’s a select list of important updates that have been implemented in the past 6 months:

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

New Domain Extension: .RU has been successfully launched on the OrderBox platform. Registrars can now provide the following extensions to their customers – .RU, .COM.RU, .NET.RU, .ORG.RU
New Product: Reseller Hosting has been introduced in the system. Registrars can now sell both Windows and Linux Reseller Hosting with industry-leading Control Panels like WHMCS & Plesk
New Product: Multi-Domain Hosting on Windows & Linux is now available. This is a feature that a lot of Registrars had requested and we trust that this offering will help them to create a more wholesome portfolio!

SYSTEM CHANGES

Customer Control Panels have been revamped to make them more intuitive and to increase their effectiveness from a user experience perspective. In addition, the navigation structure has been streamlined and includes a clear ‘Buy’ button for all purchase-related actions
Registrar & Reseller Dashboards too have been enhanced in functionality to put frequently-used functions within closer reach of users. This includes a suite of tasks like renewal management, global search, listing available funds, etc.
The ‘Order Preview’ module has been added to OrderBox. This allows users to get a quick overview of a particular order and facilitates speedy management of orders in general
Work on revamping system-generated emails has begun. This will incorporate the feedback we’ve received from users over the past few months and will ensure that customers receive crisp and to-the-point e-mail communication
We’ve moved .UK over to EPP and have made significant changes to streamline its API functionality
The CSV Reports module has been revamped. The new enhancements provide more accurate and wholesome business data that can be used to draw trends and statistics
The Transfer-in process has been revamped to make it easier for customers to transfer in their domains to the system without using an Authorization Code
The Upgrade/Downgrade logic on the SuperSite has been shifted from a monthly calculation to a daily one. This will ensure that more accurate pro-rata figures are calculated

That’s it for this edition of the Voice of LogicBoxes. If you have any queries about the same feel free to comment and let us know!

Pic courtesy – @Doug88888

Announcements, Current Promos, ICANN Announcements, Industry News

Rise of the New gTLDs

Posted on June 26, 2012admin

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:

.App (13 applicants)
.Home (11 applicants)
.Inc (11 applicants)
.Art (10 applicants)
.Blog (9 applicants)
.Book (9 applicants)
.LLC (9 applicants)
.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, Press Releases, Registries

LogicBoxes Partners with Genious Communications

Posted on May 22, 2012admin

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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.

Industry News

Domain Name Industry Brief – 2012

Posted on March 19, 2012admin

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.