Tag: Registry

Announcements

New Branding Interfaces on OrderBox

Posted on by Amreen Bhujwala

We’ve revamped the ‘Branding Settings’ interfaces on the Registrar and Reseller Control Panels.

Earlier text-heavy pages have been given a cleaner, crisper and lighter look. With this new design, we’ve clubbed all branding-related tasks under one central section. Further sub-sections can be easily accessed by a navigation bar on the left.

We have clubbed these existing branding-related sections into one global space:

  • SuperSite and PartnerSite Branding
  • Control Panel Branding
  • Control Panel – Shopping Cart Integration Settings
  • Name Server Branding
  • URL Branding

Ed’s note: Yes, OrderBox is very customizable 😉

Our main focus has been on simplifying the branding tasks by:

  • Providing visually descriptive screenshots/icons to explain branding functions
  • Revamping architecture of pages for Registrars and Resellers so that they can easily navigate to all branding tasks
  • Simplifying and organizing functions into short easy steps
  • Creating no-frills interfaces, with only necessary information to perform tasks
  • Providing descriptive help information for better guidance

This is now live in OrderBox!
 

Announcements, Industry News, Registries

.XXX now LIVE on OrderBox

Posted on by admin

The .XXX domain extension is now fully LIVE on OrderBox. After a minor delay, the Registry went live with General Availability of .XXX a few hours ago. Domains will now be available on a First-Come, First-Serve basis.

Registrars: Please contact your respective Account Managers if you have any queries about .XXX domains. We’ve got ready-made collaterals for you to use in your marketing activities.

In their latest Press Release, Stuart Lawley, CEO of ICM Registry commented:

“While adult entertainment is enjoyable to many adults, it is not appropriate for all audiences. We created .XXX to address the unique needs of the online adult entertainment industry. The public response has been overwhelming as consumers and the adult entertainment providers are excited about the benefits and infinite possibilities of .XXX.”

Announcements, Current Promos, Press Releases

LogicBoxes Crosses 6 Million Domains

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We’ve now crossed the 6 Million mark for Domains registered through our platform – OrderBox.

It took us a little under a year to grow from 4 Million to 5 Million Domains, a milestone we crossed at the start of this year. Comparatively, the latest Million was achieved in just over 9 months!

We owe this achievement to our extensive channel partner network that includes 90+ ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars and over 60,000+ Resellers. Every partner has access to a basket of 50+ Domain Name extensions and Web Service products like Web Hosting, Email Hosting, Website Builders and Digital Certificates. This has allowed each partner to quickly setup successful online businesses and play a first-hand role in increasing the online penetration of their local region.

“We’ve been consistently introducing newer TLDs and products into the system to ensure that our Registrars have all the tools they need to capture their target markets,” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, LogicBoxes. “We’ve also been working closely with various Domain Registries to garner the best domain rates for our Registrars and plan on further boosting these activities in the coming months.”

Over 20% of the world’s ICANN Accredited Registrars have been accredited through our consultancy service. LogicBoxes’ product portfolio includes a comprehensive provisioning & management platform for various web products and services such as Domain Registration, Windows/Linux Web Hosting, Email Hosting, SSL, Website Builder etc. LogicBoxes recently launched their FREE DNS Service and other products such as Domain and Mail Forwarding and Chat (IM) are expected to go free shortly.

Announcements, Industry News

CENTR’s Latest Domain Wire Report

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The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) recently released their latest DomainWire Stat Report for 2011. This can be found on the CENTR Website.

Quick stats from the detailed report:

  • The largest ccTLD is still .DE followed by .UK, .NL. RU, .EU and .CN in order
  • The 20 largest ccTLD Registries manage together around 63 million domain names representing 75% of all ccTLD domain names globally

Global TLD Breakdown:


It’s going to be interesting to see whether the new gTLDs might affect the growth of these ccTLDs in any way. What do you think?
 

Announcements, ICANN Announcements, Industry News, New gTLDs

ICANN Launches Website for new gTLDs

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newgTLDs.icann.org is ICANN’s new micro-site dedicated to new gTLDs. According to ICANN, this new website is designed to provide quick and easy access to all aspects of the new gTLD process.

With the new website, ICANN has also released the latest draft of the Applicant Guidebook. You can view this document here. All the changes made since the last version of the Guidebook can be found in this pdf document.

It’s great to see ICANN making the path to new gTLDs even more clear!