Web Hosting Blog – BELLEVUE, WA – eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesale registrar, today announced the launch of a new portal, org.eNom.com, designed to drive awareness of the multiple uses for the .ORG top-level domain name (TLD).  The new .ORG marketing portal features information to help companies and organizations learn how to best use the .ORG TLD in order to create programs around corporate and social responsibility.

“We believe that .ORG is a powerful and universal brand,” said Chris Sheridan, vice president of business development for eNom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Demand Media™. “Through our partnership with The Public Interest Registry (PIR), we have leveraged our content creation platform to develop a destination that can educate people on the benefits of the .ORG TLD.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – Los Angeles , CA - Namecheap.com, a leading domain registrar based in Los Angeles, has responded to a recent video showing the CEO of GoDaddy shooting at a parade of elephants in Zimbabwe, killing one. Namecheap has offered a domain transfer special offering all of those disturbed by these actions a cost-effective way to transfer their domains to Namecheap.com. Twenty percent of the revenue generated for each domain transfer is being donated to a charity organization, Save The Elephants.

In the past 24 hours, the social media space was up in arms when the discovery of the video surfaced, bringing GoDaddy to trending topics on Twitter. Said one representative of Namecheap. “All of us at Namecheap were very disturbed by this video. Elephants are an endangered species and hunting these for any reason is something we feel strongly against. Feedback from GoDaddy customers also showed they felt strongly about such practices so we have launched a special offer allowing them to move away from GoDaddy. Our domain transfer special allows you to transfer your com/net/org domains out of GoDaddy for $4.99 using coupon code BYEBYEGD and we will donate 20% from each transfer to Save the Elephants.”
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Web Hosting News – BELLEVUE, WA - eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesale registrar, today announced the launch of a new portal, org.eNom.com, designed to drive awareness of the multiple uses for the .ORG top-level domain name (TLD). The new .ORG marketing portal features information to help companies and organizations learn how to best use the .ORG TLD in order to create programs around corporate and social responsibility.

“We believe that .ORG is a powerful and universal brand,” said Chris Sheridan, vice president of business development for eNom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Demand Media™. “Through our partnership with The Public Interest Registry (PIR), we have leveraged our content creation platform to develop a destination that can educate people on the benefits of the .ORG TLD.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Reviews – LogicBoxes announced today that it now empowers over 5 million domain names, through 50,000 resellers, across 90+ ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars, in 240 different countries.

With the domain name industry growing rapidly in the past 5 years, LogicBoxes has been a pioneer in providing domain registry and registrar solutions. Through its unique offering of a Registrar Automation Platform, LogicBoxes now powers over 5 million domain names across 50 top level domains (TLDs) such as .com, .org, .net, .info and several country code top level domain (ccTLDs) such as .ca, .nz, .uk (the ccTLDs for Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom respectively). Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting Reviews – REGENSBURG & SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s technology center, Silicon Valley, is host to the 40th rotating ICANN Meeting. The international Internet branch is getting together from March 13 – 18, 2011, to discuss the latest developments around nTLDs and more. InterNetX, based in Regensburg, is one of the leading registrars worldwide and, as a silver sponsor, will be present with its own company booth at this first ICANN event of the year. Conference participants will get more detailed information from the ICANN accredited registrar about over 300 ccTLDs and gTLDs it has on offer – as well as individual server and SSL solutions, that also fall under the product portfolio of the Internet Service Provider.

The results of the previous meeting in Brussels, where ICANN and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) discussed controversial questions surrounding nTLDs, will be presented at the upcoming meeting. ICANN has however, already announced that there will be no final decision for the applicant guidebook for new generic top level domains in San Francisco, as there have been further delays caused by political intervention. So far, nobody is able to provide any definite dates for the progress of the latest version of the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook. What is certain though, is that the 41st meeting in Jordanian Amman has been cancelled due to political unrest – the island and city-state, Singapore, has been selected as the alternative location. Read the rest of this entry »

Website Hosting – Tokyo, JAPAN – GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry today announces it will work together with Hitachi, Ltd. to apply for and operate the new generic Top Level Domain, “.hitachi”.

Worldwide there are 21 gTLDs in use (“.com” “.net” etc.) including restricted domains like “.edu” and “.gov”. Internet governing body, ICANN is set to expand the existing generic top level domain space and as a result several organizations and regional governments have already announced plans to acquire new gTLDs when applications open this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Website Hosting – Vancouver, WA – Dotster.com, a leading global domain name registrar and security solutions specialist, today introduced a corporate class website security solution built around Thawte® SSL Certificates.

By offering two types of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection from Thawte, a globally recognized certificate authority, Dotster can offer its domain registration and website hosting customers a range of security solutions for both large corporations and up and coming ecommerce websites. Thawte’s quick yet robust authentication allows companies to easily secure their websites without the hassle typified by other SSL providers. Meanwhile, Thawte’s state-of-the-art encryption protects online transactions, communications and data exchanges. Read the rest of this entry »