CentralNic Launches BuyDomains.London Campaign to Get More London Businesses Online
CentralNic announced today that they have launched a campaign to get more London businesses online and address the current lack of web connectivity and engagement for small businesses within London.
According to YouGov, more than 75 percent of London’s 841,000 SMEs will fail to register a .London domain before the 31 July deadline, after which businesses outside London will be able to register the domain name.
You can read the press release after the jump:
“Following the recent launch of the new internet top-level domain .London and of the buydomains.london website for SMEs to obtain their .london domain names, Ben Crawford, CEO of buydomains.london parent company CentralNic has launched a campaign to get more London businesses online, and address the current lack of web connectivity and engagement for small businesses within the UK’s capital city.
YouGov has predicted that over 75% of London’s 841,000 SMEs will fail to register for a .London domain name before the 31 July deadline, after which businesses outside London will be free to register the names (Federation of Small Businesses).
CentralNic and buydomains.london CEO Ben Crawford commented: “London has the potential to be the global capital of the 21st century – to the immense benefit of Londoners, and importantly SME owners. The fact that so few London businesses have their own websites is therefore a lamentable lost opportunity for London’s SMEs to participate in the internet revolution.”
“Having your own website is not only the gateway to doing business globally,” Crawford added. “It’s also increasingly become the key to doing business locally, as London residents and visitors armed with smartphones and tablets now use the internet to look up a shop’s address, to find a tradesman, book a mini-cab or order a takeaway. Small businesses in London need their own websites just to keep their existing customers, and to have any prospect of winning new ones.”
buydomains.london, an official partner of Dot London, has launched the campaign to run throughout July 2014, aiming to “Get London businesses online”. All London-based SMEs that sign up for a .London domain name via buydomains.london will receive a free professional one-page .London website. The benefits of this free website will allow the registered businesses to publish free content online with no prior technical or internet content experience. Ben Crawford hopes that this campaign will encourage more London SMEs to get online, and improve their marketing potential by kick-starting their online presences. This campaign is being launched by London-based CentralNic plc through a strategic partnership with British web design company BaseKit.
About buydomains.london
Alex Kinchin-Smith, Director of Dot London said, “We are delighted to be working with CentralNic as one of the premier partners in Dot London and to make .London domains available through CentralNic’s dedicated Dot London site buydomains.london. We want Dot London to become the internet address of choice for businesses and individuals with a connection to the capital. It is therefore important for us to be working with CentralNic as the Company is based here in London and understands the benefits a Dot London domain name can bring.”
About CentralNic Group plc
CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) is one of the world’s pioneering registry service providers, offering technical backend, distribution, policy and marketing for new TLDs, ccTLDs and SLDs. CentralNic currently supports 31 domain extensions including .pw, .la, .com.de, .us.com and .uk.com — more extensions than any other registry. CentralNic was selected as the back-end registry provider for 60 new Top-Level Domains, and will be launching TLDs including .wiki, .college, .bar, .rest, .ink and .xyz, as well as DotBrand domains for Global 1000 banks and telcos, and for media and entertainment leaders William Morris Endeavor and Guardian Media.
CentralNic’s distribution network includes 1500 registrars – entities such as GoDaddy and Network Solutions in over 80 countries that retail domain names directly to the public and wholesale them through an additional network of over 100,000 resellers.
All Group information and news can be found at www.centralnic.com“
EURID : Cast your Nominations for the .EU Web Adwards
Eurid, the company behind .EU extension, invites you to cast your nominations for the .EU Web Adwards. The .EU Awards features five particular categories.
You can read the press release after the jump:
” The .eu Awards is an online competition launched with the objective to distinguish and award .eu websites that are leaders in five particular categories.
The categories are:
The LEADERS (Established business with more than 10 employees)
The RISING STARS (Start-up/Entrepreneur with 1 to 10 employees)
The LAURELS (Education/Institutional/Pan European ongoing project project)
The HOUSE of .eu (News/Media/Entertainment/Blog – company or private)
The BETTER WORLD (Environmental/green projects)
The five winning websites will receive an online media package worth EUR 5 000 in their resident country. The package should be used to promote the winning .eu website, and will be designed, developed and approved in close cooperation with EURid staff.
Do you know a .eu website that deserves to be nominated? Then please submit your nomination and give them a chance to win!”
CNNIC Prepares To Launch .Gongsi ( .COM in Chinese) and .Wangluo (.NET in Chinese)
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced that is about to launch .Gongsi (.COM in Chinese) .Wangluo (.NET in Chinese) with IP Mirror.
You can read the press release after the jump :
“China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) prepares to launch “.Gongsi” (“.COM” in Chinese) and “.Wangluo” (“.NET” in Chinese), new Chinese-language top-level domains with IP Mirror. As Chinese equivalents of “.COM” and “.NET”, businesses interested in China will find them valuable. Before the domains are open for public registration, trademark holders are encouraged to register during the Sunrise or Pioneer Periods to ensure protection for their trademark rights.
“Gongsi” and “Wangluo” are Chinese phonetic spellings to mean “Company” and “Network”. Refer to the image for the actual Chinese characters of these domains.
As China has the largest Internet user community, Chinese top-level domains are believed to embody increasing market value. Having a domain name consisting of “.Gongsi” or “.Wangluo” makes businesses more credible and accessible in the Chinese market. Sohu, a premier Chinese web portal has fully utilized “.Gongsi” and “.Wangluo” as part of its 2014 World Cup marketing initiative. Mr. Zhang Chao Yang, Sohu’s CEO explains: “Unlike previous ones, this World Cup belongs to mobile devices and video-sharing websites.” Sohu’s Chinese-domain websites — “Sohu Shijiebei.Wangluo” (http://xn--rhqt05c8kc46p54c.xn--io0a7i) (“Sohu World Cup”) and “Baxi Shijiebei.Wangluo” (http://xn--rhqr00bc8gunoxzx.xn--io0a7i) (“Brazil World Cup”), have enabled Chinese Internet-users to quickly locate Sohu’s World Cup coverage on the go; they make a unique statement about the company itself and its willingness to connect with its customers. A domain name with “.Gongsi” or “.Wangluo” gives anyone interested in the Chinese market a competitive edge.
To protect the rights of trademark holders, early registration periods of “.Gongsi“, “.Wangluo” are divided into three consecutive stages. During the Sunrise Period (starting July 1, 2014), registration is only open to Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) registrants. In the subsequent Pioneer Period (from July 31, 2014), non-TMCH trademark holders registered at governmental agencies are eligible. These first-come-first-served priority registrations aid trademark owners in brand protection. In the following Landrush Period (from August 21, 2014), customers are encouraged to bid for their preferred domain names should they be contested. “
CNNIC Prepares To Launch .Gongsi ( .COM in Chinese) and .Wangluo (.NET in Chinese)
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced that is about to launch .Gongsi (.COM in Chinese) .Wangluo (.NET in Chinese) with IP Mirror.
You can read the press release after the jump :
“China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) prepares to launch “.Gongsi” (“.COM” in Chinese) and “.Wangluo” (“.NET” in Chinese), new Chinese-language top-level domains with IP Mirror. As Chinese equivalents of “.COM” and “.NET”, businesses interested in China will find them valuable. Before the domains are open for public registration, trademark holders are encouraged to register during the Sunrise or Pioneer Periods to ensure protection for their trademark rights.
“Gongsi” and “Wangluo” are Chinese phonetic spellings to mean “Company” and “Network”. Refer to the image for the actual Chinese characters of these domains.
As China has the largest Internet user community, Chinese top-level domains are believed to embody increasing market value. Having a domain name consisting of “.Gongsi” or “.Wangluo” makes businesses more credible and accessible in the Chinese market. Sohu, a premier Chinese web portal has fully utilized “.Gongsi” and “.Wangluo” as part of its 2014 World Cup marketing initiative. Mr. Zhang Chao Yang, Sohu’s CEO explains: “Unlike previous ones, this World Cup belongs to mobile devices and video-sharing websites.” Sohu’s Chinese-domain websites — “Sohu Shijiebei.Wangluo” (http://xn--rhqt05c8kc46p54c.xn--io0a7i) (“Sohu World Cup”) and “Baxi Shijiebei.Wangluo” (http://xn--rhqr00bc8gunoxzx.xn--io0a7i) (“Brazil World Cup”), have enabled Chinese Internet-users to quickly locate Sohu’s World Cup coverage on the go; they make a unique statement about the company itself and its willingness to connect with its customers. A domain name with “.Gongsi” or “.Wangluo” gives anyone interested in the Chinese market a competitive edge.
To protect the rights of trademark holders, early registration periods of “.Gongsi“, “.Wangluo” are divided into three consecutive stages. During the Sunrise Period (starting July 1, 2014), registration is only open to Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) registrants. In the subsequent Pioneer Period (from July 31, 2014), non-TMCH trademark holders registered at governmental agencies are eligible. These first-come-first-served priority registrations aid trademark owners in brand protection. In the following Landrush Period (from August 21, 2014), customers are encouraged to bid for their preferred domain names should they be contested. “
SIDN Closing In On Another Milestone : 5,5 Million .NL Domains
Sidn, the company behind .NL domain extension, is approaching 5,5 million domain name registrations under .NL. The company achieved the 5 million milestone in July, 2012.
.NL is one of the most popular extensions in the world.Individuals are allowed to register .NL domain names for 11 years ,since 2003.
The .NL ccTLD of the Netherlands is the third largest ccTLD in the world after .DE with 15 million registrations and .CO.UK with 10 million registrations.
21% of households in the Netherlands own at least one .NL domain name and 83% of firms in the contry own a website.
At the time of writing this article there are 5,482,052 registered .NL domain names.
Check out EuroDNS here to register your .NL domain name.
