Experienced registry operator offers technical and other assistance for new top-level domain applications to ICANN

DUBLIN, IRELAND – 26 August 2009 – Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and domain name registry technology, today announced that it is seeking to partner with a select number of organizations that wish to apply to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for a new top-level domain (TLD).

Almost exactly nine years ago, the .INFO domain first started accepting registrations.  This was an historic event as it was the first time a new generic top-level domain (TLD) was launched to an existing domain marketplace and, in fact, was the first new TLD to be added since .com.  We’ve seen (and provided technology to power) many other TLD launches since then, with many business models.  As you seek to introduce your own new TLD however, you should carefully evaluate the different launch mode

Due to the many groups that did not attend this month's ICANN meeting in Nairobi for various reasons,  I don't think anyone expected the meeting to result in major decisions on new TLD issues we've been debating for over a year.  However, that is exactly what happened.

Afilias is a sponsor of ICANN no. 37

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An ISOC-DC Event

Join us for an informal, lively conversation on the new business models arising on the next-generation Net and whether these models will finally begin to generate the revenue so many Net investors have predicted for so long.

Leading the discussion:

Pinky Brand, Director of Global Domain Sales at dotMobi, spends a few minutes discussing the mobile Web and the .mobi domain with Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited. This was filmed at ICANN, held during October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.

Read David Spark's ad:tech NY blog post about Afilias's new TLD expertise!

Afilias recognizes the best .INFO Sites and offers over US$15,000 in rewards to the winners

DUBLIN, IRELAND – October 7, 2009 – Today, Afilias announced the opening of the 2009 .INFO Awards. The awards, first created in 2006, rewards the best professionally created .INFO Web sites from around the world. .INFO Site owners are able to submit their .INFO site for consideration until 11:59 p.m. on October 23, 2009.