Registrar and Registry - Domain Definitions - NiceNIC.NET

Posted by ANDREW ALLEMANN at DomainNameWire.COM on MAY 27, 2015
The definition of registry is becoming fuzzy.

Two of the most commonly misused words in mainstream articles about domain names are registrar and registry. Many publications use one when it should be the other.
A registrar is the company where you register a domain name, such as GoDaddy or NiceNIC.NET.
A registry is the company that manages the top level domain name.
So if you register a .com domain name at NiceNIC.NET, NiceNIC is the registrar and Verisign is the registry for the domain name.
Now, most DNW readers are aware of this. But I’ve started to run into a conundrum with the release of new top level domain names.
With new TLDs, there are often two companies referred to as registries.
For example, .Buzz is “owned” and marketed by dotStrategy. But the traditional technical registry tasks are handled by Neustar, the same company that is the registry for .biz and .us.
Are both considered registries?
In this case, I often call Neustar the “back end registry provider” or the “technical registry provider”, but these terms are cumbersome. Sometimes I refer to dotStrategy as the “TLD operator” and Neustar as the “registry”.
I don’t have a good answer to this yet, but I am open to suggestions.
Comments:
SoFreeDomains says
In the case of .Buzz, I think dotStrategy is the “registry” while Neustar is the “TLD operator”.
John T. O'Farrell says
Andrew, I like your idea of “TLD Operator” (meaning owner but not providing the registry services) and “Registry” as the actual provider of registry services.
However do we need to differentiate between a Registry that is providing outsourced services and a Registry that is the operator and provider of services?
Perhaps:
1) TLD Operator: Owner but no services
2) TLD Service Registry: A registry that provides outsourced services for the Operator
3) Registry: A traditional registry that is the operator and provider of registry services for a given domain.
An entity could be one, two or all three of the above names but would allow for the reader to know what capacity that entity was operating as for any particular domain.
Thoughts?
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Can Internet Plus really save China? - NiceNIC.NET

Premier Li Keqiang has stressed the need for more state investment in the internet sector. Photo: Reuters

Posted by George Chen, managing editor of SCMP.com International Edition, on Mar 08, 2015:
Beijing apparently believes it has finally found the right formula for economic transformation after discussing it for many years without any significant progress. Premier Li Keqiang's so-called Internet Plus strategy.
In Li's presentation of his working report at the annual session of the National People's Congress, he spent some time explaining his scheme, which focuses on internet-powered start-ups and how new technology can be applied to traditional sectors.
Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily described Li's strategy as being as important as the Industrial Revolution. I admire such ambition, but I also have reservations.
Outside the Great Hall of the People, it is easy to see the impact of internet-related business on the nation's economy.
Interest in China's homegrown internet industry leaders, including Pony Ma Huateng of Tencent, one of the mainland's leading portals, and Robin Li Yanhong of Baidu, known as the "Google of China", far exceeds interest in the bosses of China's Big Four state-owned banks.
Last week in Beijing, when Ma, an NPC delegate, tried to organise a small media briefing, about 200 reporters rushed to meet him, asking questions about everything from his own business to national economic development.
In comparison, Zhang Jianguo, chief of China Construction Bank, one of the Big Four, joked in front of Premier Li last week that big banks had become a "weak force" and less popular, suggesting a lack of government policy support.
Ma is clearly a big fan of Internet Plus. "The internet has opened new frontiers including internet finance, medical services and education that didn't exist before. It should also be extended to traditional industries like manufacturing, energy and agriculture," he said.
Economic transformation is a must as the country cannot simply rely on cheap domestic labour and foreign investments to maintain high growth. On the other hand, the internet may help China open new frontiers for business as Ma suggested, but Beijing apparently does not want to make all content on the internet available to its large population.
We all know the key thing about the internet is freedom. If Beijing misses the point and continues to censor access to information, Premier Li's new Internet Plus strategy will probably just get more Chinese to shop online rather than have any significant and long-term impact on the country's long-awaited economic transformation.
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Internet Plus: Chinese Premier Li's New Tech Tool - NiceNIC.NET

Posted at english.gov.cn on Mar 13, 2015:
"Internet Plus" - a fresh notion mentioned by Premier Li Keqiang on March 5 in the government work report - has become a hot topic among people working in China's Internet industry. This is especially true for the industry's big names for the opportunities it might bring.
"We will develop the 'Internet Plus' action plan to integrate the mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things with modern manufacturing, to encourage the healthy development of e-commerce, industrial networks, and Internet banking, and to guide Internet-based companies to increase their presence in the international market," Premier Li said in the report.

  

As the Premier has said, encouraging popular entrepreneurship is one measure the government has adopted to address the downward pressure faced by the Chinese economy amid the sluggish recovery of the global economy.
Statistics have shown that the Internet industry has greatly contributed to the 13.22 million new urban jobs China created over the last year.
The role it played in promoting the development of small- and micro-sized businesses is obvious. Early in 2013, Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, told the Premier that Alibaba, with more than 20,000 employees, has indirectly facilitated the employment of a 10 million population.
Yu Yang, CEO of industry consultancy Analysys International, told Southern Weekly that in the future,40 percent of China's GDP will be contributed by traditional enterprises that have realized theutilization of Internet platforms and technologies.
In fact, China's decision-makers in recent years have started to invite leaders of Internet companies to attend economic symposiums.
Besides Jack Ma, Xiaomi's co-founder and CEO Lei Jun, Tencent founder and Chairman Pony Ma, founder of e-commerce company JD.com Inc Liu Qiangdong and Sohu CEO Zhang Chaoyang have been invited by Li.
It was during an economic symposium last July that Lei Jun suggested lifting up the Internet to a national strategic level, a proposal also previously made by other bosses.
Unexpectedly, the "Internet Plus" appeared in this year's two sessions.
China held the first World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, an ancient town in Zhejiang province, in November. It was an effort to strive for a bigger say in the Internet world.
More than 1,000 cyberspace officials, specialists and business tycoons from more than 100 countries and regions gathered in Wuzhen to discuss Internet issues.
And China is not the only economy that attaches great importance to the Internet.
In a speech at Stanford University, US President Barack Obama calls cyberspace the new "Wild West", with everyone looking to the government to be the sheriff.
"China's 'Internet Plus' action plan is a little bit like the upgraded version of Washington's information superhighway strategy," Yu Yang told Southern Weekly.
But he suggested the regulators to take an open-minded attitude toward the development of the Internet.
Pony Ma believes that the "Internet Plus" should be based on good infrastructure construction, which includes the infrastructure of network and data.
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Escrow.com acquired for $7.5 million - NiceNIC.NET

Company known for securing domain name transactions is acquired by Australian company.

Freelancer.com, an online marketplace for freelance services, has acquired escrow service Escrow.com for $7.5 million.
Escrow.com is a popular service among domain name investors and has handled over $2.2 billion worth of transactions to date.
Margins for escrow services are slim, and today’s acquisition announcement puts it in perspective: Escrow.com handled $220 million transactions last year, generating $5 million in revenue and just $1.2 million EBITDA.
Escrow.com will remain a California based company and will operate as usual going forward.
Freelancer.com recently raised AUD$10 million, in part to fund the acquisition.
I’ve reached out to Escrow.com president Brandon Abbey to find out if he will be continuing with the company.

Some Comments:
jZ:
wow. very concerning. i am not sure how escrow.com will continue to work as they do being owned by an Australian company. i certainly hope they keep the operations stateside as if wires are coming out of Australia i am going to look for other options..it also seems extremely cheap. i don’t get why they would sell.
Ryan:
Like escrowhill in NZ
Funny agreed got bought out, now everything is owned upside down, I do not get this deal, I am sure escrow could have raised a higher offer stateside
Sam A:
It: in the press release “The Escrow.com group staff will be continuing with the California-based business.” The service is great and hopefully this means that the escrow.com UI gets an overhaul, it’s been pretty stagnant for 10-years!
Aron:
Escrow.com has always been one of the best peace of mind services for the domain industry. I hope the level of service stays the same. Congrats to both parties.
thelegendaryjp:
I agree, the best option out there past and present and hope it remains as such. As far as their UI goes, who cares, simple, works and easy to navigate. I would be ok with a fee raise, don’t say that often.
As far as the price, yikes I too feel they could have squeezed more out if public but maybe there are other factors.
Paolo:
It’s time for European professionals to wake up and take this great chance to create a valid alternative in Europe, for europeans, independent, subject to European law, with low payment fees (since as you know wire transfers have the same cost within Euro area, as it was a domestic wire transfer), with funds received in 1 day, etc. and with the peace of mind that for any problem you can always take legal actions paying “low” fees, etc.
Wake up Europeans… Create a copy of Escrow.com with all the features they have clearly available on their web site with few click (for instance the “buy it now button”), but for Europe, add maybe also translations in some most important languages to raise the level of trust perceived by prospect buyers…
This is something that has been lacking for 10 years in Europe….
Brandon:
In a nutshell – We are a licensed and government audited escrow company that has been supporting the domain community for 16 years.
Escrow.com will be operating exactly the same way we always have. Instead of being owned by an individual investor we will be owned by a public company with a market cap of around $500M. What this means to the domain community is continued product innovation at a much faster pace. I have been meeting with executives from Freelancer for the past two weeks and their resources are incredible compared to what we have. This is good for our employees, Freelancer and most importantly our customers. As always, thank you for your business and your trust.
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A Domain Name Auction in China - NiceNIC.NET

These are some of the Chinese domain name investors buying your domains.
The domain name market in China is hot and is driving major price appreciation, especially in short domain names.
What’s the Chinese domain name community like?
A lot like that in other parts of the world.
It has its own “big personalities” and players.
It also has its own gatherings and domain name auctions.
In April 2015, Domainer’s Circle organized a live domain name auction in Beijing that attracted 200-300 people.

Chinese domain name investor DENG Yusing chronicled the event, and you can see results and pictures here and here.
The top sale from the event was 32.cn for 1,470,000 CNY ($237,000 USD).

Photos from the auction look a lot like that of a live domain name auction in the United States, even down to the attractive models hired to liven up the show.

Sponsors included Verisign, CNNIC and the .Top registry.
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Almost 20,000 .XYZ Collision Domains To Be Released On Dec 2nd - NiceNIC.NET

On December 2, 2014 at 2pm (London Time), .XYZ will be releasing thousands of domain names to the public to register which were held back due to ICANN’s name collision list.

The new domain name extension .XYZ, is the new gTLD’s with the most domain name registrations with over 725,000 according to ntldstats.com.

Almost 20,000 names were held back due to ICANN’s name collision list, and a large majority are being released.

.XYZ just published a complete list of these domain names at gen.xyz/collisionlist.

These names will be up for grabs on a first come, first served basis, for normal registration fee at any registrar where you can register .XYZ domain names.

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Here are some highlights from the list:

There are over 1,000 short 3 and 4 character .XYZ domain names  that will be released:
3L: 75 names
3N: 100 names
3C: 95 names
4L: nearly 400 names
4N: 18 names
4C: nearly 550 names

Keyword rich domains like OnlineCasino.xyz will also become available, which I’m sure will get snatched up pretty quickly.

Some other examples of good .XYZ domain names that will become available for registration include:
220.xyz
1984.xyz
blacklist.xyz
brit.xyz
carexpert.xyz
eiffel.xyz
root.xyz
seolinks.xyz
venus.xyz
webdesigners.xyz

Hundreds of popular first names and last names will also be released including:
clare.xyz
cohen.xyz
norton.xyz
martha.xyz
juliet.xyz
berger.xyz
andrews.xyz
peterson.xyz
harrison.xyz
michelle.xyz
fernandez.xyz
garcia.xyz
ernesto.xyz

Good luck to all!

 

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90% OFF Timed to 2014 Thanksgiving Day - NiceNIC.NET

Dear Valued Customer,

As we count our blessings on this Thanksgiving Day,

we count ourselves extremely lucky to have customers like you:

Thank you for making this year a sustainable success;
Thank you for making our NiceNIC people have a steady job;
Thank you for your positive comments that encouraged us much;
Thank you for recommending NiceNIC.NET to your friends and partners;
Thank you for your confidence and believing that we will surely become the BEST!

We wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving and joyful holiday season.

Whether you are a multi million dollar business or something small and local,

everybody will win on 2014 Thanksgiving Day.

Starting from November 27 up till November 30, 2014,

the following domain names will be offered with fantastic discounts, even up to 90% OFF:

Domain Name	Promo Price
.XYZ	$1.49
.Asia	$1.69
.PW	$3.29
.CN	$5
.COM	$8.5
.HK	$11.5

Sincerely,
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