Video content is the future: “If it moves, put it on .tv.” The .tv registry provider is VeriSign. They just relaunched the ccTLD with great tools to help you and your customers. The numbers speak volumes: every minute 20 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. In the US, 80% of Internet users watch online video at least once a month. We are a culture embracing online media.

.tv is the preferred destination for video, ?lm, animation, user-generated content and playable media of all kinds. It’s also a great choice for product demonstrations, how-to videos, keynote addresses, plus training and educational content. Whether you are in the business of creating videos or just use videos in support of your business, a .tv domain name is the natural place for your video content to live. Some of the most prominent .tv sites on the web include: Leo Leporte’s twit.tv, justin.tv, ustream.tv and blip.tv.

When you sign up for the .tv promo (until December 31, 2009), we’ll give you a complete package of .tv marketing materials (.tv logo, icons, animated banner ads and email templates).

Quick Facts:

• VeriSign is the Registry provider
• It is a TLD that is a statement about who you are. You can tell people to expect video on your web site by choosing a .tv.
• .tv is a ccTLD
• There are no residency restrictions.
• .tv was started by dotTV in 2000.

Available resources:

• VeriSign’s Watch.tv site
• Watch.TV Blog
• Watch.TV FAQs
• For more ccTLD context, Check out the VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief (specifically p. 2 -3 for ccTLDs)
• Follow WatchTV on Twitter
• Facebook with WatchTV
• Watch TV’s YouTube channel
• Watch TV research with Delicious bookmarks

With a renewal rate of 74% and an annual growth rate of 20%, .CA serves value for your Canadian domains customers. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) operates the .CA domain.

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Started in 1988, Growing Strong

The first .CA domain name was upei.ca, registered in 1988 by the University of Prince Edward Island. Back then, .CA was run by a group of volunteers at the University of British Columbia. In 2000, control of .CA was transferred to CIRA, a non-profit corporation that manages the .CA domain space on behalf of all Canadians.

.CA Today

With over 1.2 million .CA domains in existence today, .CA easily ranks in the top 20 of ccTLDs worldwide. According to CIRA, more than 400,000 times every minute someone initiates an action online that involves a .ca domain name. CIRA has a new campaign to help Resellers leverage this activity. It’s called “Get my Own .CA” and features great Canadian small businesses and organizations such as Midnight Poutine and Blade Tape (hockey stick tape). CIRA has targeted the small business market with ads appearing in Marketing Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CBC.ca and Yahoo Canada.

Why .CA? CIRA’s Annual Report has more statistics to help your customers when they consider .CA:

• 70% wanted to show their site was Canadian
• 60% of Canadians prefer .CA for online shopping
• 35% use their .CA for personal use
• 64% use their .CA companies/organizations

Adam Eisner, Director, Domain Services for OpenSRS on .CA and the Canadian Market:

Quick Facts:

• The .CA registry is CIRA, a not-for-profit corporation
• .CA domain names are reserved for Canadian people and organizations that meet CIRA Canadian Presence Requirements
• Started by UBC researchers in 1987 and became available for the general public in December 2000
• .CA, a ccTLD, has over 1. 2 million domains registered
• Registering a .CA means you can apply to become a voting member of the organization

Available Resources:

• Visit CIRA’s news portal
• Get some .CA facts
• See CIRA Announcements
• View CIRA Policies
• Get answers to FAQs
• Understand CIRA Canadian Presence Requirements
• View CIRA’s Annual Report
• Read “Public Domain” – the CIRA blog
• Follow CIRA on Twitter
• View videos on CIRA’s YouTube channel
• Slideshare

Avec des renouvelements de 74% et une croissance annuelle de 20%, point-ca offre vos clients une aubaine. L’Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements internet (ACEI) est le registre des noms de domaine .CA. En opération depuis une vingtaine d’années, le ccTLD .CA gère au-delà de 1,2 millions de noms de domaine:

Au moins 400,000 opérations chaque minute passent au cours de domaines point-ca. L’ACEI a récemment lancé « Get My Own .CA » , un projet démontrant des entreprises et organisations canadiennes, entre autres Midnight Poutine et Blade Tape. l’ACEI cible les petites entreprises avec ses annonces dans Marketing Magazine, Globeandmail.com, cbc.ca et Yahoo.ca.

Pourquoi point-ca? Le rapport annuel de l’ACEI pour 2009 offre quelques renseignements pour vos clients:

70% désire montrer aux visiteurs qu’il s’agit d’un site Web canadien

60% de canadiens préfèrent les domaines point-ca pour la commerce électronique

35% utilise point-ca pour tâches personelles

64% utilise point-ca pour compagnies ou organisations

Adam Eisner, Directeur de Domaines, au sujet de point-ca et le marché canadien:

Données:

• Le registre point-ca est l’ACEI, un société du secteur privé à but non lucratif
• Créé in 1987 par des bénévoles de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique et ouvert au publique en Décembre 2000
• Point-ca, un ccTLD, gè au-delá de 1,2 million domaines
• Comme titulaire, vous pouvez devenir membre de l’ACEI et aider à façonner l’avenir du Canada sur l’Internet
• En Octobre 2009, l’ACEI a lancé un banc d’essai pour le DNSSEC, technologie importante pour avertier l’usurpation de sites web

Resources Disponibles:

• FAQs
• Nouvelles
• Votre passeport au domaines point-ca
• Gérez vos informations ACEI
• Annonces Publique
• Mise à jour des politiques
• Connexion des titulaires de noms de domaine
• Exigences en matière de présence au Canada
• Rapport Annuel 2008-2009
• blog ACEI (anglais)
• Twitter (anglais)
• Youtube
• Slideshare

Special thanks to Ben Zanin, Senior NOC Analyst, OpenSRS for providing his translation assistance.

.ME puts the “you” in Internet domains. One of the biggest growth areas with Internet products and services is the personalized web. How can you and your customers capitalize on that movement with a domain name?

.ME can be used as both a personalized Web or email address and as a catchy business marketing tool around the world, initially in English followed by localized and standards compliant International Domain Names in, for example, Spanish, Italian, and Montenegrin.

.ME Registry offers a fun video to highlight possible brand positioning:

.ME has registrants from over 190 countries all over the world with 71% from the US, and the rest from Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Montenegro, Australia, China, Holland, Italy, Japan etc. .ME has steadily increased in market share since its inception:

Quick Facts:

The .ME domain is a ccTLD (country code top level domain) for Montenegro.

Registry provider is .ME Registry http://www.domain.me

Started May 2008 with general availability as of July 2008

Over 300,000 .ME domains registered

.ME does not have residency requirements.

Possible third-level zones for .ME: net.me, org.me, co.me, its.me, and priv.me

Available Resources:

• Why .me?
• News
• Explore .ME
• Examples of .ME sites
• Twitter
• Youtube
• Facebook
• Myspace
• Flickr

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.ES is our registry focus this week. OpenSRS is meeting with ESNIC, the .es registry, when they visit Madrid on September 17, 2009 for the Parallels EMEA Roadshow.

With over 400 million Spanish speaking people worldwide, “.es” domains have the ability to cross borders as the Spanish domain. “.es” actually translates to “is”. Resellers can use the noun/verb combination to create domain names that play on language. During the last two years, .es have experienced high growth (reaching a million domains in 2008). This may be related to the reduced registration fee and the changes to registration rules.

Red.es, the registry sponsor, is heavily involved in a number of organizations with the goal of promoting the Internet in Spain and with the wider Spanish-speaking population. This includes activism as part of the greater Internet community. They currently have a contest promoting using .es within social networking sites.

.ES Registrations:

Quick Facts

• ESNIC (commercially referred to as dominios.es) is the registry, with Red.es as the sponsor
• Registration is open, however, there are restrictions on some of the specific sub-domains
• Established in 1988
• Over 1 million names registered and growing
• The website is offered in Spanish, English and Spain’s “co-official” languages: Catalán, Gallego, Euskera
• Can be registered and renewed for periods up to 5 years

Available Resources:

• . es Website
• Statistics
• News feed
• Anti-phishing campaign
• Facebook
• Youtube

.ES es nuestro registro de enfoque de esta semana. OpenSRS se reu?ne con ESNIC, el Registro .es, cuando visite Madrid el 17 de septiembre de 2009 para el Parallels EMEA Roadshow.

Con ma?s de 400 millones de personas de habla hispana en todo el mundo, los dominios “.es” tienen la capacidad de cruzar fronteras como el dominio espan?ol. “.es” Realmente se traduce como “es”. Los distribuidores pueden utilizar el sustantivo/verbo para crear nombres de dominio que creativamente jueguen con la lengua. Durante los u?ltimos dos an?os .es han experimentado un alto crecimiento (llegando a un millo?n de dominios en 2008). Esto puede estar relacionado con la reduccio?n de tarifa y los cambios a las normas de registro.

Red.es, el patrocinador del Registro, esta? muy implicado en una serie de organizaciones con el objetivo de promover la Internet en Espan?a y con el resto de la poblacio?n de habla hispana. Esto incluye el activismo como parte de la gran comunidad de Internet. Actualmente tienen un concurso de promocio?n cuyo objetivo es la dinamizacio?n de los dominios .es en las redes sociales.

.ES Inscripciones Estadi?sticas:

Datos ba?sicos

• ESNIC (comercialmente conocido como dominios.es) es el registro, con Red.es como patrocinador.
• La inscripcio?n esta? abierta, sin embargo, hay restricciones en algunos nombres especi?ficos.
• Fundada en 1988.
• Ma?s de 1 millo?n de nombres registrados y creciendo.
• El sitio web se ofrece en Espan?ol, Ingle?s y en leguas co-oficiales de
  Espan?a: Catalán, Gallego, Euskera
• Puede ser registrado y renovado por peri?odos de hasta de 5 an?os.

Recursos disponibles:

• Sitio web .es
• Estadi?sticas
• Contenidos de noticias (News Feed)
• Campan?a Anti-phishing
• Facebook
• Youtube

Special thanks to Carlos Barrientos for his collaboration on this post including working directly with the registry and for his translation assistance.

We’re focusing on .nl this week to coincide with our visit to the Netherlands for the Parallels EMEA Partner Roadshow. On April 25, 1986, the .nl top-level domain name became one of the first country codes (ccTLDs) to be delegated to a body outside of the US. SIDN, the .nl registry provider, was created in 1996 and made responsible for the functional stability and development of the .nl internet domain. SIDN is actively involved in the technical, political and policy developments surrounding the Internet.

The .nl domain is now the fourth largest ccTDLs in the world. As of July 2009, the .nl domain has about a 70 per cent share of the Dutch market. There are twenty-two .nl domains for every one hundred people in the Netherlands.

Quick Facts

• .nl was established in 1986
• There are 3.5 million .nl domain names
• .nl is the 4th largest ccTLD after .de, .cn. and .uk
• .nl market share in the Netherlands 70%
• Registrants must provide contact address in the Netherlands.
• SIDN is the registry provider for .nl
• EPP will be implemented by the end of 2009
• SIDN is a participant in Opendnssec.org

Available Resources:

• Corporate website
• Extensive FAQ
• News
• Statistics
• EPP blog
• Opendnssec.org