- OTTAWA, Canada (CNW) - People
around the globe are now pre- registering their name on the net in the
"landrush" phase of the world's newest Internet domain
registry.
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- Internic.ca's sister company, Namescout.com, was
accredited
in October as the world's first .name registrar. Both are now accepting
pre-registrations from individuals who wish to "put their name on
the net". The first batch of registrations is to be processed in a
matter of weeks, with the first pre- registered .name domains usable on
the Internet when they resolve around January 15.
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- "One of the best new things on the net in the New
Year is going to be dot-name" said Rob Hall, President of Internic.ca.
"Until now, people have had little choice but to compete with
businesses
and governments and other organizations for dot-com, dot-biz and other
Internet names. Over 40 million people and organizations around the world
have registered domain addresses of one sort or another, and that number
is growing rapidly as Internet use continues to explode. But dot-name is
different - it is the first domain and e-mail address designed exclusively
for individuals."
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- Moreover, with .name registrations, people gain an e-mail
address that they can forward to whatever work or home address they wish.
"Think of it - an e-mail address you can use for life, and which is
as easy for friends and family to remember as your name," said
Hall.
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- Pre-registrations for .name are now available online
at www.internic.ca.
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- Internic.ca and Namescout.com have been at the forefront
of Internet development since the earliest days. Namescout.com was recently
accredited as the world's first registrar for the brand-new dot-name
domain,
and has just been provisionally accredited by the Australian Domain
Authority
(auDA) as one of Australia's first wave of new dot-au registrars.
Internic.ca
was Canada's first dot-ca accredited registrar and is now Canada's leading
dot-ca registrar.
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- President and CEO Rob Hall was a leader in the two-year
process of creating Canada's new Canadian Internet Registration Authority
(CIRA), and served as CIRA's founding Chair. Internic.ca and Namescout.com
are owned by Momentous.ca of Ottawa, Canada, and serve customers around
the globe from offices in North America, Australia and the Caribbean.
Today,
they are the world's only registrar group simultaneously accredited by
ICANN, CIRA, auDA and the Global Name Registry.
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