HEXONET’s advanced pre-registration technology for new TLD releases, like Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) for the communications-focused .tel, impresses customers with it’s ease of use, performance, and success rate in acquiring domains.

Homburg, Germany – June 16, 2010 – HEXONET (www.hexonet.net) announced today that over ninety percent (90%) of pre-registered multilingual .tel domain names, placed with HEXONET, were successfully registered on behalf of its clients and resellers, when Telnic, the registry operator for the award-winning, communications-focused .tel, went live with IDN registrations on June 15th.  The first .tel IDN registered was “ärzte.tel”, German for  “doctors.tel”, which was registered through Germany based registrar 1API GmbH – the registrar of HEXONET GmbH.  With the growing importance, popularity, and value of IDN domain names, the acquisition of such a large percentage of pre-registered .tel IDNs has HEXONET customers elated.

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are registered and accessed using non-Latin characters.  For Telnic, these are domain names using the following languages – Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.  As the Internet continues to garner more global users, the demand of IDNs continues to grow unabated.

According to Justin Hayward, Business Development Director at Telnic, “the value of a .tel name, the Internet’s only concise and universally-accessible online calling card, is now greater and more universal with IDNs.  The ability for anyone to access your online contact information in their own language is highly beneficial.  We’d also like to congratulate 1API GmbH on registering the first .tel IDN.”

HEXONET’s high acquisition success for .tel IDNs is the result of countless engineering hours and years of operational optimizations.  Today, HEXONET customers have access to one of the industry’s most advanced pre-registration systems anywhere.  And with many more new TLD launches on the horizon, like .CO on July 20th, now is the time for individuals, businesses, and organizations to start pre-registering.

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BIZ is for Business:

Businesses today rely on the Internet for sales, marketing, communications, and a myriad other required services for optimal growth.  And though many use .COM as their primary domain, the need for other domain extensions have surfaced, especially .BIZ.

Good Credible Domain Names Still Available:

For many years now, finding a relevant .COM domain name for business has been extremely difficult.  With just over two (2) million registered .BIZ domain names, a .BIZ domain provides the perfect balance of both relevance and name availability.  This is because there are many good names remaining and the fact that the .BIZ TLD has long established itself as a credible TLD to own.  The Registry has been around since 2001 and is today the 10th largest registry worldwide.

Clarity of Purpose:

Being efficient and direct are keys to business success.  And with a .BIZ domain name people distinctly and expressly that usage and/or content associated with the respective .BIZ domain is specifically for business purposes.  Visitors and users to a .BIZ domain name are there with purpose and is a great way to filter serious inquiries verses just lookie-loos.

Quick Facts About .BIZ:

• gTLD 2 Million domains names on June 23, 2009, 10th most registered TLD
• The Business-focused g TLD with no geographic qualification
• .BIZ is no different than other tlds such as .com in regards to search results.  Optimization and promotion are key to .BIZ becoming more prevalent in search results.
• 33.5% of the .BIZ domains are used for the business and computers category
• Many registrants are business leaders of small companies with 59% being President, CEO, or Owner
• Sample .biz websites include:  www.mqm.biz, www.billboard.biz, www.badtothebone.biz, www.cmic.biz, and others!

HEXONET’s .BIZ Promotion:

Until July 31, 2010, HEXONET will be running a .BIZ special volume pricing promotion where .BIZ domains can be registered as low as 8.81 (net price: 7.40)USD per domain/year … PLEASE READ DETAILS HERE

If you are interest in transferring or registering .BIZ domains in bulk, feel free to contact HEXONET to negotiate better pricing at sales@hexonet.net.

Knowing the Market

With the increasing valuations of country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) recently, there has been lots of market hype.  This buzz is no surprise to HEXONET, as we have long touted the intrinsic value of ccTLDs and is the very reason why ccTLDs have been core to our business years earlier.  As a result, HEXONET today has one of the widest selections of ccTLDs anywhere including many real-time features and support not available elsewhere.

A perfect example of HEXONET’s focus on ccTLDs is in the field of domain backordering.  Though there are many established backordering service companies like SnapNames, Pool, and NameJet, typically ccTLDs are not available in their service sets.  ccTLD procurement requires specialized expertise and many years of operational knowledge to get it done correctly.  Because HEXONET has been on the forefront of ccTLDs for years, this is why we can today offer 14 different TLDs to backorder, many of which are ccTLDs.

The Potential of .US Domains

Having first hand knowledge and expertise on ccTLDs, one ccTLD that is of interest to HEXONET is .US.  A key metric that we consider in determining the potential upside of a ccTLD is the ratio of registrations to the overall population of the respective country.  For instance, for Germany this ratio is 16% (13.5M/83M).  The UK the ratio is 13.9% (8.5M/61M).  And for the Netherlands the ratio is 22.6% (3.8M/16.8M).  The interesting part for .US is that this ratio is extremely low at 1.5M registered .US domains with 310 inhabitants (0.5%).  Even after one considers the effect of .COM being the preferred TLD for most Americans, this ratio is still significantly low.

Over time and with recent efforts from the Registry to delivery new services like a Registry Lock Service or provide a .US URL Shortener Service, awareness will grow and the upside potential is huge.  The following facts about the .US ccTLD and the United States in general are very compelling:

• Many desirable Internet addresses are still available
• Businesses use .US domain names to promote themselves as American companies to inspire consumer confidence and to encourage consumers to “buy American.”
• .US enables domestic and international firms of every size and industry classification to protect their trademarks and establish their corporate identities online in the United States
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• Recently, .US has been positioned as US, a social community based domain with presence here in the United States and around the world
• Most of the .US domains (86%) are registered and used in USA as expected
• Business related domains provide a strong registration base – 25.9% of .US domains fall into the Business category

.US Domain Promotion

To make the purchase of .US domain names easier, HEXONET is throwing a great promotion for .US domains. Until July 31, 2010, HEXONET is offering a special price of 7.97 (net price: 6.70) USD per Domain/Year on .US domains for single and multi-year registrations, as well as, transfers and domain renewals.

Rules:

• End Date: July 31, 2010
• New one (1) year .US registrations eligible.
• Multi-year .US registrations eligible.
• Renewals and Transfers eligible.
• IDNs eligible.

If you are interest in transferring or registering .US domains in bulk, feel free to contact HEXONET to negotiate better pricing at sales@hexonet.net.