At 5:00 p.m. CEST, CentralNic launched its latest domain COM.DE with much success.  This offering further broadens CentralNic’s already wide and popular selection of domains.  HEXONET throughout the pre-registration phases has seen strong demand for COM.DE domains these past few months and believes that registrations will continue now that it is open to everyone.

HEXONET achieved a near PERFECT score today at the opening of COM.DE with an amazing 97% success rate in obtaining domains pre-registered by HEXONET clients.   This success rate is insane considering the number of unique pre-registrations.  Once again, resellers and clients are very happy with HEXONET and our advanced technology platform.  Find out why you too should place your pre-registrations for future domains with HEXONET.

The same technology for pre-registrations is used as the backbone of our Backordering technology as well.  Currently at HEXONET, 18 different TLDs can be backordered with ease.  Though we are proud of the selection of TLDs our clients can backorder, we are actually more proud of the success rate our platform is at obtaining valuable expiring domains for them!

Jens Wagner and our team of talented engineers have highly optimized and specialized HEXONET’s backordering and pre-registration technology over years of research and development.  And we believe that our technology is best in class at submitting and acquiring domains no matter if it is through the regular pre-registration Go Live , or at domain expiration.

Give HEXONET’s pre-registration and backordering services a try and see why our customers are happy with the service and the technology.

CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, is the official registry operator of the .CA country code Top-Level-Domain. Last week HEXONET had the opportunity to attend the annual CIRA Symposium and Annual General Meeting this year held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The General Meeting was very well attended.  Many updates and metrics on growth of .CA were announced, as well as, some of the new initiatives that the Registry has been working on.  Two highlights of the conference had to be the two keynote speakers, Jonathan Zittrain, considered the foremost authority on the future of the Internet and Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, the popular photosharing website.

Some of the Highlights of the Meeting Include:

• .CA is experiencing very healthy annual growth at a rate of 14%, together with a renewal rate of 79%
• There are now more than 1.6 million .CA domains registered
• CIRA is the fastest growing ccTLD registry in the world
• .CA and .COM comparative Canadian market share analysis – .CA has grown its market share to 29% while .COM has decreased down to 56%
• Last year, CIRA successfully completed a major milestone with the launch of an entirely new EPP registry system.  The industry standard EPP-based system, ensures reliability, as well as, greater security and added robustness.
• CIRA is evaluating the implementation of French character Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) – a special website for feedback from key stakeholders has already been setup.
• CIRA’s current Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR) to register a .CA domain will be reviewed at the next CIRA board meeting in December 2011.

The Value of Being a CIRA Member:

Membership in CIRA is free and is open to anyone who holds a .CA domain.  Currently there are over 15,000 members. And the most important privilege of CIRA membership is that it gives you the opportunity to influence the CIRA registry.  It is through membership that anyone can get involved in CIRA’s governance and direction by either lobbying to its Board or even vying for a position at a Board of Directors Elections (which is happening this week!).

Members also have opportunities to influence the direction and rules of the registry through member surveys, as well as, direct member consultation (like the IDN discussion).  The fascinating part of being an active CIRA member is that your efforts not only go into influencing CIRA, but also the worldwide Internet via CIRA’s involvement with other international Internet organizations. Moreover, active CIRA members have access to the Registry’s quarterly e-newsletter and are also invited to CIRA sponsored networking and business development opportunities.

CIRA membership is very unique in the domain industry as very few registries actually follow this methodology.  However, the Registry feels that it is only through membership that the Registry can operate in the best interests of its users.  CIRA best sums up membership as such, “If your domain is your storefront on the Internet’s digital village, CIRA is CA’s Town Council. Being a .CA member gives you a voice in influencing and electing the Council. No other organization represents Canadians on the Internet like CIRA. .CA membership gives you access to that community.”

HEXONET would like to thank the entire team at CIRA for their continued dedication to fostering the development of .CA and building up this key Canadian public resource.  Thank you for your leadership role in shaping Canada’s Internet.

If you are a .CA domain holder, we encourage you to evaluate the benefits of becoming an ACTIVE CIRA member today.

The popularity of backordering valuable domain names as they expire is driving more customers to use HEXONET’s backorder service. Eighteen (18) TLD extensions can be backordered now including .CO, .CA, .CH, .LI, and .NU.

Vancouver, Canada (PRWEB) August 01, 2011.  HEXONET (http://www.hexonet.net) announced today the addition of five more Top-Level-Domain (TLD) extensions for its popular backorder service. The launch of .CO, .CA, .CH, .LI, and .NU backordering expands HEXONET’s backorder service to eighteen (18) different TLDs, making it a leader in terms of TLD selection anywhere industry-wide. HEXONEThas plans to expand its backorderable TLDs even more in the months ahead.

HEXONET’s mandate to continually innovate and quickly deliver new services to the growing domain aftermarket is showcased in the release of these five new backorder TLDs. Backordering services for .CO domains for instance comes on the heels of HEXONET’s recent accreditation with the .CO registry just a month earlier. Even development of .CO backordering was expedited to give HEXONET customers the greatest opportunity to snap up prized expiring .CO domains that are likely to drop following .CO’s first anniversary. Many excellent .CO domains are expected to become available.

According to Robert Birkner, Chief Strategy Officer of HEXONET, “our strength has always been engineering and innovation, and in the first half of 2011, we have been in overdrive.” Robert Birkner continued to say, “Though we are always working on adding more TLDs to the backordering service, we have also been innovating new services like integrated private auctions. These private auctions make allocating domains with multiple bidders more equitable, transparent and seamless for everyone. The feedback from our customers and resellers has already been overwhelmingly positive. Customers love the abundance of TLDs to backorder from as well as the assurance of private auctions through our auction platform Premiumsale.com.”