Free online resources outline opportunities for dot.BRAND TLDs in today’s new Internet environment [news release]  In a historic move, ICANN approved its long-discussed New gTLD Program. This program allows any brand or community of interest to apply for a unique “right of the dot” top-level domain. For example, instead of “.com,” a brand like Nike could apply for “.nike” to reinforce its brand on the Web. “The ICANN program creates opportunities for brand builders to re-invent how customers experience brands on the Internet,” said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias. “However, there are a variety of challenges in applying for, winning and running a dot.BRAND Web space. One significant issue is time. The program application period starts on January 12, 2012, and will end on April 12, 2012. Once the application window is closed, the opportunity to apply for a dot.BRAND TLD is gone. There are no firm plans to accept new applications after this round of submissions closes.” To help global brand builders understand the complex ICANN application process — as well as the many benefits of owning and operating a unique dot.BRAND TLD — Afilias has created an easy-to-digest video and e-book to explain the program. “Afilias is ideally positioned to offer this information,” LaPlante said. “Afilias is among the world’s largest providers of diverse domain registry services, and has supported the applications for and launches of numerous new TLDs under ICANN processes — including the highly successful .INFO, .MOBI and .ASIA domains. This also means we are uniquely qualified to help organizations apply for new dot.BRAND TLDs as well as launch and manage new dot.BRAND Internet spaces.” Organizations interested in pursuing a dot.BRAND investment will need to act quickly to assemble a team of experts, which will likely include the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), a brand advisor, the ad agency, a trademark lawyer and a domain registry technology partner. Properly assembled, this team will be able to prepare and submit an application that will meet ICANN’s stringent requirements and be awarded their own dot.BRAND. To access the free Afilias e-book, Envisioning Your .BRAND New World: A Field Guide for Brand Builders , as well as the educational video, Welcome to Your .Brand New World , visit www.afilias.info/dotbrand . About Afilias Afilias is a global provider of Internet infrastructure services that connect people to their data. Afilias’ reliable, secure, scalable, and globally available technology supports a wide range of applications, including Internet domain registry services and Managed DNS. For more information on Afilias, visit www.afilias.info . This Afilias news release was sourced from: www.afilias.info/news/2011/06/20/afilias-launches-campaign-educate-“brand-builders”-icann-new-tld-progra

SpamExperts and eApps Hosting announce Strategic Partnership Web Hosting – SpamExperts announced that eApps, provider of high performance, high up-time hosting and related services has joined its Hosting Partner Program. As a Hosting Partner of SpamExperts, eApps will be offering e-mail security products to its clients in order to provide them the highest level of security and protection.

Telnic Limited the registry operator for the .tel top level domain (TLD) today that Turkey Yellow Pages is the latest yellow pages organization to integrate the .tel service into its online advertising packages. Trevor Nadeau, Managing Director for Turkey Yellow Pages, said: “As the established provider of verified business listings in Turkey, we’re constantly looking at the development of the internet and new technologies to provide our customers with the greatest audience. With .tel, we can provide an integrated, location-ready and mobile optimized site that will really complement all of our investments in the mobile internet, apps and better discoverability for our clients.” Located in Kavacik, Istanbul and with more than 600,000 verified business listings and over 2.5 million unique visitors per month, the Yellow.com.tr platform of products has become Turkey’s trusted destination for business listing information.

EtherCloud simplifies the delivery of Ethernet and VPLS services over a global footprint (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- IP and Ethernet wholesale carrier Tinet ( www.tinet.net ) announced on Monday it has launched its global wholesale offering, EtherCloud ( www.ethercloud.tinet.net ), a new service that transforms and simplifies the delivery of Ethernet and VPLS services over a global footprint.   The Layer 2 platform connects diverse partner networks into a single Ethernet cloud that delivers end-to-end Ethernet and VPLS connectivity around the world.  Tinet says the platform is the result of integrating individual product and systems from Tinet and its parent company, Neutral Tandem.  EtherCloud offers customers flexible interconnectivity options so they can choose where and how they want to interconnect at any of Tinet’s 120 global points of presence. “We designed the service to deliver a compelling value proposition, to simplify and streamline customers’ off-net interconnections, to extend their network reach and to market their local Ethernet services to customers worldwide,” says Paolo Gambini, chief marketing officer of Tinet. “The offering is further strengthened by end-to-end SLAs to meet the demands of enterprise customers.”   Tinet says that EtherCloud is designed to meet a range of customers including local/regional carriers, ISPs, value added resellers and systems integrators.   Through a single E-NNI, EtherCloud members can buy Ethernet and VPLS connectivity, as well as sell their own services to other EtherCloud members globally.

[news release] After adding Google. AdSense and enabling image-]based adverts for .tel domains, Telnic, the Registry Operator for .tel, today announced that all .tel owners can now integrate Google Analytics to measure and evaluate the performance of their .tel names.

This diagram shows the process of HackAlert (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Digital certificate provider GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has shown the largest increase in the number of SSL Certificates active for the month of February, according to the Netcraft SSL survey. GlobalSign says it has added 2000 new secure sites a month, making its SSL technology “adopted at a faster rate than the other leading SSL providers” including Symantec, GoDaddy and Comodo.

A diagram on StillSecure’s website illustrates its managed email security solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Managed network security solutions provider StillSecure ( www.stillsecure.com ) announced on Monday at the Cloud Connect conference that it will provide its suite of security and certified compliance solutions for CoreSite’s ( www.coresite.com ) data center customers. This partnership comes a week after StillSecure announced its partnership with communications service provider XO Communications to provide security solutions. Customers at each of CoreSite’s 11 data centers across the US will have access to StillSecure’s solutions.