--TLD Registry September Newsletter-- 域通联达9月新闻通讯 During the few months preceding the ICANN 51 Los Angeles Meeting in October, TLD Registry has been busy traveling and launching new and exciting programs. Check up on what we’ve been up to this past month and what we’ve accomplished! 在十月份举办的ICANN 51届洛杉矶会议之前的几个月里，域通联达一直在世界各地奔波，忙于推出新的和令人兴奋的项目。看看我们在上个月所做的事情和取得的成绩吧！ A Look Back At August 八月回顾 Registrar Network Continues to Expand -- New Visits in Beijing, Xiamen and Foshan 注册商网络持续扩大-- 域通联达八月中国行：北京，厦门，佛山 TLD Registry and .CLUB teamed up last month and ventured out together to Beijing, Xiamen, Foshan, Zhuhai, and Hong Kong. This trip to China was the perfect opportunity to connect with Chinese consumers, domainers, investors, partners, potential new registrars, and domain enthusiasts. TLD Registry met with 12 different registrars and aftermarket service providers. Domain business meetings aside, TLD Registry was also able to launch their brand new Chinese Domain Ambassador Program and host multiple Mid-Autumn Festival parties alongside .CLUB. After the conclusion of the China mission trip, the team stopped by Hyderabad for World Domain Day and Bombay in India before heading back home. 八月，域通联达携手.CLUB共同前往北京、 厦门、 佛山、 珠海、和 香港。此次中国行是与中国的消费者、米农、投资者、合作伙伴、潜在注册商和域名爱好者进行沟通的绝佳机遇。域通联达在中国行中一共与12个注册商和售后服务提供商进行了会面。除了参加域名企业会议之外，域通联达还趁机推出其全新的中文域名大使项目并联手.CLUB主办了数场中秋节派对。结束中国行之后，我们的团队还前往印度的海得拉巴参加了世界域名节，并在印度的孟买短暂停留后返回家乡。 Chinese Domain Ambassador Program Launched on Aug.18 2014 Beijing 中文域名大使项目8月18日在北京正式启动 On August 18, 2014 in Beijing, TLD Registry launched their grassroots Chinese Domain Ambassador Program for young domain entrepreneurs. In response to the positive feedback after Chinese IDNs went live from a group of young Chinese Mainland domainers, we reached out to these enthusiasts and have built friendships over a couple months. Because of this reaction, we decided to establish the Chinese Domain Ambassador Program to support these young entrepreneurs to improve their professionalism and expand their understanding of global opportunities, techaniques, and business models. At the launch of the program, the young creative entrepreneurs are assigned as Ambassadors and gain access to our reserved premium domains, direct contact with our experts, an outlet to exchange ideas and business plans, invitations to events hosted in China, as well as a certificate of participation and a flashy t-shirt! Through this program, we are able to localize ourselves in China with a grassroots approach. This innovative support program validates the commitment TLD Registry has to Chinese netizens and domainers. 2014年8月18日，T域通联达在北京启动了面向青年域名创业者的草根项目中文域名大使项目。作为对中文国际化域名上线后所获得的积极反馈的回应，我们与中国大陆的这些青年米农取得联系，经过几个月的交流和沟通，我们彼此之间建立起了深厚的友谊。因此，我们决定成立中文域名大使项目来支持这些青年创业者，帮助他们提升专业知识并加深他们对全球机遇、技术和商业模式的理解。推出该项目后，我们选拔出对域名投资及学习域名知识有浓厚兴趣的青年作为域名大使，他们将有机会获得我们保留的优质域名，直接与我们的专家进行沟通，进行思想和业务规划交流，参与在中国举办的活动，并且取得参与证书和一款炫酷的T恤！ 通过这个新颖的支持项目，我们能够与中国的基层人员进行交流，兑现域通联达对中文网民和米农的承诺。 Mid-Autumn Festival Party Beijing Aug.19, Xiamen Aug.21 中秋晚宴：8月19日 北京， 8月21日 厦门 On August 19, TLD Registry and .CLUB Domains kick-started a 3-day series of Mid-Autumn Festival Parties in Beijing and Xiamen. The Beijing Mid-Autumn Festival Party was hosted at the Park Hyatt Hotel where more than 160 people from different registrars and media joined the festivities. As a final prize for lucky draw, two premium domain names: 嫦娥.在线 and woaibeijing.club (one from TLD Registry and one from .CLUB respectively) were given out at each of the parties, as well as smaller prizes such as Pure Finland chocolate and 50 Cent headphones. This year the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as the “Moon Cake Festival" or "Moon Festival” falls on September 8th. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month according to the Chinese calendar on...
Congratulations on the Birth of India’s own IDN TLD, .भारत (“.Bharat”)
On August 27, 2014, India’s .IN Registry launched its first native-language ccTLD, .भारत (.Bharat) in the national capital, New Delhi. The ccTLD is the word for “India” written in the Devanagari script, and is the matching Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ccTLD for .IN. TLD Registry is ecstatic that this new IDN TLD is now part of the IDN community. .IN registry NIXI CEO Dr. Govind kindly invited TLD Registry to the launch party where the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, and Minister for Law and Justice, Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad presented to the world the new Hindi IDN. Our own CMO Simon Cousins and CEO Arto Iskoski were fortunate enough to become acquainted with Dr. Govind, CEO of the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), during the events at World Domain Day 2014 in Hyderabad, India a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, due to previous travel engagements in China and India, TLD Registry was not able to participate in the function. We are sorry we missed such a wonderful opportunity to witness this milestone. NIXI, like TLD Registry, has been advocating a multilingual Internet community of universal access. In coordination with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), NIXI will be launching more IDNs in other regional languages. This is truly a tremendous step towards achieving universal accessibility in numerous respects. The release of this domain name in Devanagari script means that it will support the languages of Bodo (Boro), Dogri, Hindi, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, and Sindhi-Devanagari. Hindi alone, is the national language of India, with the second largest population in the world (following China), making it the fourth most spoken language in the world. This is a pretty big deal - nearly 20% of the world just gained the satisfaction of being included into the world of the Internet. Devanagari using communities are now empowered to use their native written language on the Internet, enabling them to foster a deeper understanding about other Indian people and their culture. .भारत has not only transformed the lives of the Devanagari speaking people, but has also unified the digital world with India. Before the introduction of IDNs, non-English speakers felt a lack of relevance in the digital world. But now, the feeling has transferred more closely to a lack of a digital divide. TLD Registry is celebrating that current feeling with India and its people. Congratulations .भारत and welcome! Amanda Ng, TLD...