We've been invited by ICANN to contract! TLD Registry is proud to announce to our many stakeholders and supporters that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- ICANN -- has at long last invited us to enter into the Registry Agreement contracting phase. This is the final big step towards the essential new Chinese TLDs to go live. ICANN has determined that our application for Dot Chinese Online (number 1-1940-42600)  has passed Initial Evaluation, is not currently in a contention set, does not have an unresolved objection filed against it, is for a string that is not referenced in the Governmental Advisory Committee's Beijing Communique, and is not currently subject to a change request*. So what happens next? Well, the next step will be that we will receive the Communications Information Request from ICANN, which we'll return to them, completed with pro-forma information, right away. After that, we will enter a short period of negotiation and shortly thereafter, we'll be on the final straightforward steps of our five year journey to make the Chinese web more accessible to Chinese netizens. Dot Chinese Online will available soon! Post written by Simon Cousins, TLD Registry communications director. * "Is not subject to a change request (a) for which ICANN has not yet approved or denied the requested changes and (b) for which the 30 day public comment period following posting of the amended application has not yet...

We're very proud to publicly release the latest version of our TLD Registry booklet.  This 12-page document replaces all earlier marketing and information collateral items, and covers all key aspects of our Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website gTLDs. We hope you agree with us that the new booklet is a great improvement over our previous materials.  Its due to our very high level of activity in the registrar channel in China and the world that most improvements have been made.  Registrars in China and around the world have helped us enormously to "fine tune" our positioning of Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website. We're releasing this new booklet on the opening day of ICANN 47, in Durban, South Africa, where the TLD Registry executive team is meeting all this week. If you're at ICANN 47 too, please call by our meeting room in the Hilton and say hey! Article by Simon Cousins, TLD Registry marketing and communications director. Please download the  TLD Registry booklet (download version English) or the TLD Registry booklet (download version Chinese...

Preliminary agreements to sell Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website domain names reached with ten leading registrars DURBAN, South Africa, July 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- European internet domain name registry TLD Registry Ltd and ten leading registrars have signed preliminary agreements to sell fully-Chinese domain names in the "Dot Chinese Online" and "Dot Chinese Website" global top level domains ("New gTLDs"). Sales and marketing activity will occur worldwide, with special focus on China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Of the ten preliminary agreements, seven have been signed in the last four weeks. TLD Registry CEO Arto Isokoski said, "The pace of newly signed preliminary agreements has exceeded our expectations. We're delighted to have welcomed so many new partners to the Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website team." TLD Registry Executive Chairman Taneli Tikka, said, "Our investors' and executives' confidence in Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website as the essential new Chinese TLDs has been validated by the excellent traction we've achieved in the sales channel." The two new Chinese TLDs will offer businesses and consumers more domain name choices and a unique opportunity to enhance their brands and businesses online. "The Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website TLDs are culturally relevant, linguistically correct and will dramatically improve the way the booming Chinese web operates," said Simon Cousins, TLD Registry Communications Director. He continued, "Our TLDs are of interest to businesses worldwide, whether they're serving Chinese people in China or Chinese communities around the world." "Tens of thousands of domain name resellers and millions of Chinese domain name customers are addressed with TLD Registry's marketing channel," said Isokoski. "The fully-Chinese domain names made possible by Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website will be popular with trademark owners seeking to protect and benefit brands, businesses looking to better serve their customers, and domain name investors." Pinky Brand, the domain industry veteran overseeing TLD Registry's channel sales said, "Our registrars universally view Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website as culturally relevant and linguistically correct TLDs. Channel enthusiasm is high." "All things going well with ICANN's final policy details, we expect our TLDs to go live in the October 2013 timeframe," said Isokoski....

We're pleased to announce the 2013-07 revision of our brand guidance booklet.  The TLD Registry Corporate Identity Guidelines (PDF 734Kb) can be downloaded from our Branding Kit page. The booket is of use to our many partners, including our registrars and their resellers, our business partners, and the printers and external marketing agencies we work with. It provides clear guidelines on the correct and consistent use of our various logos, typographical conventions, color palette and other key brand elements. We welcome feedback and comment on our branding work. Please feel free to contact us with any comments or requests! We anticipate another refresh of the CI Guidelines booklet in August 2013. Thanks for supporting our mission to bring a fully-Chinese web to China and the world! Article by Simon Cousins, TLD Registry's marketing and communications...