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Catalog.com Announces Car Giveaway (January 10, 2003) - Web hosting company Catalog.com (Catalog.com) said this week that it is beginning the new year by giving away a 2003 Nissan 350Z in an online contest.

The "Register to Win" giveaway, says Catalog.com, will feature a 2003 Nissan 350Z Track model, valued at approximately $38,000. The winner of the giveaway can also choose to take a cash payment of $25,000 instead of the car.
No purchases are required to enter the giveaway, says the company, but purchases from Catalog.com give customers immediate entry into the contest. Those who wish to enter without purchasing can do so through the mail.
The winner of the 350Z "Register to Win" Giveaway, says Catalog.com, will be drawn on the first Monday after 30,000 entries have been received.

Catalog.com Deploys SWsoft Automation (December 18, 2002) - In a move that could further the acceptance of Virtual Private Server technology throughout the Web hosting industry, hosting automation solution provider SWsoft (SW-soft.com) announced on Wednesday that Web hosting pioneer Catalog.com (Catalog.com) has deployed SWsoft's HSPcomplete automation system.
According to Alex Plant, director of marketing at SWsoft, Catalog.com's recognized influence on the development of the Web hosting business offers a considerable degree of validation to virtual private server technology.
Catalog.com is widely regarded as the first shared hosting company, says Plant. In 1994, the company developed a process for running multiple Web sites from a single server, allowing for a dramatic reduction in the price of hosting.
According to Catalog.com, the company's decision to offer VPS services came, in part, from a desire to advance awareness of the technology, while being among the first group of service providers to adopt the services themselves.
"We wanted to get into [VPS] because we see it as an emerging market," says Christian Henning, director of marketing at Catalog.com. "There isn't really a lot of consumer awareness right now. People really don't understand what it is. But, essentially, you can get a dedicated server for a lot less than you would normally pay. And that's where we saw the value in it."
Adding further significance to the deal is the fact that Catalog.com is SWsoft's hundredth customer since the launch of the HSPcomplete platform. According to Plant, the company's software is gaining considerable traction in the hosting industry.
"The total number of virtual private servers that HSPComplete supports in the industry," he says, "is approaching 100,000."
Along with HSPcomplete's server virtualization functions, says Henning, Catalog.com also intends to employ some of the business process automation functions of the platform, which will allow the company to expand its business in a number of additional new directions.
"The HSPComplete platform does offer quite a bit of automation," he says, "and we are planning on implementing a reseller program in the future that would utilize that. We have plans to do domain registration. We're ICANN accredited, so we want to get our domain registration going through [HSPComplete]."

ICANN Accredits Twelve New Domain Name Registrars (January 25, 2000) -

(January 25, 2000) The Internet Corporationfor Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that twelveadditional applicant companies have met the criteria to be accreditedas domain name registrars in the .com, .net, and .org domains.

As accredited registrars, these companieswill compete in the market for domain name registration servicesby participating in the Shared Registry System (SRS), which allowsmultiple ICANN-accredited registrars to register domain namesending in .com, .net, and .org.

The companies named today join the 98 companiesthat were previously announced by ICANN, starting in April, 1999.Until the initial introduction of competitive registration servicesin June, registration services in the .com, .net, and .org domainswere provided solely by Network Solutions, Inc., under a 1992Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Government.

The 12 companies named today are:

1. 1stDomain.Net, a division of G+D InternationalLLC (United States)
<http://www.firstdomain.net>

2. ABC Telemedia AG (Germany)
<http://www.tmag.de>

3. Capitol Networks Pty Ltd. (Australia)
<http://www.TotalNIC.net>

4. Catalog.com Inc. (United States)
<http://www.catalog.com>

5. CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH(Germany)
<http://www.joker.com>

6. Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany)
<http://www.telekom.de>
<http://www.telekom.de/english/index.htm>

7. IBI Company Ltd. (Republic of Korea)
<http://www.topregistrar.com>

8. iHoldings.com Inc. d/b/a DotRegistrar.com(United States)
<http://www.iHoldings.com>

9. NameEngine Inc. (United States)
<http://www.nameengine.com>

10. NamesDirect.com (United States)
<http://www.NamesDirect.com>

11. NETPLEX LLC (United States)
<http://www.ntplx.net>

12. Shaver Communications Inc. (UnitedStates)
<http://www.web2010.com>

Further information about these companieswill be made available via the ICANN website's registrarpages.

 

ABOUT REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION

The Shared Registration System ("SRS")is a domain name registration system for competitive registrarsin the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains. The SRS was createdin the spring of 1999 through the initiative of the United StatesDepartment of Commerce under an amendment to its cooperative agreementwith Network Solutions, Inc. Under this domain name registrationsystem, competing ICANN-accredited registrars register domainnames utilizing one shared, central registry operated and maintainedby NSI. Although there is no limit on the number of registrarsthat may register names using the SRS, stability of the Internetand continuity for consumers is protected by the requirement thatevery business desiring to become a registrar in the .com, .net,and .org top-level domains must become accredited for this purposeby ICANN.

Under an October 6, 1998 amendment to theCooperative Agreement between Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) andthe U.S. Government, the process of opening the Internet domainname system's largest and most widely used domains to competitionwas launched with a testbed phase that began on April 26, 1999.Five companies were initially accredited to use the SRS in a testoperation designed to ensure that the introduction of competitionoccurs in a smooth, coordinated manner. By qualifying to be accreditedas registrars in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains, thetwelve registrars named today join the five original testbed registrars,as well as the 93 other companies that have already qualifiedfor ICANN accreditation.

On November 4, 1999, the ICANN Board approveda new five-year RegistrarAccreditation Agreement, which is now in effect for all accreditedregistrars. For further details, see ICANN'sregistrar accreditation pages.

The 98 applicant companies previously announcedas meeting ICANN's accreditation criteria are: 7WAYS (France);9 Net Avenue, Inc. (United States); A+Net (United States); A TechnologyCompany (Canada); Active ISP (Norway); Advanced Systems Consulting,Inc. (United States); Affinity Hosting, LLC (United States); Alabanza,Inc. (United States); All West Communications (United States);Alldomains.com (United States); America Online, Inc. (United States);American Domain Name Registry (United States); Animus Communications,Inc. (United States); AT&T (United States); CADVision d/b/aGetDomain.com (Canada); CASDNS, Inc. (United States); ColumbiaAnalytical Services, Inc. (United States); CommuniTech.Net, Inc.(United States); Computer Data Networks (Kuwait); Concentric NetworkCorp. (United States); Council of Internet Registrars (CORE) (Global);Cydian Technologies (USA); DADA Sarl (Italy); Domain Bank, Inc.(United States); Domain Direct (Canada); Domain Registration Services(United States); DomainRegistry.com (United States); DomainZoo,Inc. (USA); Eastern Communications Co., Ltd. (China); EasyspaceLtd. (United Kingdom); EnetRegistry.com Corporation (United States);eNom, Inc. (United States); EPAG Enter-Price Multimedia AG (Germany);ExtremeNames.com (United States); France Telecom / Oléane(France); FreeYellow.Com (United States); GANDI (France); Go DaddySoftware (USA); HANGANG Systems Inc. (Korea); iDirections, Inc.(United States); Info Avenue Internet Services (United States);InfoNetworks (USA & United Kingdom); infoUSA.com, Inc. (UnitedStates); InterAccess Company (United States); Interactive TelecomNetwork, Inc. (United States); Interdomain, S.A. (Spain); InternetDomain Registrars (Canada); Internet Domain Registry (Israel);Internet Fr SA (France); InterNeXt (France); interQ Incorporated(Japan); iTool.com (United States); Marvin Enterprises/GlobalKnowledge Group (United States); Melbourne IT (Australia); MSIntergate, Inc. (United States); The Name It Corporation (UnitedStates); NameSecure.com (United States); Name.Space (United States);NetBenefit (United Kingdom); NetNames (United Kingdom); NetNation(Canada); Network Solutions (United States); Nominalia (Spain);Nobel Networks (United States); NORDNET (France); OnlineNIC, Inc.(China); pair Networks, Inc, d/b/a pairNIC (USA, United Kingdom,and Germany); Parava Networks, Inc. (USA); Port Information System(Sweden); ProBoard Technologies (United States); PSINet, Inc.(United States); PSI-Japan (Japan); PSI-USA (United States); RCNCorporation (United States); REACTO.com Ltd. (United Kingdom);register.com (United States); Research Institute for ComputerScience, Inc. (Japan); Schlund + Partner AG (Germany); SecuraCompany (Germany); Signature Domains, Inc. (United States); SiteName(Israel); Speednames, Inc. (United States, Denmark, Singapore,Sweden); Stargate Communications, Inc. (United States); Talk.Com,Inc. (USA); Techdogs (United States); TelePartner AS (Denmark);The Direct Connection Ltd. (United Kingdom); TierraNet Inc. (UnitedStates); Total Web Solutions (United Kingdom); US Domain Registry(United States); Verio (United States); Virtual Internet (UnitedKingdom); Virtualis Systems, Inc. (United States); Web Express,Inc. (United States); WebTrends Corporation (United States); World-Net(France); Xin Net Corporation (China); YesNIC (Republic of Korea).

For more information and links to thesecompanies, see <http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation-qualified-list.html>