On Thursday November 13, in the closing minutes of the final day of Brandma's China New gTLD Roadshow, we were surprised and delighted to be awarded with the Best Marketing by a New gTLD trophy for 2014. In the presentation, in China's domain name capital of Xiamen, Brandma CEO and ICANN board member Ching Chiao praised the advances that TLD Registry has brought to the entire industry of fully-Chinese domain names. "No other registry has helped the awareness of the importance and value of Chinese domains as TLD Registry", said Chiao. The award was accepted by TLD Registry's Chief Marketing Officer Simon Cousins and China General Manager Jin Wang. Wang praised the work of other registries present on the promotional roadshow, including CNNIC (which administers .cn, .中国 (".China") .公司 (".company") and .网络 (".network"), Donuts (the largest single new gTLD registry), Rightside, Uniregistry, Huyi (owner of .商标 (.trademark"), and .世界 (".world"). "This award is the result of the incredibly hard work and creative strategic decisions of the entire TLD Registry team", said Cousins. "I'm enormously proud to be a part of the most dedicated Chinese domain name marketing team in the world". Brandma's China New gTLD Roadshow was staged in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xiamen during the first and second week of November 2014, and was the second annual event to be staged by the well-known Chinese Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) agency. TLD Registry is the world expert in Chinese domain names, and is the owner and operating registry for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website...
TLD Registry appoints first China General Manager
October 28, 2014 - TLD Registry Ltd, the world’s leading Internationalized Domain Name “New gTLD” registry, today announced the appointment of the company’s first ever China General Manager. Mr. Jin Wang has joined the TLD Registry team, contributing a wealth of knowledge and expertise of the internet and domain name industries in China. “Our eight month search for the perfect China GM has been resolved with the best possible outcome,” said Arto Isokoski, CEO of TLD Registry. “Jin Wang’s proficiency in both international business and technology is a perfect fit for further elevating our successful business in China.” Wang formally began his duties on Sunday 12th October, the first day of the 51st ICANN Meeting in Los Angeles, California. Wang displays a modest demeanor, but it’s overshadowed by a lofty resume, inclusive of an impressive education and meaningful experience serving in multiple executive positions in the international business, technology, and domain name sectors. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in International Business at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, graduating with first class honors, in the top 10 percentile. Wang’s time at BUCT was distinguished with many awards for academic performance and student leadership. During his undergraduate studies, Wang was selected as an exchange student to join an international business program at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. After graduation, Wang travelled to Europe and earned a postgraduate MSc management degree from the prestigious Imperial College, London. Prior to joining TLD Registry, Wang served as the Business Operations Officer for the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in Beijing, a consulting associate for IBM, and a consulting associate for the International Trademark Association (INTA). “We are completely confident that Jin’s extensive experience will translate into accomplishing the goals we have set for our world-leading Chinese top-level domains, Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website,” Isokoski said. Wang will be overseeing and managing all business operations for China, including registrar, media, government, and all other stakeholder relations. “The TLD Registry team has demonstrated a fundamentally excellent business plan and has the deep bench of talent to execute it,” Wang said, “I am thrilled to get...
TLD Registry opens China headquarters in "China's Silicon Valley"
On the afternoon of Friday 24th October, the world leader in Chinese domain names, TLD Registry opened its new China headquarters in Beijing's Zhongguancun, also known as "China's Silicon Valley". Home to an overwhelming majority of domestic and international tech and internet industry leaders, Zhongguancun is a thriving high tech district and the perfect base for our China region operations. Our opening ceremony was attended by VIPs including the Embassy of Finland's Minister Commercial, Mr Mikko Puustinen, the Service Delivery Center of the State Council Office for Public Sector Reform's Counsellor Mr Yu Yang, and the China Network Information Center's Deputy Director for Registrar Administration and International Business, Ms Chen Ting. Also honoring us with their presence were representatives from many of our China registrar partners, and China's media. Following speeches by Mr Yu, Ms Chen, Mr Puustinen, our CEO Arto Isokoski and our new China General Manager Mr Jin Wang, all guests enjoyed a Champagne toast and a banquet. Click on any of the photos below to open a full-screen slideshow! [AFG_gallery...
TLD Registry sponsored the NamesCon party at ICANN 51 Los Angeles
We were so happy to partner with the NamesCon organizers and .io Registry for a great party during ICANN 51 in Los Angeles. On the evening of Wednesday 15th October, at Beverly Hills' Rocksugar, we welcomed about 120 of the domain name investment elite for a wonderful night of networking and fun. Thanks go to our partners at NamesCon, Jothan Frakes, Richard Lau and Jodi Chamberlain. Thanks again for the opportunity to support what will be the largest domain name investment event in history! Find out more about NamesCon 2015 at namescon.vegas. Click any image below to open into full-screen gallery mode! [AFG_gallery...
Towards more efficient registry-registrar relations
REPRINTED FROM CIRCLE ID On the morning of Wednesday 15th October, the The Domain Name Association (the DNA) held an important working group meeting during ICANN 51 Los Angeles. The topic was to discuss several operational issues between registries and registrars. The meeting's unofficial ongoing name is the Registry-Registrar Operations Working Group. The meeting was a continuation of an inaugural meeting that was held back in June of this year, and covered in a Industry Association: An Implementation Model circulated by the DNA from September 17, by Executive Director Kurt Pritz. The rationale behind the inaugural meeting as well as Wednesday's meeting was to formulate discussion between the groups on how to improve the domain name registration process for registrants and businesses, as well as discussion of other operational issues between registries and registrars. These issues and discussion points were brought to light by several members of the group, such as GoDaddy, Donuts, ARI Registry Services, Neustar, Google, 1&1, TLD Registry, andRightside. The meeting was held and the discussion points were raised because of two main issues within the registry-registrar relationships and how it affects the registration process. Kurt Pritz's CircleID article stated that those issues are (1) Registry-registrar operational issues are being solved on a one-off basis as each new registry operator paired off with its set of registrars, and (2) resolving these issues in an industry-wide collaborative manner is preferable in order to create operational consistency and save time. Wednesday's meeting highlighted several points of emphasis, such as developing concepts for formal registry-registrar collaboration methods, how to implement those concepts and action points, and the actual issues that need to be worked through as a basis for the creation of the Registry-Registrar Operations Working Group. The concept for formal registry-registrar collaboration raised produced action items that the working group has undertaken to implement into the methodology. It was noted that there is arguably an urgent need for more efficient collaboration between registries and registrars due to the increasing pairs from new gTLDs (there will be millions of permutations). It was also noted that the DNA's registry-registrar operations Working Group essentially creates what may become a "best practices" guide between registries and registrars. The implementation process needs to have a community approach, circulate fast-acting discussion and provide leadership and participation within the community as well. The DNA's momentum is strong, and is delivering across a multi-stakeholder group. The DNA encourages both DNA and non-DNA members to participate in the working group, which creates a sense of neutrality for the DNA which and guides discussion in a non-biased manner. The main issues can be worked through by harmonizing premium name services between the registries and registrars, standardizing the registry implementations, and find common ground on operation models, such as tiered...