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Attention Technology Reporters:
Namescout Reports Growing Dot-Name Interest - First Dot-Names Go Live Next Week
Wilmington, Delaware and Canberra, Australia / Jan 11 2002 - Thousands of individuals
are pre-registering their personal dot-names in the countdown to the launch of the
world's newest Internet addresses.
"Tuesday, January 15, marks the dawn of a new era on the Internet," said
Rob Hall, President and CEO of Namescout.com. "For the first time, there is an
Internet registry designed exclusively for people, aimed at giving individuals
their very own personal name on the Net. As more and more people hear about the
Net's new personal addresses, they're signing up - every day this week, we've been
busy handling new registrations."
Pre-registrations for dot-name are available online at www.namescout.com.
In October, Namescout.com was accredited by London-based Global Name Registry
as the world's first dot-name registrar, and has since been accepting online
pre-registrations from individuals who wish to be among the first to "put their
name on the net". The first pre-registrations become usable on the Internet on
January 15. For the next few months, new dot-name registrations will continue to
be processed and resolved every couple of weeks, until the process of launching
the world's newest Internet registry is fully completed in May and real time
registration is fully available.
"People recognize that dot-name is different - the domain and the unique
e-mail address will give people a personal presence in the new Global Village,"
said Hall. "Until now, individuals have had little choice but to compete with
businesses and governments and other organizations in the 40 million dot-com,
dot-biz and other Internet names space."
With dot-name registrations, people also gain an e-mail address that they
can forward to whatever work or home address they wish. "Think of it - an e-mail
address you can keep for life, and which is as easy for friends and family to
remember as your name," said Hall. "As people learn more about dot-name, demand
is going to keep getting stronger and stronger."
Namescout.com has been at the forefront of Internet development since the
earliest days. ICANN-accredited (and now ranked among the world's top 50 registrars),
Namescout.com was recently accredited as the world's first registrar for the brand-new
dot-name domain, and has just been provisionally accredited by the Australian Domain
Authority (auDA) among Australia's first wave of new dot-au registrars. Sister company
Internic.ca was Canada's first dot-ca accredited registrar and is now Canada's leading
dot-ca registrar. Namescout.com and Internic.ca are owned by Momentous.ca of Ottawa,
Canada, and serve customers around the globe from offices in North America, Australia
and the Caribbean. They are the world's only registrar group simultaneously accredited
by ICANN, CIRA, auDA and the Global Name Registry.
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For more information, or to arrange a media interview, please visit www.namescout.com or contact:
In North America: Lisa McAdam at lisa@namescout.com or 613.715.3544
In Australia: Liz Williams at liz@namescout.com.au or 02.6282.8518 or 04.1426.9000