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Afilias Receives Excellence in Online Trust Award from the Online Trust Alliance

Afilias was recognized on Thursday, September 23rd at the Online Trust Alliances' fifth annual 2010 Excellence in Online Trust Awards in Washington D.C. for its innovative leadership role in online safety initiatives over the past year.

.ORG, The Public Interest Registry Releases Results of Bi-Annual Domain Name Report, “The Dashboard”

In the first six months of 2010, the .ORG domain grew by 7.6 percent -- more than doubling last year's first half gain of 3.2 percent. This increase in registrations has brought .ORG's total domains under management to an astounding 8.5 million.

Introducing goMobi and Afilias’ New goMobi-Powered Mobile Website

With goMobi's simple intuitive tool, a business can have their new mobile site up in minutes! Better yet, goMobi sites work on any Web-enabled phone, saving resource constrained businesses from any development time for multiple phone apps for different operating systems - goMobi just makes it happen!

A Record Year for .ORG at the Webby Awards

The Webby Awards "celebrates sites that pave important paths to the Internet's next phase," according to the Wall Street Journal. If so, .ORG sites are doing their part by winning 14 of 69 categories, beating last year's number by 3. This means that 20% of Webby Award winners are .ORG sites.

.ORG Wins WebAward for Website Redesign and Selected as a Finalist for the NonProfit PR Awards

PIR has been recognized for its marketing communication campaign for the Rollout of DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions), which included promotion, education and awareness of the need for an upgraded Internet infrastructure with the implementation of DNSSEC.

.ORG First Open Top-Level Domain to be Signed with DNSSEC

Today, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, the company behind the .ORG domain name, is the first open generic Top-Level Domain to successfully sign the .ORG zone file with Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC). To date, the .ORG zone is the largest domain registry to implement the security measure.

Survey Results: .ORG Domains are Informative, Trustworthy and Valuable

We conducted a brand survey at the end of 2008, reaching out to 10,000 Internet users across Europe and North America. We wanted to get a reading on two primary points -- what types of organizations does a .ORG domain represent, and what characteristics are associated with a .ORG domain name.

.ORG at the DOMAINfest Global 2009 Conference

I attended the DOMAINfest Global conference this week in Hollywood, California. There were a great number of learning sessions on domain name acquisition, and value-driving strategies including build-out and monetization.

The Internet as a Democratic Utility

In the wake of our recent news that .ORG has officially registered 7 million domains, some comments made to CNN by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark this week really resonated with me. The article, entitled "Internet Can Strengthen Democracy" discusses many of the same issues we have found to be the driving forces behind .ORG's consistent year-over-year growth -- community building, interaction, and inclusivity.

Myspace.Com Selects UltraDNS To Optimize DNS Infrastructure

MySpace.com has selected UltraDNS Managed DNS to deliver enhanced website performance and support their rapid increase in traffic. By deploying UltraDNS services, MySpace.com has strengthened this critical infrastructure to help achieve its rise to the fourth ranked web domain in terms of page views, according to comScore Media Metrix.