ideegeo Group Limited

Media Release:

A Wellington, New Zealand software developer sees greater opportunities to promote its domain registrar technology globally after Internet governing body ICANN changed the rules regarding registrar ownership.

Developers at ideegeo Group Limited launched their registrar service iWantMyName into the European marketplace with both Dutch and German language registrar sites a year ago. Company CEO Paul Spence stated that, “the European sites proved we had a robust and highly scalable technology that we could rapidly deploy into other offshore markets”. The company is forecasting over 200% revenue growth this year.

Mr Spence went on to say that recent rule changes at ICANN meant that domain registries, that oversee all top level domains (TLDs), were now permitted to own and operate their own registrar services allowing them to retail directly to the public. “The number of registered domains has now surpassed 200 million and continues to grow at around 7%. The industry still has a lot of momentum, fuelled by mobile growth, new top level domain launches and plans to make fully internationalized domains available.”

Chief Marketing Officer for ideegeo, Timo Reitnauer said the ICANN rule change opened up a whole new market for the company. “The iWantMyName software has multi-currency capability, inbuilt DNS management and made it easy for end users to domain customise a growing range of web services. We provide partners with a white label offering including a template structure and all the tools they need to translate content into their home language”, he said.

We’ve  proudly launched support for the registration of macronised domain names on iWantMyName, our global domain registrar site, just in time for Māori language week.

Indigenous groups around the world are looking seriously at how best to protect their digital identity, as the Internet continues to impact powerfully in both in economic and sociological terms. Providing macrons for the use of Māori language domains is a small but significant step towards preserving the expression of Māori language online.

We are also pleased to be able to provide advice to Karaitiana Taiuru of the Māori Internet Society who is currently building a case to create dotINDIGI (.INDIGI) a new top level domain for all Indigenous Peoples. “We see the opportunity to write Māori macron characters in web addresses as a long awaited natural progression”, said Mr Taiuru recently. “We are glad that an innovative local venture like iWantMyName is offering this opportunity at such an early stage and their support for Māori language week is highly admirable. It is also a significant step forward for all Indigenous Peoples of the world to be able to have their own online identity without character constraints.”

In addition to Māori macronised domain names, iWantMyName has also successfully implemented Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) for other non Latin characters. For example, an individual or company could now secure a dotCOM (.COM) domain using Chinese, Hindi or Arabic characters. This could be an advantage to a business looking to set up an online presence in a non-English speaking market.

Test the iWantMyName Domain Search with IDNs:

http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=māori
http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=überümlaut
http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=任提谋