Unity Registry Announces Bid for .org
June 9, 2002
London/Melbourne/Washington DC - Unity Registry, a new joint venture between UK-based Poptel, registry operator for the .coop global Top Level Domain (gTLD), and Australian based AusRegistry, the registry (wholesale provider) for Domain Names in .com.au, .net.au, .org.au, .id.au, .gov.au, .edu.au and .asn.au, will be launched on Monday 10th June 2002.
The global partnership to create Unity Registry has been formed to bid for the .org Top Level Internet domain. The launch announcement will be made at a meeting in Geneva of major intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies in the .org namespace. This is one of a series of consultation meetings conducted by Poptel on the .org divestiture issue.
Adrian Kinderis Managing Director of AusRegistry said: "This alliance is very powerful. Between Poptel and AusRegistry we run both a new gTLD and a major ccTLD registry. We have successfully transitioned a registry from one operator to another and the technology AusRegistry brings to the table is significant as it utilises the latest in Registry Protocol."
Poptel spokesman Malcolm Corbett added: ".org is an important and valuable part of the Internet. Poptel has a long history of working with not for profit organisations and we have strong support for our proposals from the .org community. With .coop we have proved that we can deliver a first rate registry service. Pooling our knowledge and resources with AusRegistry in Unity Registry is a tremendous step forward."
In addition to their technical capabilities the Unity Registry partners promise to propose an innovative mechanism for user involvement in determining the future direction of the .org namespace.
Speaking from Washington DC David Johnson, well-known in ICANN circles and keen supporter of Unity Registry's bid commented: "Poptel's approach to .org has always seemed the most attractive to me. The new Unity Registry creates a sound technical and operational platform and a strong new gTLD registry competitor. Based on Poptel's deep understanding of the not for profit sector and an imaginative plan for the development of .org, the Unity Registry proposal will set the standard against which other bids will be judged."
Contacts Details
United States
Samantha Allen
T. +1 415 339 1600
F. +1 415 298 1779
Samantha@chocolatecom.com
UK/Europe
Malcolm Corbett
T. +44 20 7284 6971
M.+44 7770 896534
Malcolm.Corbett@poptel.coop
Australia/Asia-Pacific
Adrian Kinderis
T. +61 3 9866 3710
adrian@ausregistry.com.au
Notes to Editors
AusRegistry Pty. Ltd. was selected by .au Domain Administration (auDA) to provide registry services in December 2001 in the Australian Domain Name space(including .com.au and id.au). .au is one of the most important country code top level domains (ccTLDs) with approximately 300,000 registrations.
Poptel and its partners in DotCoop launched the new .coop registry on 30th January 2002. .coop is one of the seven new global Top Level domains approved by ICANN in November 2000 and is dedicated to the use of the worldwide community of cooperative enterprises.
Poptel has been in existence since 1986 providing on-line services to the non-profit communities in the UK and globally.
For more information see:
www.unityregistry.org
www.poptel.coop
www.coop
