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CentralNic signs Registry Agreement
CentralNic signs Registry Agreement.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 3219X CentralNic Group PLC 10 January 2014 \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\nPress Release\n\n\n10 January 2014 \n\n\n\n\n \nCentralNic Group plc\n \n(\"CentralNic\" or \"the Company\" or \"the Group\")\n \nCentralNic signs Registry Agreement with co.com\nCentralNic plc (AIM:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the worldwide distribution of internet domain names, today announces that it has signed a registry agreement with co.com LLC, under which CentralNic will provide the technical registry services to make domain names ending .co.com available for worldwide purchase through registrars. \nThe newly-launched co.com registry will have an open registration policy; any company, organisation or individual will be eligible to register domain names such as companyname.co.com, organisation.co.com, or anything.co.com. \nCentralNic has already built a very successful global business, offering domain names using country-specific .com domain extensions like .UK.com and .US.com.\nIt was recently announced that co.com LLC has appointed as its CEO Ken Hansen, formerly Senior Director of Business Development, and GM of the .NYC Top-Level Domain at Neustar (NYSE:NSR). Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic, commented: \"The co.com LLC team includes an impressive line-up of domain industry experts. Any registry service provider would be excited to support this new domain extension. We are delighted to have been awarded this contract.\" \nCommenting on the agreement with CentralNic, Ken Hansen, CEO of co.com LLC, said: \"co.com provides CentralNic with the opportunity to enable a global extension ending in .com. We look forward to benefiting from CentralNic's experience, and tapping into their global registrar distribution network.\"\nco.com LLC will capitalise on its ability to get to market quickly, while many of the new generic top level domains (\"gTLDs\") must wait to complete the ICANN approval process. Premium domain names such as travel.co.com, tickets.co.com, wine.co.com, insurance.co.com and spa.co.com, are available now.\nFor those who wish to enquire about premium domain names, receive launch updates and any additional information as it becomes available can subscribe to the email list and find contact information at www.registry.co.com.\n - Ends -...