In our previous post talking about the 2013 ICANN RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement), we described the changes mandated for the public WHOIS format. Now, let’s take a look at another critical requirement from the RAA, which stems from the Whois Data Accuracy Specification. The requirements from this specification will have a considerable impact on customers and domain holders, and we are about to make certain changes in the system to fulfill them. Verifying the Registrant’s…
Upon signing the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement there will be some critical changes to the system and obligations of a Reseller with respect to domain registration services. With a series of blog posts to come, we will highlight the changes Resellers can expect in the system which will go live by 1st January 2014. Today we want to talk about the change in the WHOIS output format prescribed by ICANN in the 2013 RAA According…
The ResellerClub Hosting Summit has a bunch of speakers that will impart important industry knowledge and recognise growing trends. Here’s the lineup of speakers that are known to deliver some really compelling presentations relating to the Web Services industry.
Day 1
Bhavin Turakia – Directi and ResellerClub
Over 12 years of technology experience and over 9 years of Market knowledge and is today chiefly responsible for the entire Vision, Strategy, and Service Offerings of the ResellerClub group. He also opened last year’s conference with an amazing keynote session on the India Story and opportunity for Web Hosts in India. You can watch it here.
Manish Dalal – Verisign Asia
Manish Dalal is the VP & Head of Verisign Asia, which is the authoritative registry for the DotCOM, DotNET, TLDs. Mr. Dalal has over 20 years of experience in the Internet and Mobile domains in both corporate and management consulting environments. He also spoke at the opening keynote at the ResellerClub Hosting Summit last year. He spoke about the Indian market and the opportunities it offers to the Web Hosting Industry. You can watch his entire Opening Keynote session here.
Kuek Yu-Chuang – ICANN
Kuek Yu-Chuang is ICANN‘s vice president for global stakeholder engagement for the Asia Region and managing director of its Singapore hub office.
Before joining ICANN in August 2013, Kuek served as a Senior Director for Yahoo! Inc., where he led the company’s public policy efforts in the Asia Pacific and Latin American regions.
Kartik Taneja – Google
Kartik Taneja is the head of Channel Sales and SMB Partnerships at Google. Mr. Taneja and his team at Google are helping SME’s in India use the power and potential of the digital medium to grow their business. He held an enlightening speaker session at the first ResellerClub Hosting Summit. You can watch the session on “SME in India: Think Digital with Google” here.
David Snead – I2 Coalition
David Snead is the co founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (I2 Coalition). The company supports those who build the nuts and bolts of the Internet and seeks to foster growth within the Internet infrastructure industry by driving others to harness the Internet’s full potential. Mr. Snead is an attorney with a general practice – focused exclusively on Internet based companies and issues. He has practiced in this area for over 10 years, both in-house and as outside counsel.
Anand Vora – .ORG
Anand Vora is a Channel Manager at Public Interest Registry with a focus on Asia Pacific. He has been a part of Public Interest Registry since mid 2009 and has been instrumental in growing .ORG registrations and brand awareness outside of North America and Europe.His experience includes account management, business development, channel management, market research and competitive analysis.He has previously worked in the real estate development business and computer networking field. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and a MBA in International Business and Marketing from George Washington University. Mr. Vora will be talking about ‘Staying Relevant in the New Domain Name Space’.
John Fearon – Dropmysite
Dropmysite was founded in 2011 by John Fearon, after his website crashed but he found that there were no solutions available to prevent it from happening again. Dropmysite is a free service that lets you backup your websites automatically and easily. Mr. Fearon, armed with his years of experience as an Online Marketing Professional will be discussing ‘The Future of Marketing Cloud’ during his session.
Day 2
Edmon Chung – DotAsia
Edmon Chung is the CEO at DotAsia whose core mandate is to promote Internet development and adoption in Asia. Since the launch of the “DotAsia” TLD through 2007 and 2008, DotAsia has contributed funds and support to many different Community Projects around Asia. IDN and its implications for small businesses in India. Edmon is an inventor of patents underlying technologies for internationalized domain names (IDN) and email addresses on the Internet.
Arkadiusz Szczurowski – SSLGuru
Arkadiusz Szczurowski is the CEO & and Founder of SSLGuru. Service SSLGURU.com has been created for all Internet users who want to create higher level of on-line security. SSLGuru provides all types of SSL certificates. You can find SSL technology to secure domain names (one or more), e-mails, files etc. You can watch his speaker session on ‘Safe Data Transmission’ from RCHS 2012 here.
Shridhar Luthria – ResellerClub
Shridhar is ResellerClub’s business head and leads all business activities and initiatives. He has been steering the team since inception and has helped the company grow from a start-up to the world’s most popular platform for domain names.
A strong believer in leading from the front, Shridhar’s hands-on-approach has given him a keen insight into the Web Services industry. An entrepreneur at heart, Shridhar is passionate about marketing strategy & mass media.
We hope you have already registered for the ResellerClub Hosting Summit 2013! In case you haven’t, you can find details on the event here and Register for free here! Once you’ve registered for the conference, you can access the Dashboard where you can create your own profile, book flight tickets and hotel rooms, and set up meetings with the Sponsors for RCHS 2013! To compete in the RCHS Referral Contest, all you have to do is: Log…
ResellerClub is thrilled to announce that registrations for the 2nd edition of the ResellerClub Hosting Summit are now open. The Summit will be held on the 17th & 18th of October, 2013, at Hyatt Regency in Gurgaon, New Delhi. After the spectacular success of last year’s event which attracted over 1800 attendees and witnessed participation from several major industry brands, the ResellerClub Hosting Summit is now back as Asia’s Largest Conference dedicated exclusively for the…
We recently attended the hosting industry’s annual conference, HostingCon 2013 (Read our blog roundup here). The conference was held recently in Austin, Texas from the 17th to the 19th of June 2013. We had the opportunity to meet and interact with a bunch of our clients and resellers. We caught up with Anand Vora from PIR, the .ORG Registry who shared his thoughts about HostingCon and his experience working with ResellerClub. Watch the interview here:…
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