Gary Thompson

I wanted to let everyone know that our company has an announcement to make to the domain name community that will help expand your domain portfolio and also provide an additional tool to sell to your clients. Starting today, The Vietnam Internet Network Information Center ("VNNIC") has granted to Dot VN the exclusive rights to register twenty-four industry specific sub-domain names ("Industry Domains") to be managed directly by Dot VN. The goal of Dot VN's Industry Domain service is to create the leading resource for Vietnamese businesses and customers, both domestically and worldwide, to find each other. This new service allows a ".VN" domain registrant to register sub domains under the new Industry Domains which includes "banks.vn", "hotels.vn", "fashion.vn", "it.vn", "arts.vn" and "cars.vn". Thus, for example, customers will be able to register and be listed on Dot VN's directory "[bank name].banks.vn" or "[company name].business.vn" based on their particular industry. This service helps to offer more options to your customers who are already invested with 2nd and 3rd level .VN domain names.

The Industry Domain service is in the sunrise period, which will run until May 31, 2009, during which time registrants who own trademarks can register a domain name containing their owned mark. Beginning June 1, 2009, all sub domains within the Dot VN Industry Domain service will be open for general registration. The Industry Domain service will be offered at 100 USD per sub domain per year. A full list of all 24 Industry Domains is available for review at www.vn/vnnic/vnnic/industrydomains.jsp.

If you have any questions please contact us and we will provide assistance. To submit a sunrise pre registration, please visit the below link or submit directly to register@dotvn.com. For any reseller inquiries and to get more information about the discount program please contact me by email. Cheers.

http://www.dot.vn/vnnic/vnnic/industrydomains.jsp

Gary Thompson
Director
.VN ccTLD
Gary@Dotvn.com