April 29, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) announced on Thursday that it had recently been accredited as a domain registrar by ICANN (icann.org), the body that oversees the domain name system.
“Receiving ICANN accreditation shows that the industry knows it can expect best in class solutions from The Planet,” says Sam Fleitman, vice president of information systems for The Planet. “It extends our offerings to cover even more of customers’ end-to-end hosting needs.”
The Planet is currently offering .com and .net domains for $5.99 per year and will soon offer additional top-level domains such as .org, .biz, .info and .us.
The company says it is making the services available today through Orbit, its customer portal, where customers can manage their domains, and access domain-related services. Unlimited e-mail forwarding, forwarding to any Web site and URL masking for redirecting domain names will soon be added, the company says.
EV1Servers (ev1servers.net) recently received ICANN accreditation. In recent months, some of the industry’s largest players have become ICANN-accredited registrars.
