Vox Populi Registry, the company bringing dotSucks domain names to the Internet, has announced that its technology platform services provider, Neustar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR), has been given the Registry’s first-ever “Best Business Partner” award.
Created last December, Vox Populi Registry, located in the Cayman Islands, initially partnered with Australia-based ARI Services as its back-end technology provider. Neustar, based in Sterling, Virgina acquired that company last Summer.
The award – “Recognizing exemplary technical support in year one of the domain name registry” — was presented to Adrian Kinderis, former CEO of Bombora Technologies (ARI’s parent company) and now VP, Corporate Development at Neustar, at the domain name conference, NamesCon, this week in Las Vegas.
“Our success in this first year of operation is a product of our business plan, marketing, sales channel and rock-solid technical support for our names,” said John Berard, Vox Populi Registry’s CEO. “Neustar is making sure of it. They’ve earned this award.”
The award acknowledges that Neustar was essential to Vox Populi Registry’s success as its “impeccable” technical platform allowed Vox Populi Registry to devote itself full-time to market awareness and sales.
Vox Populi Registy is just one of hundreds of companies bringing new Internet domain names online. The program, managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN, was designed to help people better portray their digital identity.
According to Berard, dotSucks names offer an unprecedented opportunity for people with a point-of-view not just to speak, but be more likely heard.
“As a provocative service, with deep roots in free speech and fast-growing branches of comment and criticism, it was imperative to rally a set of business partners who could support us in our mission,” Berard said. “First as ARI and then as Neustar, they did the job.”
