eNom Announces New Portal to Promote and Educate on Uses of .ORG

BELLEVUE, Wash. – March 24, 2011 – eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesale registrar, today announced the launch of a new portal, org.eNom.com, designed to drive awareness of the multiple uses for the .ORG top-level domain name (TLD).  The new .ORG marketing portal features information to help companies and organizations learn how to best use the .ORG TLD in order to create programs around corporate and social responsibility.

“We believe that .ORG is a powerful and universal brand,” said Chris Sheridan, vice president of business development for eNom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Demand Media™. “Through our partnership with The Public Interest Registry (PIR), we have leveraged our content creation platform to develop a destination that can educate people on the benefits of the .ORG TLD.”

Org.eNom.com was created using professional articles produced through Demand Media's studio of creative professionals and are published in categories that map to the top uses of .ORG, which include Corporate Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Non-profit, Small and Mid-sized Businesses and Building Online Communities.   The information includes overviews on these topics as well as instructional information on how to leverage the .ORG TLD to build an online presence.

"The eNom portal is an excellent site for resellers and end-users to learn about .ORG, the globally recognized domain extension for nonprofits as well as individuals and organizations looking to share, build and promote their online communities or causes," said Brian Cute, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry.

In addition to registering a .ORG domain name, eNom customers have access to the company’s simple website building and hosting tools, to get their sites up and running quickly.  With the basic site built, customers can also use eNom’s unique RichContent solution, a continuously updated pool of over four million rights-cleared articles and videos through a simple, self-serve widget that can be added in minutes using an easy, step-by-step wizard.  This tool, like the content on org.enom.com, is powered by Demand Media's social publishing platform.

RichContent is a subscription-based service that provides relevant or topical content and is available for a free 30-day trial period.  Pricing is available monthly or annually.

About eNom

eNom makes it possible for individuals and organizations to buy and sell Internet domains and services. Our partners rely on eNom to conduct or compliment their business objectives, whether new to the market or an established organization.  Via our pioneering parent company, Demand Media, eNom has a proven track record of achieving success through a portfolio of vertical web properties reaching more than 100 million monthly visitors, a global network of digital partners, and an innovative content studio.  We leverage our collective knowledge from growing our own business lines to help empower our partners to do the same.

About .ORG, The Public Interest Registry

Trusted across all ages, backgrounds and nationalities, .ORG is where people turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes and support advocacy. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry empowers the global noncommercial community to use the Internet more effectively and, concurrently, takes a leadership position among Internet stakeholders on policy and related issues. The .ORG domain is the Internet's third largest "generic" or non-country specific top-level domain with more than 9 million domain names registered worldwide. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, was founded by the Internet Society in 2002. It is based in Reston, Virginia, USA. http://pir.org

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