The Web hosting provider The Planet (www.theplanet.com) announced on May 2 that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org) has accredited The Planet as an official domain name registrar, authorizing the company to provide a full range of domain name services. The Planet is making those services available through Orbit (www.theplanet.com/orbit), its customer portal for remote management and control. New .com and .net domain names are immediately available for $5.99 per year of registration. The Planet will soon offer additional TLDs such as .org, .info, .biz and .us.
Through Orbit, The Planet's existing customers can purchase, register, transfer and manage domain names and services. Those services include choosing name servers, editing Whois information, changing IP addresses, setting mail servers, locking domains and editing all domain service information. The Planet will soon add unlimited e-mail forwarding, forwarding to any website and URL Masking for redirecting domain names.
Sam Fleitman, Vice President of Information Systems for The Planet, said that receiving ICANN accreditation shows that the industry knows it can expect best in class solutions from The Planet, that it extends The Planet’s offerings to cover even more of customers' end-to-end hosting needs, that The Planet is pleased to give customers more control over this dimension of hosting, and that by making their domain management easy and integrating it with their entire solution, The Planet is helping them concentrate their resources and attention.
