The priority registration period for entrepreneurs interested in registering a .frogans address will start on Monday 15 June at 12:00 UTC. This follows the end of a priority registration period for trademark holders.
The priority registration period for entrepreneurs interested in registering a .frogans address will start on Monday 15 June at 12:00 UTC. This follows the end of a priority registration period for trademark holders.As from Monday, any person wishing to develop an initiative based on the publishing of Frogans sites will be able to register a dedicated Frogans network having a network name of their choice, for example a generic term, a geographical name, a community name, a trademark, etc.The priority registration period for entrepreneurs will be presented in detail during the fourth Frogans Technology Conference which will focus on the ecosystem and which takes place in Paris on Wednesday 17 June starting at 16:30 (14:30 UTC).The Frogans initiative is one of the few truly innovative ideas to come out of the new gTLD programme. The .frogans gTLD will not involve selling domain names for websites or email. Rather it will enable the introduction of a new technology for publishing content on the internet. This new technology comes with the registration of a new type of “address” for a new type of “site” that will work everywhere, on every device, but still requires the Domain Name System even if it is invisible to end users.Frogans addresses will be different to other internet addresses. They will be in the format . The only domain names as we’re use to seeing them on the Web will be get.frogans and fcr.frogans. These two domains will be the sources for initial downloads of Frogans Player software and registration of Frogans addresses in the Frogans Core Registry (FCR) [more information at https://nic.frogans/].So what would businesses do with a Frogans site? On a mobile device, they will allow businesses to have an app-like presence. They can include information such as a restaurant could quickly have their menu, a company could have quickly updatable stock or currency information or a news agency could run headlines, sports results and short stories. A small bicycle hire businesses could quickly and easily update how many bicycles are available at any one timeAnd each Frogans site can run on all mobile and desktop platforms using only a small amount of bandwidth, so ideal in countries where mobile data use is expensive. The Frogans sites are also designed to be secure and prevent all types of phishing.Frogans sites remind me of the widgets I use to see on the Windows 7 desktop for weather, currencies and so on. They’re run on the desktop, several can be run at once and their size can vary but the maximum size is 320 x 240 pixels.The Frogans addressing system is designed to be independent of the protocol used between machines such as http and ftp. The “address” used doesn’t use dots or typical addressing symbols – just the name. And with the limited space it’s only possible to do a limited number of things.So registering a Frogans address starting with the network name “frogans” will cost €6 per year. Frogans addresses starting with a personalised network name, e.g. brand, generic term, geographical term, community name, require the registration of a dedicated Frogans network, which will cost an additional €1,500 per year. These fees are paid by FCR account administrators (the registrars in the Frogans addressing system). The registrant/holder price will depend on the sales strategies of FCR account administrators.For end users, they will require a small download for “Frogans Player” and disputes over addresses will be resolved through UDRP-F. The “F” for Frogans.Address characters can be registered in ten language scripts – Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, Korean, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Latin.To attend the conference in person, or to participate remotely, you can register online at https://conference.frogans.org/