The Planet Obtains ICANN Accreditation

The Planet, a provider of hosting services and solutions, yesterday announced that, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has accredited the company as an official domain name registrar, authorizing it to provide a full range of domain name services.

The Planet is making those services available through Orbit, its unique customer portal for remote management and control. 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.

"Receiving ICANN accreditation shows that the industry knows it can expect best in class solutions from The Planet," said 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."

New .com and .net domain names are immediately available for $5.99 per year of registration. The Planet will soon offer additional Top Level Domains (TLDs), such as .org, .info, .biz, and .us.