{"id":70908,"date":"2019-08-15T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-pr-internet-domain-turns-30\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:06:08","slug":"el-dominio-de-internet-pr-cumple-30-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-dominio-de-internet-pr-cumple-30-anos\/","title":{"rendered":".PR Internet Domain turns 30!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 15, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Gauss Research Laboratory, Inc, the registry operator for .PR, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> top level domain (TLD), and Afilias, its technology partner, announced today that the .PR domain will reach the milestone of 30 years of service to both the Puerto Rican internet community and the public relations industry as of <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 27, 2019<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg1cb4left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg1cb4left\" title=\"Afilias Logo \" border=\"0\" alt=\"Afilias Logo \" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/621115\/Afilias_SP_Logo.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Oscar Moreno<\/span>, CEO of Gauss Research Laboratory said: &#8220;We are pleased to reach the milestone of 30 years of providing internet addresses that represent both the Puerto Rican people and public relations practitioners to the world.\u00a0 We are very proud of this achievement, which underscores our technology capabilities and our ability to contribute to the betterment of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>. .PR will always be a key partner in <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fortunate to provide technology to support such a popular and growing TLD&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Hal Lubsen<\/span>, Chief Executive Officer of Afilias.\u00a0 &#8220;30 years on the internet makes .PR almost as old as the internet itself, and Oscar and his team have done an amazing job.\u00a0 We offer our sincere congratulations on this significant accomplishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, .PR is home to thousands of sites, including leading Puerto Rican firms such as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=3763057293&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elnuevodia.pr%2F&amp;a=www.ElNuevoDia.pr\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.ElNuevoDia.pr<\/a>, local sites for global brands like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=1227159253&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lincoln.com.pr%2F&amp;a=www.lincoln.com.pr\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.lincoln.com.pr<\/a>,\u00a0 and public relations practices like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=3098657497&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarity.pr%2F&amp;a=www.clarity.pr\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.clarity.pr<\/a>.\u00a0 .PR joins several other &#8220;country code&#8221; TLDs in offering a special significance beyond a geo-designator (e.g. ME: <span class=\"xn-location\">Montenegro&#8217;s<\/span> code marketed as a personal address; and .IO: Indian Ocean Territories, but popular as &#8220;input\/output&#8221; for tech firms). Savvy public relations firms know that a .PR name enables them to quickly differentiate themselves from the millions of other agency types on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to managing the TLD, Gauss Research Laboratory has been a responsible and generous member of the Puerto Rican and global internet communities. This week, .PR is hosted a capacity building DNS workshop for its <span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span> neighbours in conjunction with LACTLD, an association of Latin American and Caribbean TLD managers. .PR brought the entire global internet community to <span class=\"xn-location\">San Juan<\/span> for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=245676595&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.icann.org%2Fen%2Fmeetings%2Fsanjuan2007%2F&amp;a=ICANN29\" rel=\"nofollow\">ICANN29<\/a> in June of 2007, and for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=4179160788&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmeetings.icann.org%2Fen%2Fsanjuan61&amp;a=ICANN61\" rel=\"nofollow\">ICANN61<\/a> in March, 2018 &#8212; the first major international event following Hurricane Maria. .PR has sponsored STEM classes (especially robotics and programming), the deaf community (Colegio San Gabriel FENAPUS), &#8220;Foros de NASA para Maestros K-12&#8221; workshops for over 500 teachers, and much more <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=1071964847&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fdomains.pr%2Fsocial.php&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fdomains.pr%2Fsocial.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/domains.pr\/social.php<\/a>. It also provides free names to all units and departments of government.<\/p>\n<p>The .PR TLD underwent a major technical upgrade in early 2018, when Afilias became its technology partner and enabled EPP (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=2001059156&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftools.ietf.org%2Fhtml%2Fstd69&amp;a=Extensible+Provisioning+Protocol\" rel=\"nofollow\">Extensible Provisioning Protocol<\/a>) for registrars.\u00a0 EPP capability fully automates name creation and management, bringing .PR up to the global standard and opening the door for more registrars to offer it. Distribution has since grown over 50%. EPP joined DNSSEC (2005) and IPv6 (2006) to ensure that all .PR names run on a state-of-the-art registry system that has full redundancy and is more secure and reliable. This helps make it even more &#8220;hurricane proof,&#8221; and assures .PR site managers that the names supporting their sites and email will be up and running no matter what the weather may bring. Local service to .PR names will be even faster in 2020, when an authoritative nameserver will be activated in <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> itself.<\/p>\n<p>To help promote its 30-year anniversary, Puerto Rican organizations, public relations companies and others interested in a .PR address will be able to take advantage of special pricing at participating registrars in August and September.\u00a0 Now is a prime opportunity to purchase a domain name for your company, mission or agency that sets you apart from your competitors.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Gauss Research Laboratory, Inc.<br \/><\/b>Gauss Research Laboratory, Inc., is a company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> and headquartered in R\u00edo Piedras, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>. Company founder Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Oscar Moreno de Ayala<\/span> embarked on the responsibility of managing .PR and building it from its early foundations\u00a0to promote a solid registry providing Puerto Ricans with accessible services and tools and aiding in the development of a reliable IT community throughout the island while also serving as the perfect Top Level Domain for those in the Public Relations Industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Afilias<\/b><br \/>Afilias is the world&#8217;s second largest domain registry, with over 20 million domain names under management in over 200 top level domains. Afilias powers a wide variety of top-level domains, including TLDs for countries, cities, brands, communities and generic terms. Afilias&#8217; specialized technology makes Internet addresses more accessible and useful through a broad range of applications, including Internet <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=3683794846&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcts.businesswire.com%2Fct%2FCT%3Fid%3Dsmartlink%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.afilias.info%252Fglobal-registry-services%26esheet%3D51219946%26newsitemid%3D20151109005831%26lan%3Den-US%26anchor%3Ddomain%2Bregistry%2Bservices%26index%3D3%26md5%3Da11520bc632b71167fc073c4af0e9875&amp;a=domain+registry+services\" rel=\"nofollow\">domain registry services<\/a><\/u>, <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=1901487327&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcts.businesswire.com%2Fct%2FCT%3Fid%3Dsmartlink%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.afilias.info%252Fproducts-services%252Fdns%26esheet%3D51219946%26newsitemid%3D20151109005831%26lan%3Den-US%26anchor%3Dmanaged%2BDNS%26index%3D4%26md5%3D0895faab3301f8fe8603da786d04b9d2&amp;a=managed+DNS\" rel=\"nofollow\">managed DNS<\/a><\/u>, and <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=2445017262&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcts.businesswire.com%2Fct%2FCT%3Fid%3Dsmartlink%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdotmobi.com%252F%26esheet%3D51219946%26newsitemid%3D20151109005831%26lan%3Den-US%26anchor%3Dmobile%2BWeb%2Bservices%26index%3D5%26md5%3D0e16c399b87708c991306f1c75f0a08c&amp;a=mobile+Web+services\" rel=\"nofollow\">mobile Web services<\/a><\/u>. Afilias, Inc. is based near <span class=\"xn-location\">Philadelphia<\/span> \u2013 offices are also located in <span class=\"xn-location\">Dublin Ireland<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Toronto Canada<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New Delhi India<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Melbourne Australia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Vista California<\/span>, and Beijing China.\u00a0 Afilias holds a Guinness World Records title for the &#8220;Largest migration of an internet top-level domain in a single transition&#8221; for its migration of the .au top-level domain in 2018. For more information on Afilias services please visit <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=4229238075&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcts.businesswire.com%2Fct%2FCT%3Fid%3Dsmartlink%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.afilias.info%252F%26esheet%3D51219946%26newsitemid%3D20151109005831%26lan%3Den-US%26anchor%3Dwww.afilias.info%26index%3D6%26md5%3Dc3e00275e41512fe7cd9b8ee5eaa968a&amp;a=www.afilias.info\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.afilias.info<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><b>For More Information:<br \/><\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Alan Wallace<\/span>, Afilias<b>, <\/b>Director of Corporate Communications<b><br \/><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:press@afilias.info\" rel=\"nofollow\">press@afilias.info<\/a> <br \/>+1.425.691.8757 cell<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2552488-2&amp;h=4278109241&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F621115%2FAfilias_SP_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F621115%2FAfilias_SP_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/621115\/Afilias_SP_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Afilias<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 15, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Gauss Research Laboratory, Inc, the registry operator for .PR, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> top level domain (TLD), and Afilias, its technology partner, announced today that the .PR domain will reach the milestone of 30 years of service to both the Puerto Rican internet community and the public relations industry as of <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 27, 2019<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div id=&quot;prni_dvprnejpg1cb4left&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-y-tecnologia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}