Recent News

May 14, 2008 (New Jersey, USA) - Today PakNIC announced that the first release of API for domain resellers is expected to be available to all customers on Monday, the May 19, 2008. API interface will allow resellers to make LIVE queries for domain name availability, register individual domain names as well as in bulk. API will also allow users making LIVE changes to the domain names in their account.

Access to the API will be restricted to PAKNIC Resellers and will be secured with a...

April 26, 2008 - PakNIC is pleased to announce that .ASIA domains are LIVE effective immediately. Customers can place order online.

Monday April 21, 2008 - Today PakNIC went live with .MOBI mTLD and orders for .mobi domain names are now being accepted.

Further, a new international language "Hindi" translation is now available in domain management control panel at https://www.paknic.com/manage

Verisign Announced Increasing prices for .COM and .NET

Verisign, the registry operator for .com and .net domain names, recently announced that beginning on October 1, 2008, the registry fee for .com and .net domain names will increase by approximately 44 cents per year. ICANN fee of $0.20 and PAKNIC management fees would remain the same until further notice. Please note, this price increase comes from the registry and not from PAKNIC.

Because the current contract between ICANN and the...

March 15, 2008 - Today PakNIC is proud to announce the release of multi-lingual domain management control panel with DNS Manager in 10 international languages including Urdu, Arabic, Malay, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and English.

The web control panel allows customers to update domain registrant, admin, technical and billing contact information along with other features such as:

- Domain Locking/Unlocking - DNS Server changes - DNS Manager - Host Name/DNS...

March 17, 2008 - PakNIC is proud to announce launch of International Domain Names (IDN [wikipedia]) in multiple languages including Urdu and Pushto. The domain registration interface is live at http://www.paknic.com/idn/.

What is IDN?

Browser support for navigating to URLs written in users' native languages is critical for making the Internet truly international. Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) composed of Unicode characters from all of the world's languages and relies upon a...

March 08, 2008 - Today PakNIC is happy to announce that our Customer Support Portal with online Ticket System, Knowledgebase Articles, FAQs, News, Downloads and Live Chat with customer support representatives is now live from Pakistan and USA offices supporting customers round the clock.

PDA Interface: http://support.paknic.com/pda/index.php

W@P Interface: http://support.paknic.com/wap/index.php

PakNIC Admin Team!

PAKNIC represent PAKISTAN in 31st ICANN Conference at New Delhi from 10-15 Feb, 2008

Two senior officials from PAKNIC (Pvt.) Limited Pakistan offices, Mr. Aqeel Ahmad (Director) and Syed Ahsan Fahmi (Senior Manager) represented PAKISTAN and PAKNIC in 31st ICANN Quarterly meeting at New Delhi, India.

A total of 720 participants from 76 countries, including 290 participants from the host country India, took part in the meeting, and helped ICANN move forward on a number of discussions...

November 21, 2007

Dear Customer,

It has been a long time since our last communication and I thought we should let you know what new and "good" things are happening here at PakNIC Private Limited. As you may know and have read in local newspapers that PakNIC (Private) Limited, the first ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) accredited domain registrar in Pakistan is now live from November 9th, 2007 with offices in Gulberg-V, Lahore and operation center in New...

PAKNIC Takes the Credit to Present Pakistan in ICANN as PakNIC Private Limited, the first ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar went live today, the October 30th, 2007.

Lahore, October 31, 2007: PakNIC (Pvt.) Limited (www.paknic.com), the first ICANN accredited domain registrar in Pakistan, today announced, that it is now fully functional and live using its in-house developed new online system under leadership of Mr. Khalil Ahmad, CEO & Chairman of PakNIC (Pvt.) Limited and ex-Vice President...