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BulkRegister Renews Domains for Hurricane Victims

The world`s leading business registrar, BulkRegister, has recently announced that it will be automatically renewing all domains which are scheduled to expire through September 16th, as well as those already expired. This is a complimentary service for those members who are based in the affected areas, and who manage domains with BulkRegister. This way, members` domains will continue to function, and those members who have been dislocated by Hurricane Katrina will be allowed to maintain ownership of their domains.

To qualify for complimentary auto-renewal, domains must have already expired or be scheduled to expire by September 16, 2005, and the members address must be in a zip code deemed closed to mail service by the United States Postal Service as of August 31st, 2005. BulkRegisters` members in areas hit by the storm manage thousands of domains, many of which provide access to the web sites of important businesses. If such domains were to expire, the web sites associated with them would become inaccessible, resulting in lost business and the possible loss of the domain name itself.

`We do not want BulkRegister members devastated by Hurricane Katrina to be further burdened by worrying about their domains expiring during this terrible upheaval in their lives,` said Eric Rice, General Manager of BulkRegister. `Many of these members manage hundreds of domain names, and they currently have no access to a computer or phone to renew key domains. This small courtesy is the least we can do to make sure that critical domains are not lost. We encourage the entire reseller and registrar community to extend similar support to their domain holders.`