May 29, 2009 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Dot VN, Inc., (http://www.dotvn.com) (OTC BB:DTVI), an Internet and Telecommunications Company and the exclusive online global domain name registrar for the Country of Vietnam, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Hi-Tek Multimedia, Inc. has received exclusive rights from the Vietnamese Government’s Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) to immediately implement and commercialize the official pay-per-click (PPC) parking page for the country code Top Level Domain (“ccTLD”) .VN, and create and promote links for domain registrations, domain appraisals and a smart search engine for the .VN ccTLD.
Through this agreement, Dot VN has received final approval from VNNIC to move beyond the testing phase and begin implementation and commercialization of the parking page, which when deployed, will result in immediate increased revenues for Dot VN. Deployment is expected to occur within 30 to 60 days.
“With the exclusive rights granted by VNNIC, Dot VN is the only company in the world that is allowed by the Vietnamese government to commercialize the PPC parking page,” said Dot VN CEO Thomas Johnson. “Considering that Vietnam is the second fastest growing economy in the world with a population of over 86 million people, we expect that the implementation of this parking page program will serve as the catalyst for a new wave of registrations in of ‘.vn’ domain names by simplifying the registration process and lead to strong revenue growth for the Company based on this new product.”
The Dot VN PPC parking page will be the one and only parking page Internet users will be directed to when typing URL (domain name) addresses that do not yet exist or have expired. From this page, users can either register the available URL through Dot VN’s domain name registration service or click on one of the sponsor (advertising) links. With both options, Dot VN receives revenue, either from the sale of the domain registrations plus a commission from VNNIC or on a pay-per-click basis for sponsor links clicked on.
Dot VN has identified leading technology partners which will assist in the marketing and operations of the PPC parking page.
Statistics on Vietnam’s Internet growth underline the importance of the recent developments between VNNIC and Dot VN. The number of Internet users in Vietnam has grown exponentially. In 2000, there were 430,000 Internet users. As of April 2009, there were over 21,000,000 users, an increase of over 4,780 percent in just eight years.
According to Saigon GP Daily (April 22, 2009), spending on online advertising in Vietnam is expected to be U.S. $45.4 million this year, a 20 percent increase year upon year. Revenues from online advertisements are expected to rise to U.S. $60 million by 2011, or a third higher than this year.
“We believe that the Domain Parking Program will represent a fundamental shift in the way in which Vietnamese domain names are used and monetized,” said Dot VN’s
