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.pw - The Professional Web is the re-launched registry for the Open ccTLD for Palau, .pw. The Professional Web is a subsidiary of Directi, which operates prominent registrars, hosting, and development companies, and is also an applicant for 30 new gTLDs. Despite these applications, the launching of the now-open ccTLD represents the Directi group's first active registry operation. The official launch of the TLD is ICANN 45 in Toronto, with a sunrise period beginning in December, 2012.

The .pw ccTLD was delegated to the Pacific island nation of Palau in 1997. It has been redelegated a number of times, and Directi obtained exclusive rights over the .pw - The Professional Web in 2004 from EnCirca, the registrar that originally launched the eponymous acronym. Prior plans for the ccTLD were to create a bundled social media and messaging product, though that project did not come to fruition, and so the ccTLD has seen little registration and is consequently now open for wide growth

Technical registry functions will be handled by CentralNic, which will support DNSSEC, IPv6, and multiple IDNs. While the Directi group includes its own registrars, such as LogicBoxes and ResellerClub, it is also looking for other registrars to sell .pw.

Directi is valued at $300+ million. With more than 1,000 employees, the company serves over 1,000,000 customers and has 50,000+ channel partners, which is growing at a rate of 120% per annum. Its other subsidiaries include LogicBoxes,ResellerClub, WebHosting.Info, Skenzo, BigRock and Radix. The latter is an applicant for 31 new gTLDs, and has secured over $31 million in investment for its applications and future registry operations.

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