Canadian
Creates TopLevelDomainicons, and TopLevelDomaintones to Graphically
and Acoustically Represent Top Level Domain Registries
Released on
= January 13, 2005, 3:57 pm
Press Release
Author = MetaCryL
Industry = Internet
& Online
Press Release
Summary = Top Level Domains Such as .COM, .NET and .ORG Can Now
Be Illustrated with an Icon and Sound
Press Release
Body = Canadian Creates TopLevelDomainicons, and TopLevelDomaintones
to Graphically and Acoustically Represent Top Level Domain Registries
Top Level Domains Such as .COM, .NET and .ORG Can Now Be Illustrated
with an Icon
and Sound
( EMAILWIRE.COM,
January 13, 2005 ) Brampton, On. Canada -- Ian Cole of MetaCryL,
today announced the global introduction of TopLevelDomainicons (TLDicons)
and TopLevelDomaintones (TLDtones) - graphic and audio models for
Top Level Domain
Registries .aero .biz .ca .com .co-op .edu .info .museum .net .name
.org .pro .uk and .us, with several others to follow.
“TLDicons
are specific icons, which, when placed with a company’s own
logo, negate the need to use www. and .com, (for example), when
illustrating on-line presence in print form, on signs,
stationary, products, or web pages.” Cole says.
URL FOR FICTICIOUS
COMPANY CALLED WOODWORKING www. woodworking.com
HOW THE COMPANY CURRENTLY INDICATES ONLINE PRESENCE WOODWORKING
. COM INDICATING
ONLINE PRES
ENCE USING A
CUSTOMIZED TLDicon:
Included with
TopLevelDomainicons are their respective audio counterparts, TopLevelDomaintones.
TLDtones are short jingles representing each TopLevelDomainicon.
They offer the same flexibility when internet presence needs to
be conveyed by using a sound. These are used in audio presentations
such as on
radio, or within multimedia. “It’s
an exciting evolution of e-commerce” says Cole, creator of
the TLDicons and TLDtones. “TLDicons have been created to
establish graphically simple and creative icons, which will be recognized
globally, and, have these icons serve as standard identifiers of
their respective Top Level Domain Registers from now on. They are
to provide businesses having an on-line presence, a customizable
graphic that can be
used with distinctive branding to illustrate internet presence.
We all depend
on standards,” Cole points out,“ TLDicons are now the
standard graphics identifying the Top Level Domains.”
In an attempt
to reclaim their distinctive branding, many companies with on-line
presence have dropped the prefix www from everything they possibly
can. Others have attempted to blend the Top Level Domain Registry
into their branding by
incorporating it somehow, by stylizing it, trying to blend it in,
and a variety of other methods, with limited success in reclaiming
their distinctive branding. But no matter how it is changed, .com
( for example) doesn’t blend well with the majority of logos.
“At best
this is creatively adaptive. At worse it is confusing.” says
Cole “ Overall, it means e-commerce is trying to evolve, and
companies are still struggling to indicate on-line presence without
detracting from their well established logo’s. Branding is
a valuable asset to any company, and that asset has to be reclaimed.
At an annual licensing fee of $52.00 U.S., a TopLevelDomainicon
is the low cost flexible solution that business with representation
on the World Wide Web are trying to find.
“The most
valuable aspect about them, is that TLDicons are shell icons. “
Cole points out. “You license the shape of the TLDicon. The
unique flexibility of them ,is that you fill the interior of the
shell with whatever color or graphics you require to compliment
your own branding. You resize the TLDicon to best fit your
logo, then you place it with your logo in the most appropriate position.
When the distinctive elements of a companies own branding are put
into a globally recognized TLDicon, it makes the whole thing almost
seamless - and this, is what makes a
TLDicon, a very, powerful, tool.”
TopLevelDomainicons
with TopLevelDomaintones - the graphic and audio models for Top
Level Domain Registries .aero .biz .ca .com .co-op .edu .info .museum
.net .name .org .pro .uk and .us are available now. Several other
country codes including .de
and .ru , as well as .job and .mobi are to follow very shortly.
TLDicons and TLDtones are licensed products and are protected by
copyright and other forms of intellectual property protection to
insure the standard is maintained.
MetaCryL is
a new startup company with TLDicons being the first offering. TLDicons
were created when entrepreneur Cole was trying to find a way to
avoid using www. and .com on a small product he is developing. “
My well thought out logo no longer
looked so great once it was surrounded by the www and .com. I refused
to let it intrude, so I created a little icon to replace .com. I
realized most companies must have the same problem so I dedicated
myself to creating icons for the other Top Level Domain Registries,
and carefully drafting the standard to support it” says
Cole. “Once I saw the creativeness of the examples on the
site I knew that TopLevelDomainicons were going to be a big help”.
Please, go to
the TopLevelDomainicons graphic licensing site at www.tldicons.com
to learn all about them or contact info@tldicons.com
This press release
was issued through GroupWeb EmailWire.Com. For more information
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Web Site = http://www.tldicons.com
Contact Details
= Please, go to the TopLevelDomainicons graphic licensing site at
www.tldicons.com to learn all about them, you can contact Ian Cole
of MetaCryL at 905-790-9026 or info@tldicons.com.
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