Brampton, On. Canada, January 13, 2005 (Emailwire.com) -- -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.

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