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New Lower Price for .TV domains and a .TV Promo!

By James Koole on August 4th, 2010
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Good news! Starting August 4th, 2010, we’re dropping the price for new .TV domains to just $19/domain year. That new price applies to all resellers and will be in effect through May 31, 2011.

But wait! There’s more!

Better news! Not only are we lowering our wholesale price, but we’re also rolling out a .TV promo at the same time. Resellers who sign up for the .TV promotion and agree to do some marketing around .TV domains will see their cost for new .TV domain registrations drop to just $12/domain year from now until May 31, 2011. Signup here.

Like other promotions you are required to do some marketing/promotion of .TV domains on your website or through an email campaign. The discount will be paid in the form of a rebate deposited monthly.

To sum it up:

The regular price for new .TV domain registrations is now $19/domain year for all Resellers, through May 31, 2011.
We’re offering a .TV promo starting today – signup and do some marketing to get an even better price of $12/year for new .TV registrations through May 31, 2011.
The lower pricing applies to new .TV domains only, but multi-year registrations do qualify. Renewals and transfers will continue to be priced at $35/domain year.

About .TV domains

.TV domains are made for websites with video. To help drive sales of new .TV domains, consider suggesting that new customers purchase the .TV domain to go with a .com or other domain extension to showcase videos, screencasts and other multimedia content. Many of your existing customers might also be interested in picking up the .tv version of their domain name as well.

With the increasing availability of easy to use tools for video content creation and sharing, demand for .TV domains will continue to grow. This special pricing on .TV domains makes it even easier for the average person to get their own place online to show and share video content.

Find out more about .TV domains:

Tags: .tv, Domains Service, promo
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.CO General Availability Launch Update

By Ben Lucier on July 20th, 2010
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At 18:00 UTC (2:PM EDT), the .CO registry began accepting domain name registrations from approved registrars. If you have queued .CO domain names, these orders are being sent to the registry as quickly as possible.

Registrant details will use Tucows details temporarily

The .CO registry permits a set number of active connections per registrar, so our development team has streamlined the process as much as possible to make the most efficient use of these connections in order to register as many names as possible, in the fastest possible manner.

One of the ways we’re optimizing the queue and to maximize the number of successful General Availability orders, we will be attempting to secure the name first, and then, if we are successful, we’ll assign the proper contact information. The temporary contact will use Tucows contact information. DO NOT PANIC if you or your customers see Tucows listed as the registrant – be patient, and the proper information will be added to the record soon after.

Resellers using Storefront

If you’re a reseller using Storefront, .CO will be enabled shortly. You will need to enable it and setup pricing first before your customers will have it as a registration option however. See the section on ‘Enabling or Disabling TLDs’ in the Storefront Reseller User Guide for more information.

A reminder on pricing

Wholesale pricing can be found on our Domain Service page, under pricing, but here’s a quick reminder about .CO pricing:

2nd level registrations (ie. example.co) are $25 per year,
3rd level registrations (ie. example.com.co) $13 per year.

Status updates for .CO

We maintain a System Status tool for all services we offer and the .CO registry has been added to the ccTLD section. You can access these status updates via web, email subscription and RSS. For any performance and availability related incidents we experience during the queued registration period, or afterward, this status page is your best resource for realtime information monitoring of all OpenSRS services.

If you’re a Twitter user, you can also find our updates at: @OpenSRSStatus

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Holiday Hours for Canada Day, July 1

By Ben Lucier on June 28th, 2010
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Canadian flag
Thursday, July 1st is Canada Day and Tucows HQ here in Toronto will be operating on holiday hours.

The picture of Canada’s flag is courtesy of Ian Muttoo. Thanks for making your photo available under a Creative Commons license!

Here’s a list of departments along with any special holiday hours for Thursday July 1st, 2010:

Department	Hours
Technical Support	Regular hours
Payments	Closed
Compliance	Closed

We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday!

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Holiday Hours: Victoria Day (May 24)

By Taylor Biggin on May 21st, 2010
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Happy Victoria Day from the OpenSRS team! We’ll be closed this Monday May 24th for a long weekend.

Our Technical Support team continues to be available 24/7 to assist you.

Please note that during this closure, there will be:

No orders or requests processed for the following TLD’s: (.at, .fr, .ch, .li, .it, .dk, .com.mx)
No special processing for .ca (registrant transfers, conflicting and municipal registrations) or .eu/.be (redemptions).

Here are the hours by department:

Technical Support - Regular hours

Payments - Email support: payments@opensrs.org

Compliance – Closed May 24th (Monday)

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Thanks a Million, Ten Million!

By Ben Lucier on March 30th, 2010
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Boy do we have some news: Earlier today, we officially announced that OpenSRS now has ten million domain names under management!

Having been with OpenSRS for just over two months, I have witnessed firsthand how quickly time flies when you’re having fun. My colleagues and the various teams have been so focused on the many internal projects that we nearly missed celebrating this very important milestone!

It’s a day like today that makes everything we do worthwhile.

We wish there was a way to get each of our ten thousand resellers in one big room so we could thank you in person. Unfortunately, we’re lacking the teleportation technology (our flux capacitor burnt out some time ago) and so we hope you will accept this blog post as our sincerest, most heartfelt thanks for helping us reach this important milestone.

The feedback received and the numerous conversations we’ve had with you have enabled us to build a wholesale domain name management platform that helps you to run your hosting and Internet business more efficiently and with confidence.

Although we’re proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish, we wake up each day with a goal to make it even better.

Ten million domain names isn’t the finish line for us. It’s an important milestone to be sure, but it’s just a pit stop on our way to being the wholesale domain name registrar you can count on, because we’re not slowing down for anything!

Thank you for your trusting us with your business.

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