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HostingCon 2010 is coming up!

By Taylor Biggin on May 19th, 2010
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Service Guy at HostingCon 2009

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a full year since HostingCon 2009, but HostingCon 2010 is only two months away, and the early-bird registration is now open! If you’re not familiar with it, HostingCon is the largest gathering of hosting professionals in the world. This year it’s in Austin, Texas, and OpenSRS will be exhibiting there! Director of Domain Services Adam Eisner will also be presenting a session titled “The Untapped Growth Opportunities in Web Hosting“.

For more information about this event, visit our events page. You can also register for HostingCon 2010 here, and if you use the early-bird code OpenSRS2010 during registration, you’ll save up to $60! This code expires May 31, so hurry!

Hope to see you there!

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Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Wrap-Up

By Taylor Biggin on May 14th, 2010
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Last week some of the OpenSRS team headed out to San Francisco to attend the Web 2.0 Expo. This was a new experience for OpenSRS – it was our first time sponsoring this show, and we were able to meet a lot of new folks in the social media space. It was great to converse with people who hadn’t considered (or hadn’t explored fully) adding domain sales to their business.  It was fun to introduce ourselves, and explain what we do at OpenSRS.

When we weren’t at the booth talking to the large crowds of people in the exhibition hall, we dropped into some of the great sessions going on at the Expo. Between the four different ‘tracks’: Design & User Experience, Social Media Marketing, Strategy & Business Models, and Development, there was a wealth of knowledge, and something for everyone. There were also some influential keynote speakers from companies such as I Can Has Cheezburger, Smule, and TED Conferences.

My Name is URL

Q&A with Ken after his session
The Web 2.0 Expo was also exciting for us because in our sponsored session Ken Schafer, EVP Products for OpenSRS, presented for the first time “My Name is URL – Namespaces & Revenue Models”. This presentation looked at the importance of namespaces as online identities, and encouraged Web 2.0 companies to consider unique and meaningful namespaces as an innovative way to enhance user experience and increase revenue. This session was so well-received that we are repeating it in an upcoming webinar on May 27th! We’d love to have you join us if you missed our presentation or wanted to invite some of your other team members.

Our OpenSRS Service Guy also made an appearance – he was the hottest swag giveaway of the show! There are some pictures of him on Flickr, and we expect many more to pop up over the next while as the attendees post their photos.

So we’d like to thank everyone that we met at the Expo, as well as everyone that was involved in helping make Web 2.0 Expo a great success for us. We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!

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Drumbeat building an Open Web

By OpenSRS Team on April 27th, 2010
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Mozilla Foundation’s Drumbeat is gaining momentum. Drumbeat.org aims to use Mozilla’s experiences (open source community development and hacker ethic) to support and develop the Web. Their most recent event was held this past weekend was well attended by all different kinds of people from seasoned Internet veterans to average people with a passion for the Internet and the Web.

Drumbeat is a movement combining projects and events focused on making the web better, using open-source DNA and Know-How and focusing on “maker culture” and “building”.  Their goal is to engage a wider global audience in the active discussion and participation building an open web. The One Web Day team recently joined forces with Mozilla Drumbeat and at OpenSRS, we’re huge supporters of their initiatives and happy to carry over our support to Mozilla Drumbeat. If you’re interested in the Open Web, you’ll want to consider getting involved.

My OpenSRS colleagues and our resellers are often early adopters and proponents of all things Internet. We are the ambassadors who can engage others in our careers, families and neighbourhoods. A Tucows core values is “the Internet is the greatest agent for positive change the world has ever seen”. Drumbeat is built on that vision too. Will the web still be open in 100 years? What is your vision of the Internet? How can you help build it? In true Mozilla fashion, the brainstorm of “What is the open Web” can be found on their wiki.

About Drumbeat

Anyone can volunteer or suggest a Drumbeat project. Two projects that might be of interest to Resellers are P2PU: creating an Open Web Developer Degree and Web Made Movies: a video series highlighting people who are building an open, participatory Internet.

To spread the word about Drumbeat projects and build the open web movement, Drumbeat includes events across the world. Previous events were held in Rio and San Paulo, Brazil. At the recent Toronto event, the day included small scrum-like discussions on how to explain the open web to diverse audiences and topical discussions ranging from open source activism to MESH networks to HTML5 Video Players to building the Drumbeat.org community.

Drumbeat Toronto, April 24, 2010. Photo by Rokashi

How can you get involved?

Drumbeat projects are open for collaboration. Simply hop onto the Drumbeat site, join Drumbeat mailing lists, or read/subscribe to the Drumbeat newsletter. The next Drumbeat event is in Berlin on May 8, 2010. To attend, you can sign up for free here.

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Thanks for entering our W2E Photo Contest!

By Taylor Biggin on April 13th, 2010
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Thanks to everyone who participated in our Web 2.0 Expo photo contest on Twitter! We really enjoyed reading your captions, and there were some great entries. Congratulations to our two winners, who will be enjoying a Full Pass to the Expo and a free domain name:

@DavidTouchette: Local Sunrise applications for .MOON will be awarded to Martians with valid trademarks only.


@webwgt: The .co era is coming, the .moon era is next


Honourable mentions

Because there were so many other great ones, we’ve put together a list of “honourable mentions”. We really liked these:

  • @panicmanual: In space, nobody can hear you register a domain
  • @kellie: To .infinity and beyond!
  • @smichm: Anything is possible when your man smells like the service guy. I’m on the moon
  • @obaumer: Domains don’t have to be rocket science
  • @stevecomrie: Registering domain names and faking moon landings since January 2000

You can still attend!

Just because the contest is over doesn’t mean you can’t come to the Expo – don’t forget, you can still register for a free Expo Hall Pass using the code websf10coe at the Web 2.0 Expo registration site. Again, thank you all for entering our contest, and keep an eye out for more in the future!

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Win a Full Conference Pass to Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco!

By Taylor Biggin on April 1st, 2010
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Our team is getting ready to exhibit at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco (May 3-6) and we’d like you to join us there! We have two full conference passes that we’d like to give away to the folks with the two best captions for the photo below.

These passes are normally priced at $1745 each, but we’re giving them away for free! The Web 2.0 Expo is a multi-track conference bringing together people, ideas, and companies to foster stronger Web 2.0 communities. As well, our very own Ken Schafer will be speaking at the conference about “My Name Is URL – Namespaces & Revenue Models“.

With a Full Pass, you’ll get access to:

  • The Expo Hall and all events there
  • All sessions and keynote speakers
  • Any of the workshops on Monday, May 3
  • All networking events
  • Lunches
  • Web2Open
  • Birds of a Feather networking sessions
  • All sorts of cool swag

Here’s how you could win:

  1. Think up a really witty/sentimental/unique caption for the photo above (hint: Our mascot the Service Guy is in it)
  2. Tweet your caption to @OpenSRS, along with the hashtag #w2e. The best two captions will win.
  3. We’ll announce the winners on April 9 on Twitter, as well as notify them directly via direct message.

We do have just a few guidelines:

  • Keep it clean, please
  • Anyone can enter
  • You can enter as many times as you like
  • Remember to use the hashtag in your entry
  • The winners must register with their codes before April 19, 2010
  • You can view the full terms and conditions here

Just interested in dropping by the exhibition hall (and seeing the keynotes) at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco?  Visit our events page for a free expo only pass registration code.  If you go, please drop by our booth (#527) to say hi.

Good luck!

Update: We’ve already received a lot of great entries! You can see them using this Twitter search. May the best caption win!

Update: Elliot Noss (@enoss) has just announced that he will be giving the winners a free domain name!

This contest is now closed – view the winning entries here!

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