We have some great news to help you wrap up 2009 and kick off 2010 with a bang: Starting December 1st, and continuing through the end of March, 2010, .ME domains are just $4.99 at OpenSRS! That’s 75% off the regular price.
Make sure you sign up
As with most OpenSRS promotions, you’ll need to signup to take advantage of the savings and you’ll receive the discount in the form of a rebate, deposited into your OpenSRS Reseller account in the following month. The promotional price applies to new one-year registrations or the first year of new, multi-year registrations only. Renewals, transfers and any domains sold through OpenSRS Storefront are not eligible.
Click here to sign up for the .ME promo and while you’re there, make sure you sign up for our other promotions underway right now including .TV, .INFO and .IN domain names.
Got .INFO? Starting today and continuing until year end, Afilias and OpenSRS are offering you a great new promotion. .INFO domains will be sold at the Registry cost of $0.00, meaning you only pay your OpenSRS Management fee and the ICANN fee for any .INFO domain names you sell during the promo period. (You save $6.75 per domain and pay $3.18.)
Why .INFO?
Earlier this year, we talked all about why .INFO is a great gTLD. Check out the .INFO resources available for you and your customer in that same post.
How to Sign up:
The promotion applies to new, one-year registrations or the first year of new, multi-year registrations only. Transfers and renewals are not eligible. The discount is paid in the form of a rebate to your Reseller account within 10 days of the start of the subsequent month.
To take advantage of this promotional pricing, you will need to Sign up here.
Editor’s note: OpenSRS offers 25 different top-level domains (TLDs) for our resellers. This is the third post in a series intended to share information about the wide range of TLDs and to introduce you to some of the available resources that the various Registries provide.
As a ccTLD (country code top level domain), .US brands itself as “America’s Internet Address.” It has existed since 1985 and was originally used primarily by governmental organizations and libraries. In 2002, it was made available to the general public. Any US citizen or resident, as well as any business or organization, including federal, state, and local government with a presence in the United States can register a .US domain name. Neustar is the registry operator for a number of TLDs including .US. We will be doing separate posts for each one.
Uses range from personal email addresses to government organizations to American businesses. One of the unique examples is for the Neustar-driven approval for children’s web content. This is a designation for websites appropriate for kids under 13 such as nick.kids.us (games for kids from the Nickelodeon television network) or americaslibrary.kids.us (presented by the US Library of Congress). The community site WeAre.Us has an innovative and helpful domain focusing on the “us” factor. Many businesses also find their Internet home in a .US domain name including social media/public relations site bub.blicio.us or cabinetmakers CampbellDesign.us or technology firm Bose at Bose.us. Zipcodes are also popular. These pages are parked, but are still valuable Internet real estate: www.20166.us or www.90210.us.
Neustar launched a social media marketing program in January 2009 to increase .US brand recognition. This includes a banner ad campaign that has generated clickthrough rates up to seven times the industry average. They also created a Facebook application for .US. They provide businesses and personal .US users with social media news and other great resources.
.US Quick Facts
- There are 1.4 million .US domain names under management.
- Neustar is the registry operator.
- Most of the .US domains (87%) are registered and used in the United States, followed by Canada and then Europe.
- .US purchasers are predominately male (84%) between the ages of 35 – 64 years old and use the domain for both business and personal reasons.
Available Resources:
Registries offer a wide range of resources for Resellers. Here are some of the key links you can use to learn more about .US:
.US Promotion:
Our .US promotion started on June 1st and continues until July 31, 2009. There’s more information on the promotion page.
Editor’s note: OpenSRS offers 25 different top-level domains (TLDs) for our resellers. This is the second post in a series intended to share information about the wide range of TLDs and to introduce you to some of the available resources that the various Registries provide.
Probably the most familiar .ORG domain on the web today is wikipedia.org. This gTLD was created in 1984 as one of the Internet’s original top-level domains, and has wide-ranging use including open source projects (drupal.org), sports groups (www.specialolympics.org), advocacy (www.kiva.org) and causes (www.cbcf.org). As the third largest gTLD, it is used worldwide, connecting smaller pockets of communities and giving them collective global reach. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .ORG registry operator since 2003, has embraced social media to support organizations in a wide variety of ways including their YouTube Channel and World Voices events program. Your customers will find all types of videos highlighting the various uses of .ORG. Check out the video below.
.ORG Quick Facts
- There are more than 7 million .ORG domains around the world.
- It is the third largest gTLD behind .COM and .NET.
- PIR (Public Interest Registry) is the registry operator.
- Anyone can buy this gTLD.
- They were the official sponsor for the 13th Annual Webby Awards.
- PIR is actively promoting implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for their TLD and signed their zone on June 2, 2009.
The Many Uses of .ORG
Available Resources:
Registries offer a wide range of resources for Resellers. Here are some of the key links you can use to learn more about .ORG:
.ORG Promotion:
Our .ORG promotion started on June 1st and continues until July 31, 2009. There’s more information on the promotion page.
Starting on June 1st, and continuing through until the end of July, both .US and .ORG domain names are on sale!
- .US domains will be just $3 which is 70% off the usual price. This promo lines up perfectly with the 4th of July and the U.S. Independence Day celebrations. Take advantage and offer .US domains to your customers as a way to show their patriotism.
- .ORG domains will also be on sale at a Registry cost of $5.50. Remember that .ORG are sold under our cost-plus model, meaning you’ll need to add your management fee and the ICANN fee. The regular Registry cost for .ORG domains is $6.75.
You’ll need to sign up to receive the special pricing, and we also ask that you agree to some basic terms and conditions. Click for more details about these promos and our other ongoing promo campaigns.
Editor’s note: OpenSRS offers 25 different top-level domains (TLDs) for our resellers. This is the first post in a series intended to share information about the wide range of TLDs and to introduce you to some of the available resources that the various Registries provide.
The .INFO generic top-level domain was introduced in 2001 and has since grown to be one of the most widely used TLDs on the Internet. .INFO domains, as the extension would suggest, tend to be used mainly for websites where the primary goal is to provide information. You’ll find everything from travel information sites to government sites. Golf lovers can visit the home of the PGA while geeky-types can learn all about regular expressions online.
The .INFO Registry runs a directory of sites and anyone can submit their sites for inclusion in the listing.
.INFO Quick Facts
- Afilias is the Registry operator for .INFO.
- Anyone can buy a .INFO domain.
- There were approximately 5.2 million .INFO domains registered as of April 2008.
- .INFO is the fourth largest gTLD on the internet, after .com, .net and .org.
- The word ‘info’ means “information” in 37 languages.
- .INFO is the fastest growing new TLD to date.
Available Resources:
Registries offer a wide-range of resources for Resellers. Here are some of the key links you can use to learn more about .INFO:
.INFO Promotion:
.INFO has been one of our most popular TLDs and we continue to see strong growth. Our popular .INFO promotion has been running for quite some time now and continues through June 30, 2009. There’s more information about it at the .INFO promotion page.
I’m happy to tell you that the Registry promotions that we ran throughout 2008 with much success will be returning again in 2009. Last year we worked with various Registries to offer special pricing to OpenSRS Resellers including .INFO, .TV, .AT, .CN and more.
We’re doing things a little differently this year. We’re asking our Resellers to opt-in to each promotion. There are different requirements that need to be satisfied in order for us to offer special pricing, so we need to ensure that each Reseller has agreed to the terms of each promotion. We’ll also make any marketing materials or other resources available to you when you sign up.
The first promotion of the year is for .INFO domains. Just like last year, we’ve put together a great promotion with Affilias that allows us to offer you .INFO domains at a Registry cost of zero – yes, as in nothing. All you pay on .INFO domains is the ICANN fee of $0.20 and your OpenSRS Management Fee. You can opt-in to this promotion by filling out a quick and easy form. More details can be found here.
And, to commemorate US Presidential Inauguration Day, the .US Registry (Neustar) is offering a special promotion between now and the end of February, 2009 on .US domain names. Effective immediately, .US domain names will cost you five bucks instead of ten.
You can mark the occasion by offering your customers the chance to display their patriotism with a .US domain name.
Like the .INFO promo that is currently underway, you need to sign up to receive the promotional pricing. Click for more information about the terms and conditions of this promotion and to sign up to receive the special pricing.
We’re committed to passing on the savings to our Resellers and we hope you take advantage of these promotions by doing a little marketing and promotion of your own. These promotions continue to be a great way to drive sales among both existing and new customers.
Photo credit: Tim Parkinson – thanks for doing the Creative Commons thing!
The current .INFO Registry promotion has been extended right through to the end of the year. That means until the end of 2008, the Registry cost for .INFO domain names is zero. Full details can be found on our domains promotions page.
These promotions offer you a great way to stand out from the crowd and give you a chance to increase your domain and related services sales. You may wish to offer .INFO domains as an add-on during your current sign up procedure, or you can also target existing customers, suggesting that they may wish to add the .INFO equivalent to domain names that they already own.
