Blog Articles
Help & support portal updates
With the new OpenSRS Help & Support Portal now fully up and running for a few months now, I thought it would be good to show you some of the places where we are sharing important information. Announcements Upcoming Maintenance: we’ll post things like registry maintenance announcements and planned OpenSRS maintenance here. We’ll continue to […]
Holiday hours for Family Day, Monday, February 18, 2013
Our Toronto office will be closed on Monday, February 18th, 2013, for the annual Family Day holiday here in Ontario. This is a mid-winter holiday celebrated in most Canadian Provinces. The idea is to give people a long weekend break in February, and a day off work and school to spend time doing stuff as […]
New gTLDs and OpenSRS
By now you’ve heard about the new gTLD program in the works at ICANN; concerning the text right of the dot. It has been in the works for quite a while now and looks like it will be another year or two before all the dust settles on the initial 2,000+ applications. So far we […]
Which site seal do people trust the most? (2013 survey results)
We just found some interesting third-party research from the Baymard Institute regarding consumer’s perceptions of SSL and Trust seals. The survey, from January 2013, specifically focused on e-commerce websites and gave the following results, showing Trust seals outpacing all of the SSL seals with the exception of Norton. It is an interesting article and I […]
The Channel Partners Conference & Expo
We are checking out a new industry show this year that we think could be relevant to a lot of you. The Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas at The Venetian & Sands Expo Feb. 27-March 1. It looks similar to the hosting conferences where we tend to meet many of you. Companies […]
Ting offers: Updated for BYOSD
Great news! We’ve updated the backend of Ting Offers to now include customers who bring their own Sprint device to Ting; including phones purchased through Glyde. Previously customers who chose those options didn’t receive an account credit and the resellers who referred them didn’t receive credit for the account. As of Monday, we’ve updated the […]
The platform: Key to the toasting sector’s future
Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series of guest posts by Phil Shih, founder of Structure Research. The hosting business is young and has a bright future ahead of it. But the market is getting tougher and big names like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are circling the sector. What can hosters do to […]
Beware of DNS services "invoices"
A company by the name of DNS Services Corporation is apparently sending out letters to domain registrants that look very much like an invoice for DNS services. They are likely scraping public WHOIS records to get the names and addresses of registrants to do this. Like the Domain Registry of America (DROA) and Domain Registry […]
Q1 2013 domain promotions
2013 is here, and that means new domain promotions to tell you about. We’re streamlining our promotions program this year to make things easier for you. We’ll be announcing promotions quarterly, and each promotion will usually run the duration of that quarter. We’ll do our best to get the word out about upcoming promotions a […]
A review of 2012 at OpenSRS
It has been a busy year at OpenSRS, so I thought I’d take the time to look back at some of the highlights. ccTLDs We bought epag in 2011, helping us add over 100 new second and third-level extensions to our portfolio. But doing so took plenty of development and time incorporating them into OpenSRS, making […]
