Tucows acquires wholesale domain registrar Ascio Technologies
Earlier this morning, our parent company, Tucows Inc. released some exciting news: we’ve officially acquired Ascio Technologies, another wholesale domain registrar that, like OpenSRS, is dedicated to supporting a … Continue Reading
Intermittent degraded performance resolved
Last night we experienced a sequence of events that led to intermittent degraded performance across many OpenSRS services. At 1 AM UTC we were the target of a sophisticated DNS … Continue Reading
Tucows to acquire Enom from Rightside
We issued a press release today announcing that Tucows has agreed to acquire eNom from Rightside.
By bringing together OpenSRS and eNom under one roof, we are definitively forming the largest … Continue Reading
Tucows acquires Melbourne IT’s international wholesale domain reseller channel
Tucows Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the international wholesale domain reseller channel of Melbourne IT Limited. The acquisition will add hundreds of resellers … Continue Reading
Security update
**This post was updated on August 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM EST.**
On August 4, 2015 our security team identified and stopped unauthorized access to one of our systems. As … Continue Reading
How do we choose what new gTLDs to support?
You have probably noticed an increased amount of activity and communication around the new gTLDs coming to market through OpenSRS. We are all very excited about the possibilities that the new TLDs bring but … Continue Reading
Registry cost increases for .BIZ and .ORG domains coming April 1, 2011
It’s an unfortunate part of being a domain registrar that we have to let you know about price increases coming up as a result of announced increases by the registries … Continue Reading
The reseller-friendly approach to ccTLDs
I’ve written several posts over the past few months about the reseller-friendly choices we’ve made in our products, our pricing and our policies.
ccTLDs provides another great example.
There are … Continue Reading
Welcome Thorsten Einig, OpenSRS’ new Managing Director, Europe
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Thorsten Einig to the OpenSRS team as our new Managing Director, Europe. Thorsten brings a wealth of experience in the hosting and internet … Continue Reading
Refunds for misspelled domain names because that’s how we roll
As human beings, we all make mistakes, some are bigger than others. But when it comes to misspelling a domain name, should your end users be stuck with anything other … Continue Reading