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Reseller Control Panel sneak preview
Be careful! This is no ordinary blog post. You’re going to need some headphones with the volume turned way up and you’re going to want to be sitting down before you look at what we have to show you. This is a post about our control panels. People say they’re ugly. This hurt our feelings […]
International Pi Day Celebration: no squares allowed!
Just a reminder folks that March 14th is fast approaching. Do you have plans to celebrate? We’re not talking about Einstein’s birthday (although I bet he’d be happy to know you remembered). We’re talking about International Pi Day, which happens every March 14 (3.14, get it?) Pi Day has been celebrated by math enthusiasts and other […]
StopBadware: Request for comments part II
A short while ago, I wrote about our friends at StopBadware and their initiative to draft a document that covers best practices when dealing with malware of all kinds. The support received been fantastic and they’re now on the second draft of the RFC. This is an important issue that affects all of us. If […]
How to videos: registration, DNS, Storefront, account funding now online
These How-To videos were captured during our “New Reseller Interactive Screencasts” we ran last year. They were a great opportunity to connect with new resellers in a live, interactive video format. I thought it made sense to publish these as is, since they serve as a fairly thorough walkthrough of the OpenSRS Reseller Web Interface […]
Help eliminate malware: public request for comments
The Internet can be a dangerous place, even for the professionals who live and breath it. Imagine the frustration felt by website owners after realizing their site has been compromised and attempts to infect its visitors, many of them potential customers. StopBadware, a non-profit organization, founded at Harvard University in 2006, helps stop badware: viruses, […]
Contact Privacy video now available for download
Internet privacy is a big deal these days. Privacy breaches at various sites have exposed sensitive data like home addresses, phone numbers, email, and more. But for domain name owners, there’s another easily preventable privacy pitfall out there that could cause just as much headache as a major social networking site leaking their personal data. […]
Tips for selling and packaging goMobi to your clients
Many of the resellers we’ve spoken to agree that goMobi is a perfect complement to existing webhosting packages. Over the past couple of weeks, we had some fairly in depth discussions with interested resellers around how they might package and price the goMobi service. I wanted to share some of these learnings with you in this […]
Start the new year by telling us what you think
It’s that time again. The time when we ask you to tell us what you really think. Last year we started asking our resellers to participate in our Reseller Satisfaction Survey. It’s a really quick survey that poses an important question: “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague.“ Each quarter […]
Happy Birthday Creative Commons
Last week Creative Commons celebrated its 10th birthday. To help celebrate, Tucows issued a challenge to Creative Commons donors: do what you can to donate to the Creative Commons cause, and we’ll match contributions up to a total of $10,000. At Tucows, we strongly believe that openness drives innovation. For those of you not familiar with the […]
Annual report now available for the .INFO top-level domain
The annual report for .INFO was released today and for anybody interested in .INFO, or domain names in general should find it an interesting read. The report shows that in 2010, the top-level domain (TLD) grew nearly 30% to more than 6.8 million domain names registered, holding it in place as the #1 new TLD […]
