Blog Articles
Happy Thanksgiving
Just a quick note to say Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends south of the border! Unfortunately for us, we’re stuck here at the office, toiling away, as you sit down with your families to enjoy your delicious turkey ‘n gravy, homemade stuffing and mashed potatoes. Mmmmm. On the plus side, thanks to the power […]
The OpenSRS Quarterly for Q3 is now available
We’re excited to announce that our OpenSRS Quarterly for 2010-Q3 is now available for download. Have you found yourself wondering how your own own performance indicators measure up against other OpenSRS resellers? Key performance metrics like renewal rates by quarter, new registrations and transfers in and out have long been providing valuable insight to service […]
goMobi available soon to OpenSRS resellers
You’ve probably heard about goMobi service that was recently launched by the dotMobi registry. This wicked cool service turns any standard website into an easy to use, fully customizable mobile site with no programming required. Better still, the service is optimized for many of today’s popular mobile devices. We’re excited about having this available to […]
Have your registrar accreditation and eat it too
You may have heard the News Last Week that Automattic, the company behind WordPress (and other cool services) has become its own accredited registrar and it got me thinking that it’s been a while since we’ve talked about our own Registrar Service. We have all different kinds of wholesale, or white label, clients selling domain […]
Meet the Resellers: Softcom
Through its myhosting.com and mail2web.com brands, Softcom, an OpenSRS Reseller since 2000, has established itself as a leading provider of web hosting and business communication services to small business and small to mid-sized enterprises in 140 countries around the world. In addition to web hosting, Softcom provides messaging and collaboration services to more than 25,000 […]
A new and improved .CA registry now with EPP compliance
Earlier this morning, the team over at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has confirmed a successful 24 hour maintenance with an upgrade that brings the .CA Registry to full EPP compliance. We’re still doing some post maintenance diligence on our end but in the meantime, order provisioning of .CA domains has been re-enabled as […]
CIRA 2010 symposium and AGM
The Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA), the governing body that maintains the dotCA domain registry held its annual general meeting and Symposium in Toronto this week. CIRA’s President, Byron Holland described the relentless change on the Internet, year after year and the impossibility to predict that change. CIRA operates in a 100% uptime environment and […]
A world without the web: celebrating OneWebDay 2010
OneWebDay.org The success and popularity of the Internet is owed to the ideals promoted by OneWebDay: Why the world needs an open Internet. With a closed Internet, you can forget about hearing stories about innovation. Remember the two guys who started a search company in their dorm and turned the enterprise into a billion-dollar company? Wouldn’t […]
How we put on a live how-to interactive broadcast to welcome new resellers
Last week we ran our very first interactive screencast with the goal of helping our new resellers learn the basics of the OpenSRS and our control panel interface. Pulling off a live video screencast, with multiple components was challenging and took some time to figure out. With the right tools and services though, I was […]
Join us at the Parallels EMEA Partner Forum 2010
We are delighted to be once again sponsoring the Parallels EMEA Partner Forum after a very successful and fun show last year. We are hoping you can join us this year. Ben Reuss, our Business Development Manager (EMEA) will be in each city and looks forward to greeting you. The Parallels EMEA Partner Forum takes […]
