Blog Articles
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 […]
Holiday hours for Canadian Thanksgiving- October 11
Monday, October 11th is Canadian Thanksgiving, which means that our headquarters in Toronto will be operating on holiday hours. Here’s a schedule showing which departments will be open: Here’s our hours by department for Monday, October 11th, 2010: Department Hours Technical Support Regular hours Payments Closed Compliance Closed Our normal hours will resume on […]
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 is a celebration held every September 22 with the goal of educating lovers of the Internet around the world about the importance of the open Internet. At OpenSRS, we put together a short video that asks the hypothetical question, “Without the Web, how would we…?” We had a lot of fun putting it together […]
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 […]
Win a full conference pass to Web 2.0 New York
The OpenSRS team is gearing up for the Web 2.0 Expo New York, and we’d like you to join us! We’re going to give away two full conference passes (valued at $1745 each) to the folks who come up with the best captions for the photo below. Like our last photo caption contest, there will […]
Enter our service guy postcard contest and become famous!
We recently decided that we ought to have some nice postcards to send to our resellers, but the problem is that we don’t have enough designs for them. In the spirit of community, we thought we’d reach out to you, our resellers, and ask for your help in exchange for the opportunity for your creativity […]
The OpenSRS quarterly for 2010-Q2 is now available
After the positive feedback we received from our first-quarter report, we’re excited to announce that our OpenSRS Quarterly for 2010-Q2 is now available for download. Have you found yourself wondering how your own performance indicators measure up against other OpenSRS resellers? Key performance metrics like renewal rates by quarter, new registrations and transfers in and […]
