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August 2011・Announcements

HostingCon 2011 starts today

HostingCon 2011 kicks off today and it promises to be a very busy and exciting week. OpenSRS has a big presence at HostingCon as usual and we’re going to make sure that whether you are in San Diego this week, or anywhere else in the world, that you know what’s going on. Here’s just a […]

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August 2011・Announcements, Domain Names

.XXX launches in September at OpenSRS

The new .XXX Sponsored Top-level Domain extension launches on September 7, 2011, and OpenSRS will be fully participating in the launch from Sunrise through General Availability and beyond. There are a couple of different elements to the launch and depending on your customer base, you’ll want to take note of the different requirements in each […]

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July 2011・Announcements

Sell Trustwave SSL and win an iPad 2!

Between August 1, 2011, and September 30, 2011, we’re giving our Resellers a chance to win an iPad 2 and some other great prizes as part of a fantastic Trustwave SSL Incentive Program. Here’s how the Incentive Program works: Sell at least one Trustwave-branded SSL certificate during August or September, and you’ll automatically receive an […]

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OpenSRS email now offers 5GB standard

Starting today we’re upgrading all OpenSRS Email Service mailboxes to 5GB of storage at no additional cost. There are two phases to the upgrade: Effective today, new accounts you provision will automatically have 5GB of storage. For existing accounts, beginning today, we’re going to start upgrading them from 2GB of storage to 5GB of storage. […]

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June 2011・Announcements

Decommissioning the older OpenSRS SSL service

Late last year we rolled out the OpenSRS Trust Service which is meant to replace the existing older SSL Service. At the time we said that we would be migrating existing SSL certificate orders to this new Trust Service sometime in the future and that we planned to eventually decommission the older SSL Service. Today […]

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.INFO cost increase, plus a .INFO promotion

On July 1st, 2011, Afilias is raising the cost for .INFO domain names by $0.67 to $7.42 (all costs listed are in US dollars). Here’s the Afilias letter to ICANN [PDF] We have a cost-plus pricing model for our generic top-level domains (gTLDs) at OpenSRS. That means we break out the cost of gTLDs to […]

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Numeric and short .TEL domains now available

Starting today, June 14, 2011, the .TEL Registry has begun to allow certain numeric-only and also some two-digit, short .TEL domain registrations. OpenSRS is ready to support these new .TEL domain variants and they are available to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis at standard .TEL pricing of $8.00 plus ICANN Fee ($0.18) and your […]

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June 2011・Industry Insight

One million .CO domains

Congratulations to .CO Internet on reaching 1 million .CO domains under management! It was less than a year ago, on July 20th, 2010, that .CO launched globally and OpenSRS was on board as one of 10 .CO-accredited registrars. Thanks to our resellers, who saw the opportunity that .CO provided, we’ve played an important role in […]

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CIRA 2011 Board of Director Nominations

CIRA’s Nomination Committee is seeking interested individuals from across Canada to apply to fill three open positions for the Nomination Committee Slate of CIRA’s Board of Directors Election. Professional Canadians with Board experience and/or an interest in technology and the Internet are encouraged to apply. Expertise in one of the following areas would be an […]

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