Blog Articles
October means savings on .CA and .ORG domains
Can you believe that October is here already? Summer in Canada, home to OpenSRS HQ, is pretty much over and thoughts have turned to getting ready for another winter. But on the bright side, the change of season also means a pair of new domain promotions to tell you about. First up is a great […]
Rethinking SSL marketing
I’ve talked in the past about starting the sales process for SSL certificates “upstream” – that is, offering the appropriate certificate to your customer after assessing their needs, rather than immediately going to a lower cost domain validated certificate. You can have a look at that post if you missed it, but the basic premise […]
On-demand webinar: hosting industry market overview (mid-2012)
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a webinar for our resellers with Phil Shih from Structure Research. He gave his “state of the hosting industry” presentation and got us all up to date on the trends that are shaping the industry as we pass the mid-point of 2012. Like all of our webinars, […]
Free webinar with Phil Shih from Structure Research
I’ll be hosting a free webinar this Thursday, August 9 at 11:00 A.M. (EDT) with Phil Shih from Structure Research. If you weren’t at this year’s HostingCon conference in Boston, then this is a great opportunity to get informed and educated about the state of the hosting industry as we move through the second half […]
Holiday hours for the civic holiday, August 6, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012, marks the second long weekend of summer here in Ontario, Canada where the OpenSRS offices are located. In some parts of Canada, the first Monday in August is known as the Civic Holiday. However, in beautiful Toronto, we celebrate the Civic Holiday as Simcoe Day, in honour of John Graves Simcoe, […]
Why business customers should use organization validated SSL certificates
Of the three types of SSL certificate validation, which one do you understand the least? I’m willing to bet it’s organization validation (OV). For the uninitiated, there are different validation methods for different types of SSL certificates. In simple terms: Domain Validated (DV): This is the least rigorous validation method. The Certificate Authority (CA) checks […]
On-demand webinar: tapping into mobile trends with goMobi
If you missed the webinar I hosted last week with Chris Campbell of goMobi, it’s now up and ready for on-demand viewing. Chris did a great job presenting some super stats about the state of the mobile web in 2012 and about how goMobi provides an ideal solution for both resellers like you and your […]
Free webinar: tapping into mobile trends with goMobi
Mobile Internet usage continues to grow and your customers are likely looking to you for ways to ensure that their websites are mobile-ready. On June 14, 2012, I’ll be hosting a free webinar with Chris Campbell, Director of Business Development, Afilias (the people behind the .MOBI domain extension and our goMobi mobile website solution). Chris […]
On-demand webinar – Ting and OpenSRS offers
Last week I teamed up with Scott Allan, Director at Ting, to host a webinar to talk about the addition of Ting to our OpenSRS Offers service. For those who aren’t aware, Ting is a new mobile phone service that Tucows launched in the US earlier this year. Through OpenSRS Offers, we’re providing our Resellers […]
WHD.global session notes – "hosting after Megaupload.com: risks, opportunities and chances"
Many of us OpenSRSers are in Rust, Germany this week for the WHD.global show. To give you a flavour of what this conference is all about, I’ve attended a few sessions and will provide some notes here. Today I took in a very interesting session at WHD.global talking about the recent Megaupload case and the […]
