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Leap day domain registrations explained
Tomorrow is a leap day – February 29 – an extra day that shows up in February ever four years (well, sort of. Years that are evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years). That has some implications for domain […]
Holiday hours for Family Day, Monday February 20
Our Toronto office will be closed on Monday, February 20, 2012, for the Province of Ontario’s Family Day holiday. Family day is a fairly new holiday in Ontario – we first celebrated it in 2008. It’s designed to give us all a break in February, and a day off work and school to spend time […]
Hosting trends for 2012 – free webinar
NOTE: If you missed the live webinar, we now have a recording available for viewing at any time. Click here to view. Staying on top of where the hosting industry is headed is key in ensuring that you are able to react quickly and be successful. Arming you with great information about the current state […]
Help and advice on implementing new ccTLDs from OpenSRS
Last week we hosted a webinar for resellers to get up to speed on the expansion of our ccTLD lineup that we did in December. If you missed the news about that launch, you can check out this post from Adam Eisner – we added dozens and dozens of new ccTLDs to the list of […]
Being your customers’ trusted provider
Your customers choose you for a variety of reasons – maybe it’s a higher level of customer support or specific high quality services that you offer. Maybe it’s because they know and trust you or because you are a part of their local community. There is a real opportunity to be the trusted provider for […]
Take advantage of .ME’s momentum
.ME is on a roll lately. More and more .ME domains are being registered and used around the Internet, including some very high-profile and very visible sites. There are now more than 550,000 .ME domains registered, and hundreds of .ME domains are found on the Alexa Top 100,000 Sites list. With stats like that, it’s […]
Holiday hours for Canadian Thanksgiving, October 10
Monday, October 10th, 2011 is Canadian Thanksgiving, which means that our headquarters in Toronto will be operating on holiday hours. Typical Canadians – Always trying to be different For trivia buffs, there’s a really good reason why Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October while Americans wait until November (and no, it’s not because we’ll be snowed […]
Holiday hours: Labour Day, September 6, 2011
Next Monday, September 6, 2011, is Labour Day here in Canada (aka Labor Day if you are in the USA) and that means some special hours for a few departments here at OpenSRS. First, the official business: Our Technical support team continues to be available 24/7 to assist you. Please note that during this closure, […]
Wake up to .XXX sunrise
The folks at ICM Registry who run the new .XXX domain extension have put together a really nice video that helps explain why you and your customers should be paying attention to the launch of .XXX. The video is embedded below (and you should feel free to embed it in your own site or blog […]
Help your customers find the perfect domain
Are you missing out on sales by not helping your customers find the perfect domain name? Offering Premium Domains from OpenSRS is one great way to help customer find the right name, and complete the sale. Implementing Premium Names is easier than you might think. Here’s a couple of different ways to get started with […]