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Meet the resellers: (mt) media temple
They are often considered to be a tough bunch to please, but OpenSRS Reseller (mt) Media Temple has built an extremely successful hosting business by catering to the specific needs of web designers and taking a customer-centric approach to everything they do. Those often tough-to-please designers demand a hosting provider that they can trust to […]
Web 2.0 Expo NYC conference pass winners announced
Thanks to all who entered our caption contest for a pair of passes to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York later this month. We got together yesterday at the office and went over the entries to pick the best two. The happy recipients of a full conference pass to Web 2.0 Expo NYC are […]
.MOBI renewal season
Every year, around the end of September and early October, a greater percentage of .mobi domain names come up for renewal. That’s because the .mobi domain extension launched beginning in September 2006 with a land rush on September 22nd, and general availability on October 11, 2006. Many people who bought their .mobi domain names around […]
Meet the resellers: DiscountASP.NET
Carving out a niche, then staying focused has been the key to success for web host and OpenSRS Reseller, DiscountASP.NET. That singularly focused approach meshed perfectly with OpenSRS and its consistent commitment to the wholesale Internet services market. The Pasadena, California-based webhost started out in 2003 as a shared hosting provider with a twist, offering […]
$179 GeoTrust EV SSL sale price is the new regular price
The GeoTrust EV SSL sale comes to an end today, but we’ve decided to make the lower price permanent. That means going forward, GeoTrust True BusinessID with Extended Validation (EV) will be $179 for one year, and $359 for two years (in US dollars). A complete price list for SSL products available to be sold […]
Educating customers and boosting sales
It’s sometimes easy to forget that domain names aren’t something that the average person is familiar with. Working in the hosting or Internet industry, understanding how different domain extensions work is just part of daily life. For those familiar with how domains are bought and sold, the concept of premium domain names and the domain […]
GeoTrust is the SSL brand of choice for the top million sites online
A recent survey of SSL certificate use by Netcraft, referenced against the top million sites online (as tallied by Alexa), revealed that GeoTrust SSL certificates continue to be the most widely used choice of the one million top websites on the Internet. The comparison looked at the Alexa 1 Million and counted publically facing SSL […]
.ORG surpasses 8.5 million domains
 The Public Internet Registry (PIR), the operator of the .org domain extension, announced in its January to June 2010 edition of “The Dashboard” that .org has surpassed 8.5 million domain registrations. The report highlighted a 7.6% growth in .org domains during the first half of 2010, doubling the growth rate of 2009. This strong […]
Four million .nl domains
This week the total number of .nl domain names in existence hit the four million mark for the first time, according to SIDN, the .nl Registry. That puts .nl in fourth place in terms of ccTLDs for total registrations behind .de, .uk and .cn. Curiously, .nl actually leads all ccTLDs when you look at total […]
Meet the resellers: Xpress Hosting
Este artÃculo está disponible en español a continuación. Mexico-based webhost Xpress Hosting has used a customer-centric approach to doing business to become the leading webhost in the region. It was only natural then, for Xpress Hosting to seek out a wholesale Registrar with the same focus on the customer. Xpress Hosting began working with OpenSRS […]
