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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 latest edition of the bi-annual .org domain name report, “The Dashboard,” is now available. Public Internet Registry (PIR), the operator of the .org domain extension released the report, which showed 7.6% growth in the .org domain in the first half of 2010. That’s twice the growth compared to 2009 and signals continued strength in […]
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 artículo 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 […]
6 ways for web hosts to stand out in a saturated market
Look around the web hosting industry and you’ll run into multiple similar-looking websites offering similar packages with similar costs. So how is a webhost supposed to stand out amongst the crowd and attract new customers? To help out, we’re presenting a webinar on August 26th, 2010. Adam Eisner, who heads up our domains business here […]
New lower Price for .TV domains and a .TV promo
Good news! Starting August 4th, 2010, we’re dropping the price for new .TV domains to just $19/domain year. That new price applies to all resellers and will be in effect through May 31, 2011. But wait, there’s more Better news! Not only are we lowering our wholesale price, but we’re also rolling out a .TV […]