Over the past several years, we’ve watched many of our resellers branch out into new markets and regions very successfully. At the same time, we have also welcomed new resellers from a wide range of countries and industries. These trends have resulted in increased demand from our customers to offer more TLDs. Thus, we’re really […]
A short while ago, Michael wrote a plea from Marketing inviting our Resellers to tell us what they need from us that would help them be more successful. One of the requests was for us to craft some content around the positioning of free vs paid email accounts using domain names for end users. We […]
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 […]
How often have you spoken with somebody and you can just tell that they’re not paying attention to what you’re saying? Their eyes look away for only a second, but that’s all it takes for you to know they’re just waiting for you to stop talking so they can blurt out whatever it is they want […]
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: Share the news You don’t need to do anything – the upgrades will happen automatically, and without any downtime or interruption in service. Do enjoy the extra space and, by all […]
Today, we’re very happy to announce that we have rebuilt the OpenSRS status dashboard with superhero powers! Many of you are aware of the OpenSRS status dashboard. It’s our primary communications channel to tell you about upcoming maintenances and report (in realtime) any issues affecting our services. For those of you not familiar, you should […]
Last week I had the pleasure to host a webinar with one of our new Trust Service partners, Trustwave. In that session, Dan Marfione, Trustwave’s Partner Sales Director, SSL, gave resellers some background on Trustwave and talked at length about how adding SSL to your product lineup can help boost sales and help your bottom […]
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 […]
Almost every time I meet with an OpenSRS reseller, they end up saying, “Hey, it would be great if you had something to help me deal with (particular marketing challenge).” And I end up saying, “We do have that! #@!!%! We posted it on the blog five times and emailed you like thirty.” And they say, “OK, […]
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). 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 give you transparency into who is getting […]
