Happy Easter holidays from the OpenSRS team! We’ll be closed this Friday, April 22nd for the Easter holiday. Our technical support team continues to be available 24/7 to assist you. Please note that during this closure, there will be: No orders or requests processed for the following TLD’s: .at, .fr, .ch, .li, .dk, .com.mx No […]
You work in an intense competitive environment. Customers are always comparing your services and your prices to others’. When you mess up, there’s a pretty good chance you’re going to get defectors. When a competitor messes up, there’s a good chance you’re going to benefit. So what do you do when a competitor messes up […]
Yesterday, small and medium size businesses (SMBs) in Canada got a gift from Google to jump start their business presence online. Hosted by Kevin O’Leary of Dragon’s Den at the historical Fermenting Cellar, in the Distillery district in Toronto, Canada, SMBs can now get a website & .CA domain for free as part of the […]
Today we’re announcing a number of changes to the OpenSRS Trust Service to make it easier for you to sell SSL and trust products to your customers. Here’s a portion of the official news release: TORONTO, Mar. 16 – Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX) (TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, […]
Just a reminder folks that March 14th is fast approaching. Do you have plans to celebrate? We’re not talking about Einstein’s birthday (although I bet he’d be happy to know you remembered). We’re talking about International Pi Day, which happens every March 14 (3.14, get it?) Pi Day has been celebrated by math enthusiasts and other […]
It has been a busy start to the year across the domain name industry. A couple of registries have already reached significant milestones this year, and the industry as a whole continues to grow at a steady rate. .COM.AU and .ORG Hit Milestones On the ccTLD-front, AusRegistry reported that they reached two million .com.au domains […]
Last week, I joined close to 200 other attendees at the inaugural .nxt conference in San Francisco. The conference, which was sponsored in part by OpenSRS, brought together industry leaders to discuss the impact of ICANN’s new Top Level Domains (TLD) program, which will likely see hundreds of new domain name extensions introduced to the […]
Happy Family Day from the OpenSRS team! We’ll be closed this Monday for Ontario’s Family Day holiday. We’re looking forward to spending some quality time with our loved ones. Our technical support team continues to be available 24/7 to assist you. Please note that during this closure, there will be: No orders or requests processed […]
A short while ago, I wrote about our friends at StopBadware and their initiative to draft a document that covers best practices when dealing with malware of all kinds. The support received been fantastic and they’re now on the second draft of the RFC. This is an important issue that affects all of us. If […]
Effective today, it’s now possible to add WHOIS privacy to .CO domains. At launch WHOIS privacy was not permitted on .CO domain names. Recently that policy was amended to permit the use of WHOIS privacy for .CO registrations. Included free As with all other domain extensions that support the use of WHOIS privacy, there’s no […]
