We issued a press release today announcing that Tucows has agreed to acquire eNom from Rightside. By bringing together OpenSRS and eNom under one roof, we are definitively forming the largest wholesale registrar (since we had each been making that claim independently for several years already!) and we are forming the second-largest registrar in the world […]
There are millions of domain name possibilities waiting to be registered, but what about domains that are already taken? Premium domain names are an easy way to drastically increase the number of options for your customers to choose from by offering domain names that are currently registered. What are premium domain names? Quite simply, premium […]
Domain transfers between registrars and registrants happen thousands of times every day. You would think that such an ubiquitous process works well, like a well-oiled machine. Unfortunately, ICANN and the ICANN community do not share this view. ICANN has recently concluded a lengthy review process of all the policies that govern domain transfers in the […]
OpenSRS sends thousands of messages daily on behalf of our resellers. We’re excited to announce the launch of a new messaging platform, a feature-rich system that gives you greater control over look and feel, language and source code of all the messages that OpenSRS sends on your behalf such as renewals notices, registrant verification emails, […]
.CLOUD – the modern gTLD for the cloud space and beyond – captured March’s top spot, followed by three technology-driven gTLDs – .TECH, .BIO and .SPACE. Versatile gTLDs follow that pack, with .LIVE in 5th, .ONLINE in 6th, .LINK in 7th and .BEST in 8th places. Wrapping up the top 10, .SRL for Spanish and […]
Tucows Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the international wholesale domain reseller channel of Melbourne IT Limited. The acquisition will add hundreds of resellers and approximately 1.6 million domains under management to Tucows’ OpenSRS wholesale domain business. Tucows will not acquire any of Melbourne IT’s operations and the transaction […]
We have just launched an improved version of the domain pricing list. We have added new subtle features as well as refined familiar ones to make domain searching more efficient. What’s new: One-pager We have merged Available domains and Upcoming domains into a single page. Simply toggle between the two tabs to view each section. Price + type filters […]
We have changed our operating hours (ET) to suit our resellers – Effective immediately. Monday – Thursday: 24 hours Friday: 12:00 am – 11:00 pm Saturday & Sunday: 8:00 am – 8:00 pm Email: [email protected] Twitter: @opensrshelp Toll-free phone North America: 1 888 511 7284 International: +800 371 69922 Countries eligible for toll-free landline calling Argentina Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada […]
.ONLINE – The intuitive, straightforward and super versatile extension is the top performing new gTLD for the month of August. It was also a comeback month for .XYZ. In July it was in 20th place, but last month, it has sprung back up to 2nd place. This was followed by the perfect extension for anyone […]
.CLUB – The domain name that welcomes everyone as a member takes the number one spot as the top performing new gTLD for the month of July. The extension .XYZ dropped hard as it goes from 2nd to 20th place last month. Perhaps it might get a boost in August thanks to Google’s latest announcement. Also, we saw a lot of […]
