This morning, it was announced that Verisign and the US Department of Commerce had come to an agreement that allows Verisign to continue to operate the .com domain for another six years. What was missing from that contract was the hot topic of conversation this morning – Verisign no longer has the right to four […]
Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series of guest posts by Phil Shih, founder of Structure Research. The hosting business has shown exemplary growth since its inception in the 90s. Surging Internet adoption and the larger shift to communicating, collaborating and conducting business online guaranteed that hosters would have plenty of addressable markets. […]
Akron, Ohio-based Brain Host is a great example of a newer entrant in the hosting space that is succeeding thanks to a bit of a different approach. With an extensive background in marketing, the founders of Brain Host recognized that their customers were looking for a website rather than hosting. By tailoring their own marketing […]
We’re back with another OpenSRS Reseller profile – this time we talked to Hoster.by, the largest hosting provider in Belarus. We’re happy to be working with Hoster.by who came to OpenSRS about a year ago and have been growing their business quite rapidly. They not only provide hosting services to individual, small and mid-sized and […]
Last week marked the two-year anniversary of the relaunch of the .CO domain extension. It was July 20, 2010, when .CO officially set its sights on becoming the go-to web address for the world’s entrepreneurs, innovators and next great businesses. Although there was some skepticism as to whether the world needed yet another domain extension, […]
Given the mainstream media coverage, chances are you’ve heard of the changes coming to the domain name space over the next two years. Thanks to ICANN’s decision to vastly expand the number of domain name extensions available, there’s a good chance we’ll have an entirely new view of how domain names are used as Internet […]
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Nomination Committee is seeking interested individuals from across Canada to apply to fill three open positions for the Nomination Committee Slate of CIRA’s Board of Directors Election. Canadians with governance experience and relevant background in industry, technology or the Internet are encouraged to apply. Applications will be accepted from […]
Many of us OpenSRSers are in Rust, Germany this week for the WHD.global show. To give you a flavour of what this conference is all about, I’ve attended a few sessions and will provide some notes here. Today I took in a very interesting session at WHD.global talking about the recent Megaupload case and the […]
Your customers choose you for a variety of reasons – maybe it’s a higher level of customer support or specific high quality services that you offer. Maybe it’s because they know and trust you or because you are a part of their local community. There is a real opportunity to be the trusted provider for […]
A few months ago, we expanded our premium (secondary market) domain offering. We encouraged you to help your customers find the perfect domain by including premium domains in your search results using the OpenSRS API. We recognized this would require some front-end work. We recognized many of you still thought of a domain name as […]
