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Take your business global because that is where the market is going

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. […]

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September 2012・Industry Insight

Meet our reseller: Brain Host

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 […]

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September 2012・Industry Insight

Meet our reseller: Hoster.by

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 […]

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July 2012・Industry Insight

Happy 2nd birthday, .CO!

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, […]

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July 2012・Industry Insight

HostingCon 2012: profiting from changes "right of the dot"

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 […]

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CIRA 2012 Board of Directors Election

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 […]

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December 2011・Domain Names, Industry Insight

Premium domains work

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 […]

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November 2011・Domain Names, Industry Insight

Take advantage of .ME’s momentum

.ME is on a roll lately. More and more .ME domains are being registered and used around the Internet, including some very high-profile and very visible sites. There are now more than 550,000 .ME domains registered, and hundreds of .ME domains are found on the Alexa Top 100,000 Sites list. With stats like that, it’s […]

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