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Help eliminate malware: public request for comments

The Internet can be a dangerous place, even for the professionals who live and breath it. Imagine the frustration felt by website owners after realizing their site has been compromised and attempts to infect its visitors, many of them potential customers. StopBadware, a non-profit organization, founded at Harvard University in 2006, helps stop badware: viruses, […]

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Contact Privacy video now available for download

Internet privacy is a big deal these days. Privacy breaches at various sites have exposed sensitive data like home addresses, phone numbers, email, and more. But for domain name owners, there’s another easily preventable privacy pitfall out there that could cause just as much headache as a major social networking site leaking their personal data. […]

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Happy Birthday Creative Commons

Last week Creative Commons celebrated its 10th birthday. To help celebrate, Tucows issued a challenge to Creative Commons donors: do what you can to donate to the Creative Commons cause, and we’ll match contributions up to a total of $10,000. At Tucows, we strongly believe that openness drives innovation. For those of you not familiar with the […]

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The reseller-friendly approach to ccTLDs

I’ve written several posts over the past few months about the reseller-friendly choices we’ve made in our products, our pricing and our policies. ccTLDs provides another great example. There are a few approaches that a registrar could be tempted to take on ccTLDs… You could essentially avoid them. Offering a wide selection of ccTLDs means […]

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Meet the Resellers: Softcom

Through its myhosting.com and mail2web.com brands, Softcom, an OpenSRS Reseller since 2000, has established itself as a leading provider of web hosting and business communication services to small business and small to mid-sized enterprises in 140 countries around the world. In addition to web hosting, Softcom provides messaging and collaboration services to more than 25,000 […]

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September 2010・Industry Insight

Meet the resellers: (mt) media temple

They are often considered to be a tough bunch to please, but OpenSRS Reseller (mt) Media Temple has built an extremely successful hosting business by catering to the specific needs of web designers and taking a customer-centric approach to everything they do. Those often tough-to-please designers demand a hosting provider that they can trust to […]

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September 2010・Industry Insight

A world without the web: celebrating OneWebDay 2010

OneWebDay is a celebration held every September 22 with the goal of educating lovers of the Internet around the world about the importance of the open Internet. At OpenSRS, we put together a short video that asks the hypothetical question, “Without the Web, how would we…?” We had a lot of fun putting it together […]

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September 2010・Industry Insight

Meet the resellers: DiscountASP.NET

Carving out a niche, then staying focused has been the key to success for web host and OpenSRS Reseller, DiscountASP.NET. That singularly focused approach meshed perfectly with OpenSRS and its consistent commitment to the wholesale Internet services market. The Pasadena, California-based webhost started out in 2003 as a shared hosting provider with a twist, offering […]

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