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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.org The success and popularity of the Internet is owed to the ideals promoted by OneWebDay: Why the world needs an open Internet. With a closed Internet, you can forget about hearing stories about innovation. Remember the two guys who started a search company in their dorm and turned the enterprise into a billion-dollar company? Wouldn’t […]

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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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August 2010・Industry Insight

.ORG surpasses 8.5 million domains

  The Public Internet Registry (PIR), the operator of the .org domain extension, announced in its January to June 2010 edition of “The Dashboard” that .org has surpassed 8.5 million domain registrations. The report highlighted a 7.6% growth in .org domains during the first half of 2010, doubling the growth rate of 2009. This strong […]

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Tucows or not Tucows

Our new Tucows badge program has inspired some great discussions and debates (both internally and with our resellers!). I want to quickly contribute some more thoughts on evaluating whether this program makes sense for you. The big idea here is to let your customers and prospects know that a domain name registered with you is […]

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Four million .nl domains

This week the total number of .nl domain names in existence hit the four million mark for the first time, according to SIDN, the .nl Registry. That puts .nl in fourth place in terms of ccTLDs for total registrations behind .de, .uk and .cn. Curiously, .nl actually leads all ccTLDs when you look at total […]

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August 2010・Industry Insight

Meet the resellers: Xpress Hosting

Este artículo está disponible en español a continuación. Mexico-based webhost Xpress Hosting has used a customer-centric approach to doing business to become the leading webhost in the region. It was only natural then, for Xpress Hosting to seek out a wholesale Registrar with the same focus on the customer. Xpress Hosting began working with OpenSRS […]

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August 2010・Industry Insight

The importance of the .EU Registrar Advisory Board

At OpenSRS, .EU is an integral part of our business. Our strong presence throughout Europe means the domain extension, which is immediately recognizable across the continent, is one most of the most popular sold among our European resellers. And with the registry having now surpassed three million names under management, it is clear the extension […]

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