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August 2010・Industry Insight

.ORG surpasses 8.5 million domains

The latest edition of the bi-annual .org domain name report, “The Dashboard,” is now available. Public Internet Registry (PIR), the operator of the .org domain extension released the report, which showed 7.6% growth in the .org domain in the first half of 2010. That’s twice the growth compared to 2009 and signals continued strength in […]

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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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August 2010・Industry Insight

The upside of downtime in today’s socially connected Interwebs

If you’re an OpenSRS reseller, I have no doubt that you’re concerned about availability and uptime. Downtime affects us all and it really, really sucks. As if dealing with a service impacting incident while it’s happening isn’t difficult enough, social tools like Twitter make it impossible to squelch harmful speculation that can result from a […]

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