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February 2011・Announcements, Better your business, Domain Names, Industry Insight, Product Updates

Discussing new TLDs at .nxt conference

Last week, I joined close to 200 other attendees at the inaugural .nxt conference in San Francisco. The conference, which was sponsored in part by OpenSRS, brought together industry leaders to discuss the impact of ICANN’s new Top Level Domains (TLD) program, which will likely see hundreds of new domain name extensions introduced to the […]

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・Announcements, Better your business, Domain Names, Industry Insight, Product Updates, Web Security

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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January 2011・Better your business, Industry Insight, Product Updates, Web Security

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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December 2010・Announcements, Industry Insight, Product Updates

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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December 2010・Announcements, Better your business, Domain Names, Industry Insight, Product Updates

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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October 2010・Announcements, Domain Names, Hosted Email, Industry Insight, Product Updates

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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