August 2020・Better your business, Industry Insight
How to win by treating your customers as members
Jeffrey Sass, CMO of the .CLUB domain registry, explores the eCommerce trend towards membership and subscription services.
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July 2020・Industry Insight, Product Updates
SSL certificate validity periods reduced to 1 year
Back in February of this year, Apple announced that as of September 1, 2020, its Safari browser will no longer trust newly registered SSL certificates with validity periods of two years. Two-year certificates registered up until August 31, 2020, will be trusted, but those registered on or after September 1, 2020, will not. To prevent […]
What Brexit means for .EU registrants
Last updated: June 2, 2021 On February 1, 2020, the United Kingdom officially withdrew from the European Union, with a transition period that will extend until December 31, 2020. One of the consequences of Brexit is that many UK-based, .EU domain owners will no longer meet the .EU eligibility requirements. On November 20, 2020, EURid, […]
June 2020・Better your business, Industry Insight
A great domain for freelancers and entrepreneurs? Try .ME
Today, personal websites function as a calling card that can help your customers showcase an online portfolio, house their resume or blog, and find creative ways to establish their personal brand. .ME is a great option for entrepreneurs, hobbyists, and professionals looking to do any of the above. And as more and more of these […]
June 2020・Industry Insight
Flazio’s white label CMS, SiteBuilderBuilder
Today, we’re highlighting one of our partners, Flazio, an Italian CMS provider that serves customers around the globe. They focus on providing innovative tools and straightforward user experience to enable anyone to create just about any type of website, with specialized templates and tools for a huge scope of end-user niches. Most recently, they launched […]
June 2020・Industry Insight
Bandzoogle: website builder for musicians
The OpenSRS team has enough musically inclined members to form at least two in-house rock bands, so we’re geeking out pretty hard about highlighting Bandzoogle on our blog. The Montreal-based SaaS company calls itself the easiest all-in-one professional website platform for musicians and bands. They target a unique vertical, one that their team is hugely […]
April 2020・Better your business, Industry Insight
Avoiding COVID-19 cyberattacks with security best-practices
Most of us that work in Tech are familiar with security best practices, but for many people, including your customers, being thrust into working remotely and conducting more daily activity online can bring with it security risks. Now is a great time to support your customers with tips on how to stay secure online and […]
April 2020・Domain Names, Industry Insight
Tucows approaches to COVID related domain registration
From an early point in the current global crisis, it was clear to Tucows that we were going to need to do something new and different in how we responded to COVID-19 related domain registrations. Many of these domains are registered for good, helpful purposes, such as community organization, dissemination of healthcare information, and recording […]
March 2020・Announcements, Industry Insight
OpenSRS’ response to COVID-19
The health and safety of our customers, partners, and employees are of the highest priority to OpenSRS. With the heightened concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus) and the unpredictable nature of the virus, we have taken precautionary steps to reduce its potential impact across our offices globally. We want to assure you […]
Privacy and lawful access to personal data at Tucows
Tucows provides reasonable, lawful access to non-public registration data; this means constantly working to balance the privacy rights of registrants against the rights of third parties, most of which, in our experience, are related to intellectual property rights (90% of all requests). In addition to the usual statistics, this update also includes a deep dive […]
