Blog Articles
Verisign and the US Department of Commerce – our take
This morning, it was announced that Verisign and the US Department of Commerce had come to an agreement that allows Verisign to continue to operate the .com domain for another six years. What was missing from that contract was the hot topic of conversation this morning – Verisign no longer has the right to four […]
New webmail transition update
It’s been about three weeks since all users of OpenSRS Email Service were moved to the latest version of our webmail application. Since the switchover, we’ve heard some great feedback from you and your customers. We know from experience that users are generally resistant to change, so we always go into these webmail upgrades with […]
December ccTLD-of-the-week
We’re bringing back some past favourites this month, plus discounting an obvious choice for the Christmas holiday week: .CX from the Christmas Islands. December ccTLDs-of-the-week: ccTLD Dates Details Cost/year .ST Nov 26 – Dec 2 Sao Tome and Principe $13/year (normally $45) .IM Dec 3 – Dec 9 Isle of Man $8/year (normally $15) .LV […]
Happy Thanksgiving to our US friends
Thursday, November 22, 2012 is Thanksgiving Day in the US. While we’re definitely thankful for a multitude of various things up here in Canada where OpenSRS is based, tomorrow is not a holiday for us. As a result, we’ll be staffed as usual in all departments. We wish our American friends a Happy Thanksgiving and […]
Embeddable Ting savings calculator
Here is an easier way to tell your customers about Ting and demonstrate the savings they can receive. Use our embeddable savings calculator on your own site. We’ve taken out links back to Ting.com, so all you need to do is show a link/banner with your referral code to direct people to the Ting site. […]
New .ASIA domain promotion
Starting on November 1 and continuing through to the end of the year, .ASIA domains will be on sale at a registry cost of just $1.99. Considering the usual registry cost for .ASIA is $10, it’s a pretty great deal. Like most OpenSRS promotions, you’ll need to sign up to take advantage of the savings […]
OpenSRS help & support
If you’ve opened a ticket with us in the past week or so, then you’ve probably already noticed something new. We recently transitioned to a new platform for OpenSRS Help and Support. The cutover went quite smoothly. The new ticket system for Reseller Support offers some great new things for you – ticket history, the […]
OpenSRS email cluster B migration update – October 19
The migration of customer mailboxes off the troubled storage infrastructure to the new NAS clusters continues as expected. We’re pleased to report that the migration of customer mailboxes from the specific head that was causing the issues on Email Cluster B is nearly complete, within the expected timeframe noted in our previous update. A very […]
Take your business global because that is where the market is going
Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series of guest posts by Phil Shih, founder of Structure Research. The hosting business has shown exemplary growth since its inception in the 90s. Surging Internet adoption and the larger shift to communicating, collaborating and conducting business online guaranteed that hosters would have plenty of addressable markets. […]
OpenSRS email cluster B migration update
We want to provide an update on our effort to restore the level of service that you and your customers had become accustomed to prior to the recent outages affecting OpenSRS Email Cluster B. As mentioned in the Incident Report for the latest degradation of service, we’ve begun moving customer mailboxes off the troubled storage […]
