Blog Articles
Rethinking SSL marketing
I’ve talked in the past about starting the sales process for SSL certificates “upstream” – that is, offering the appropriate certificate to your customer after assessing their needs, rather than immediately going to a lower cost domain validated certificate. You can have a look at that post if you missed it, but the basic premise […]
On-demand webinar: hosting industry market overview (mid-2012)
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a webinar for our resellers with Phil Shih from Structure Research. He gave his “state of the hosting industry” presentation and got us all up to date on the trends that are shaping the industry as we pass the mid-point of 2012. Like all of our webinars, […]
Free webinar with Phil Shih from Structure Research
I’ll be hosting a free webinar this Thursday, August 9 at 11:00 A.M. (EDT) with Phil Shih from Structure Research. If you weren’t at this year’s HostingCon conference in Boston, then this is a great opportunity to get informed and educated about the state of the hosting industry as we move through the second half […]
ccTLDs of the week for August
The ccTLD of the Week promotion continues on with great deals. Here’s what we have planned for August. If you’ve been waiting for a particular ccTLD, let us know in the comments and we’ll see what we can do. Upcoming ccTLDs of the week: ccTLD Dates Details Cost/year .CZ Aug 6-Aug 12 Czech Republic $12/year […]
Happy 2nd birthday, .CO!
Last week marked the two-year anniversary of the relaunch of the .CO domain extension. It was July 20, 2010, when .CO officially set its sights on becoming the go-to web address for the world’s entrepreneurs, innovators and next great businesses. Although there was some skepticism as to whether the world needed yet another domain extension, […]
HostingCon 2012: profiting from changes "right of the dot"
Given the mainstream media coverage, chances are you’ve heard of the changes coming to the domain name space over the next two years. Thanks to ICANN’s decision to vastly expand the number of domain name extensions available, there’s a good chance we’ll have an entirely new view of how domain names are used as Internet […]
40+ new ccTLDs added to OpenSRS
We’ve added another batch of ccTLDs to OpenSRS today. That brings the total to well over 100 ccTLDs available for you to sell. Some of the more popular extensions in this round: The full list of TLDs along with pricing can be found on the Available TLDs page of our website. If you haven’t looked […]
Get a year of SiteLock free for your site
Last year we partnered with SiteLock to offer our resellers a great wholesale price on their malware scanning product. Since then, many of you have expressed interest (both enthusiasm and doubt) in the service, the features and the benefits to your clients. So like buying a car, we want you to take SiteLock out for a test […]
Explore the next version of webmail in OpenSRS email service
Great news! On July 5th, 2012, we’re rolling out an updated version of our webmail application in a “preview mode” for all users of OpenSRS Email Service. Starting that day, your users will be able to choose between the current interface, and the newly updated interface, through a “preview” toggle on the webmail login screen. […]
Talking about Ting
In our recent webinar about selling Ting, ultramarathoner James Koole suggested that you should “host more of the conversation on your side than ours.” I want to share a piece of data to support that point, elaborate on it a bit and see if I can offer you some help. First the data. Looking at […]
