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Free webinar: tapping into mobile trends with goMobi
Mobile Internet usage continues to grow and your customers are likely looking to you for ways to ensure that their websites are mobile-ready. On June 14, 2012, I’ll be hosting a free webinar with Chris Campbell, Director of Business Development, Afilias (the people behind the .MOBI domain extension and our goMobi mobile website solution). Chris […]
On-demand webinar – Ting and OpenSRS offers
Last week I teamed up with Scott Allan, Director at Ting, to host a webinar to talk about the addition of Ting to our OpenSRS Offers service. For those who aren’t aware, Ting is a new mobile phone service that Tucows launched in the US earlier this year. Through OpenSRS Offers, we’re providing our Resellers […]
.JOBS and .AERO domains now available
Granted, these are a pair of fairly specialized extensions, but for those who wish to offer either .JOBS or .AERO domains, you can now do it through your OpenSRS reseller account. Pricing is as follows: As you might expect, there are some additional requirements for registrants of both extensions: We’ve left both extensions turned off […]
CIRA 2012 Board of Directors Election
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Nomination Committee is seeking interested individuals from across Canada to apply to fill three open positions for the Nomination Committee Slate of CIRA’s Board of Directors Election. Canadians with governance experience and relevant background in industry, technology or the Internet are encouraged to apply. Applications will be accepted from […]
ORG, PRO and ASIA promos
A couple of domain promotions that were scheduled to end today have been extended and we have a great new promo from .ASIA! Extended promotions .ASIA FreeBs You can see all current promotions on our Domain Promotions page.
goMobi v1.6 now available for all users
As of this morning, the goMobi mobile website publishing service has been updated to v1.6. There’s nothing you need to do – all users of goMobi will automatically get the update. There are quite a few small changes and additions to the goMobi service, but the overall experience remains very similar to what it was […]
.COM.BR added to OpenSRS
Starting today, resellers can add .COM.BR to the list of ccTLDs they can sell through OpenSRS. Brazil is a big and growing market, so the addition of .COM.BR to the ever growing list of ccTLDs we offer is one we think will be of great interest to many of you. In fact, .BR is the […]
WHD.global session notes – "hosting after Megaupload.com: risks, opportunities and chances"
Many of us OpenSRSers are in Rust, Germany this week for the WHD.global show. To give you a flavour of what this conference is all about, I’ve attended a few sessions and will provide some notes here. Today I took in a very interesting session at WHD.global talking about the recent Megaupload case and the […]
Leap day domain registrations explained
Tomorrow is a leap day – February 29 – an extra day that shows up in February ever four years (well, sort of. Years that are evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years). That has some implications for domain […]
Bulk tools now live in new OpenSRS control panel
If you’ve logged in to the new OpenSRS Control panel in the last couple of days, you’ve likely noticed a big change. There’s now a “bulk action” menu in the top right corner of the panel that allows you to easily perform bulk changes and modifications to the domains in your reseller account. If you’re […]
