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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 […]

OpenSRS joins Parallels domain name network
This morning at the Parallels Summit in Orlando, we announced that we’re joining the Parallels Domain Name Network (DNN). This means that service providers who use Parallels can now easily sign up to become an OpenSRS Reseller and start selling domain names, SSL certificates and more through Parallels products. If you are at Parallels Summit, […]

The Ting mobile reseller opportunity
We announced some exciting news today, the public launch of Ting, our US mobile service. We have talked about Ting in the past, both here and in other places so if you have no idea what I am talking about maybe take a quick look here first. I wanted to let you know some more […]

Hosting trends for 2012 – free webinar
NOTE: If you missed the live webinar, we now have a recording available for viewing at any time. Click here to view. Staying on top of where the hosting industry is headed is key in ensuring that you are able to react quickly and be successful. Arming you with great information about the current state […]

Help and advice on implementing new ccTLDs from OpenSRS
Last week we hosted a webinar for resellers to get up to speed on the expansion of our ccTLD lineup that we did in December. If you missed the news about that launch, you can check out this post from Adam Eisner – we added dozens and dozens of new ccTLDs to the list of […]

Being your customers’ trusted provider
Your customers choose you for a variety of reasons – maybe it’s a higher level of customer support or specific high quality services that you offer. Maybe it’s because they know and trust you or because you are a part of their local community. There is a real opportunity to be the trusted provider for […]

More than 100 new ccTLDs added
Today we enabled a huge number of new ccTLDs available through OpenSRS. A few months back we announced that we acquired the German registrar EPAG. The reason for the acquisition was that we wanted to significantly bolster our lineup of country-code top-level domains. Today’s release is the first round of new ccTLDs that we’ll add […]

.PRO domains now available
Today we added .PRO domains to the list of gTLDs available through OpenSRS. To celebrate the launch, we’re also offering a .PRO launch promotion providing substantial savings off the usual registration fee. From now until February 15, 2012, .PRO domains will be available with a registry cost of $1.99/domain year for new registrations (the regular […]