Blog Articles
Announcing Comodo and Trustwave SSL products, plus lower pricing on GeoTrust and thawte
Today we’re announcing a number of changes to the OpenSRS Trust Service to make it easier for you to sell SSL and trust products to your customers. Here’s a portion of the official news release: TORONTO, Mar. 16 – Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX) (TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, […]
Reseller Control Panel sneak preview
Be careful! This is no ordinary blog post. You’re going to need some headphones with the volume turned way up and you’re going to want to be sitting down before you look at what we have to show you. This is a post about our control panels. People say they’re ugly. This hurt our feelings […]
International Pi Day Celebration: no squares allowed!
Just a reminder folks that March 14th is fast approaching. Do you have plans to celebrate? We’re not talking about Einstein’s birthday (although I bet he’d be happy to know you remembered). We’re talking about International Pi Day, which happens every March 14 (3.14, get it?) Pi Day has been celebrated by math enthusiasts and other […]
Domains industry news round-up
It has been a busy start to the year across the domain name industry. A couple of registries have already reached significant milestones this year, and the industry as a whole continues to grow at a steady rate. .COM.AU and .ORG Hit Milestones On the ccTLD-front, AusRegistry reported that they reached two million .com.au domains […]
Introducing VeriSign Partner Grab and Go – easy SSL marketing
We’re really pleased to be the first wholesale registrar to offer the VeriSign Partner Progam’s Grab and Go SSL marketing content to our reseller base. Grab and Go is a great new service that makes it easy for you to build and maintain your SSL and trust marketing webpages. There’s a variety of content modules […]
Discussing new TLDs at .nxt conference
Last week, I joined close to 200 other attendees at the inaugural .nxt conference in San Francisco. The conference, which was sponsored in part by OpenSRS, brought together industry leaders to discuss the impact of ICANN’s new Top Level Domains (TLD) program, which will likely see hundreds of new domain name extensions introduced to the […]
StopBadware: Request for comments part II
A short while ago, I wrote about our friends at StopBadware and their initiative to draft a document that covers best practices when dealing with malware of all kinds. The support received been fantastic and they’re now on the second draft of the RFC. This is an important issue that affects all of us. If […]
goMobi updated to version 1.3 with better, full website features
Version 1.3 of goMobi has just been released and is now live for all users of the service Included in this update are a number of new features that will be of interest to resellers and end-users, along with a series of bug fixes and backend changes that won’t be visible, but will improve […]
WHOIS privacy now available for .CO domains
Effective today, it’s now possible to add WHOIS privacy to .CO domains. At launch WHOIS privacy was not permitted on .CO domain names. Recently that policy was amended to permit the use of WHOIS privacy for .CO registrations. Included free As with all other domain extensions that support the use of WHOIS privacy, there’s no […]
goMobi updated to version 1.3 with better, full website features
Version 1.3 of goMobi has just been released and is now live for all users of the service. Included in this update are a number of new features that will be of interest to resellers and end-users, along with a series of bug fixes and backend changes that won’t be visible, but will improve the […]
