Blog Articles
The reseller-friendly approach to ccTLDs
I’ve written several posts over the past few months about the reseller-friendly choices we’ve made in our products, our pricing and our policies. ccTLDs provides another great example. There are a few approaches that a registrar could be tempted to take on ccTLDs… You could essentially avoid them. Offering a wide selection of ccTLDs means […]
EPP .IT registrations coming to OpenSRS in January
In late January 2011, we will be transitioning .IT domain registration services in OpenSRS to the Extensible Provisioning Platform (EPP) that the .IT Registry provides. Once that transition is complete, .IT domain registrations will be fully automated in OpenSRS and completed in real-time. No more manual processing or signed documentation will be required. As a […]
ICANN 39 review: the latest developments on new gTLDs and .XXX
I just returned from ICANN’s 39th International Public Meeting, held last week in the beautiful city of Cartagena, Colombia. This was a highly anticipated meeting by many in the domain industry, as major developments were expected with regard to both the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) process and .XXX, the proposed extension for adult […]
Annual report now available for the .INFO top-level domain
The annual report for .INFO was released today and for anybody interested in .INFO, or domain names in general should find it an interesting read. The report shows that in 2010, the top-level domain (TLD) grew nearly 30% to more than 6.8 million domain names registered, holding it in place as the #1 new TLD […]
Meet the Resellers: Heart Internet
UK-based hosting provider Heart Internet, OpenSRS reseller since 2004, relies on OpenSRS to provide backend solutions for domain name registrations, SSL certificates and new services like goMobi that will help the company maintain the impressive growth rate that places it at the top of the heap in the UK. Co-founders Jonathan Brealey and Tim Beresford […]
goMobi is here try it out for 30 days free
Update: goMobi v1.2 was released in early December. You can find out more about the v1.2 release here. Starting today, you’re able to sell goMobi through OpenSRS. It’s a new service from dotMobi that provides your customers with a simple, inexpensive way to build and host a mobile-ready website that works along with their existing […]
Happy Thanksgiving
Just a quick note to say Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends south of the border! Unfortunately for us, we’re stuck here at the office, toiling away, as you sit down with your families to enjoy your delicious turkey ‘n gravy, homemade stuffing and mashed potatoes. Mmmmm. On the plus side, thanks to the power […]
May I help you? and/or help yourself
Full service versus self-service A key strategic question in any service business is where to play along the spectrum from managed service (or full service) to self-service. This is particularly true with Web services, which can be either particularly sophisticated (necessitating full service) or particularly simple (enabling self-service). The answer, as always, will be driven by […]
The OpenSRS Quarterly for Q3 is now available
We’re excited to announce that our OpenSRS Quarterly for 2010-Q3 is now available for download. Have you found yourself wondering how your own own performance indicators measure up against other OpenSRS resellers? Key performance metrics like renewal rates by quarter, new registrations and transfers in and out have long been providing valuable insight to service […]
CIRA contest looking for .CA websites making a difference
A few OpenSRSers are at the meshmarketing event held right here in our hometown of Toronto. One of the presenters is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) who are the keepers of the .CA domain extension. Over the past few years, CIRA has doing a ton of work to promote the .CA extension and to […]
