Blog Articles
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 […]
goMobi available soon to OpenSRS resellers
You’ve probably heard about goMobi service that was recently launched by the dotMobi registry. This wicked cool service turns any standard website into an easy to use, fully customizable mobile site with no programming required. Better still, the service is optimized for many of today’s popular mobile devices. We’re excited about having this available to […]
Have your registrar accreditation and eat it too
You may have heard the News Last Week that Automattic, the company behind WordPress (and other cool services) has become its own accredited registrar and it got me thinking that it’s been a while since we’ve talked about our own Registrar Service. We have all different kinds of wholesale, or white label, clients selling domain […]
Locking .CA domain names
The transition to the new EPP-based registry platform for .CA domains went very smoothly. The last of a couple of minor bugs have now been fixed and everything is back to the new normal for .CA domains. We thank all of our Resellers for their help and patience throughout the transition process. The result is […]
New features and enhancements for OpenSRS email service
We’re just putting the finishing touches on a Fall Release for OpenSRS Email Service. Your users should see these new features and enhancements starting on October 28th, 2010. Here’s what’s happening: Allowable email message size increased to 35MB: incoming and outgoing messages can now be larger. This reflects the increasing size of things like photos […]
Welcome Thorsten Einig, OpenSRS’ new Managing Director, Europe
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Thorsten Einig to the OpenSRS team as our new Managing Director, Europe. Thorsten brings a wealth of experience in the hosting and internet industry, and we’re excited to have him leading the charge as we continue to support and grow our OpenSRS business in Europe! Thorsten has more […]
Meet the Resellers: Softcom
Through its myhosting.com and mail2web.com brands, Softcom, an OpenSRS Reseller since 2000, has established itself as a leading provider of web hosting and business communication services to small business and small to mid-sized enterprises in 140 countries around the world. In addition to web hosting, Softcom provides messaging and collaboration services to more than 25,000 […]
