Blog Articles
A new and improved .CA registry now with EPP compliance
Earlier this morning, the team over at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has confirmed a successful 24 hour maintenance with an upgrade that brings the .CA Registry to full EPP compliance. We’re still doing some post maintenance diligence on our end but in the meantime, order provisioning of .CA domains has been re-enabled as […]
CIRA registry transition is underway
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has begun the transition to its new registry platform as of this morning at 9am EDT. We’re keeping a close eye on things over at CIRA and we’re in regular communication with the registry throughout the transition. The CIRA registry is unavailable throughout the 24 hour transition period. That […]
.CA transition update
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is transitioning to a new Registry platform for .CA domains beginning on October 12, 2010. OpenSRS is ready to go, and we expect a successful transition to the new platform along with CIRA. Test environment updated Resellers with API integrations for .CA domains are encouraged to test them using […]
Holiday hours for Canadian Thanksgiving- October 11
Monday, October 11th is Canadian Thanksgiving, which means that our headquarters in Toronto will be operating on holiday hours. Here’s a schedule showing which departments will be open: Here’s our hours by department for Monday, October 11th, 2010: Department Hours Technical Support Regular hours Payments Closed Compliance Closed Our normal hours will resume on […]
Introducing OpenSRS Trust Service
Today we’re very excited to announce that OpenSRS is rolling out a brand new Trust Service that incorporates the first phase of the long-awaited new control panels for the OpenSRS platform and that we’re adding SSL certificates and other trust products and services into the OpenSRS API. If you haven’t yet tapped into the opportunities […]
OpenSRS in New York for Web 2.0 Expo
A bunch of us OpenSRS’ers are in the Big Apple this week for the New York edition of the Web 2.0 Expo. We’re bringing the OpenSRS story to New York over the next couple of days. Drop by and say ‘hi’ if you are in the sponsor pavilion – we’re in booth 210. You can’t […]
Refunds for misspelled domain names because that’s how we roll
As human beings, we all make mistakes, some are bigger than others. But when it comes to misspelling a domain name, should your end users be stuck with anything other than a perfect representation of their brand? At OpenSRS, we don’t think so. That’s why we have a five day window during which time a […]
.AU Domains Now Available through OpenSRS
As of today, you can add .au domains to the ever-growing list of ccTLDs available through OpenSRS. We thought about doing a typical blog post full of Australian references to things we think go on “Down Under” – like putting another shrimp on the barbie, Paul Hogan (aka Crocodile Dundee), lots of happy kangaroos and […]
CIRA 2010 symposium and AGM
The Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA), the governing body that maintains the dotCA domain registry held its annual general meeting and Symposium in Toronto this week. CIRA’s President, Byron Holland described the relentless change on the Internet, year after year and the impossibility to predict that change. CIRA operates in a 100% uptime environment and […]
Meet the resellers: (mt) media temple
They are often considered to be a tough bunch to please, but OpenSRS Reseller (mt) Media Temple has built an extremely successful hosting business by catering to the specific needs of web designers and taking a customer-centric approach to everything they do. Those often tough-to-please designers demand a hosting provider that they can trust to […]
