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Join us at the Parallels EMEA Partner Forum 2010
We are delighted to be once again sponsoring the Parallels EMEA Partner Forum after a very successful and fun show last year. We are hoping you can join us this year. Ben Reuss, our Business Development Manager (EMEA) will be in each city and looks forward to greeting you. The Parallels EMEA Partner Forum takes […]
Win a full conference pass to Web 2.0 New York
The OpenSRS team is gearing up for the Web 2.0 Expo New York, and we’d like you to join us! We’re going to give away two full conference passes (valued at $1745 each) to the folks who come up with the best captions for the photo below. Like our last photo caption contest, there will […]
Meet the resellers: DiscountASP.NET
Carving out a niche, then staying focused has been the key to success for web host and OpenSRS Reseller, DiscountASP.NET. That singularly focused approach meshed perfectly with OpenSRS and its consistent commitment to the wholesale Internet services market. The Pasadena, California-based webhost started out in 2003 as a shared hosting provider with a twist, offering […]
$179 GeoTrust EV SSL sale price is the new regular price
The GeoTrust EV SSL sale comes to an end today, but we’ve decided to make the lower price permanent. That means going forward, GeoTrust True BusinessID with Extended Validation (EV) will be $179 for one year, and $359 for two years (in US dollars). A complete price list for SSL products available to be sold […]
Educating customers and boosting sales
It’s sometimes easy to forget that domain names aren’t something that the average person is familiar with. Working in the hosting or Internet industry, understanding how different domain extensions work is just part of daily life. For those familiar with how domains are bought and sold, the concept of premium domain names and the domain […]
Enter our service guy postcard contest and become famous!
We recently decided that we ought to have some nice postcards to send to our resellers, but the problem is that we don’t have enough designs for them. In the spirit of community, we thought we’d reach out to you, our resellers, and ask for your help in exchange for the opportunity for your creativity […]
No hassle renewals at Hover
Here’s another discovery we made at Hover that you can consider implementing. Renewals were our number one support issue, accounting for 36% of support tickets opened. A lot of those calls and emails came from customers (or friends, relatives, colleagues and assistants of customers) that could not sign in to their account. So, we developed […]
GeoTrust is the SSL brand of choice for the top million sites online
A recent survey of SSL certificate use by Netcraft, referenced against the top million sites online (as tallied by Alexa), revealed that GeoTrust SSL certificates continue to be the most widely used choice of the one million top websites on the Internet. The comparison looked at the Alexa 1 Million and counted publically facing SSL […]
The OpenSRS quarterly for 2010-Q2 is now available
After the positive feedback we received from our first-quarter report, we’re excited to announce that our OpenSRS Quarterly for 2010-Q2 is now available for download. Have you found yourself wondering how your own performance indicators measure up against other OpenSRS resellers? Key performance metrics like renewal rates by quarter, new registrations and transfers in […]
.ORG surpasses 8.5 million domains
 The Public Internet Registry (PIR), the operator of the .org domain extension, announced in its January to June 2010 edition of “The Dashboard” that .org has surpassed 8.5 million domain registrations. The report highlighted a 7.6% growth in .org domains during the first half of 2010, doubling the growth rate of 2009. This strong […]
