Blog Articles
A world without the web: celebrating OneWebDay 2010
OneWebDay is a celebration held every September 22 with the goal of educating lovers of the Internet around the world about the importance of the open Internet. At OpenSRS, we put together a short video that asks the hypothetical question, “Without the Web, how would we…?” We had a lot of fun putting it together […]
Web 2.0 Expo NYC conference pass winners announced
Thanks to all who entered our caption contest for a pair of passes to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York later this month. We got together yesterday at the office and went over the entries to pick the best two. The happy recipients of a full conference pass to Web 2.0 Expo NYC are […]
How we put on a live how-to interactive broadcast to welcome new resellers
Last week we ran our very first interactive screencast with the goal of helping our new resellers learn the basics of the OpenSRS and our control panel interface. Pulling off a live video screencast, with multiple components was challenging and took some time to figure out. With the right tools and services though, I was […]
.MOBI renewal season
Every year, around the end of September and early October, a greater percentage of .mobi domain names come up for renewal. That’s because the .mobi domain extension launched beginning in September 2006 with a land rush on September 22nd, and general availability on October 11, 2006. Many people who bought their .mobi domain names around […]
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 […]
Holiday hours for Labour Day – Monday September 6
Where did summer go? Seems like it was just last week we were looking forward to the Victoria Day long weekend and the unofficial start of summer up here in Canada. Now here we are just a couple of days before it all comes to an end and the kids head back to school for […]
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 […]
