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Meet our reseller: Brain Host
Akron, Ohio-based Brain Host is a great example of a newer entrant in the hosting space that is succeeding thanks to a bit of a different approach. With an extensive background in marketing, the founders of Brain Host recognized that their customers were looking for a website rather than hosting. By tailoring their own marketing […]

Meet our reseller: Hoster.by
We’re back with another OpenSRS Reseller profile – this time we talked to Hoster.by, the largest hosting provider in Belarus. We’re happy to be working with Hoster.by who came to OpenSRS about a year ago and have been growing their business quite rapidly. They not only provide hosting services to individual, small and mid-sized and […]

Come meet us at Parallels Summit 2012 APAC
Greetings! OpenSRS has made some pretty amazing inroads into Asia for a while now and I wanted to give everybody a better idea of what we are keeping ourselves busy with. My name is Caleb and I handle business development for OpenSRS here in Asia based out of Singapore. Some of you may have already […]

Rethinking SSL marketing
I’ve talked in the past about starting the sales process for SSL certificates “upstream” – that is, offering the appropriate certificate to your customer after assessing their needs, rather than immediately going to a lower cost domain validated certificate. You can have a look at that post if you missed it, but the basic premise […]

On-demand webinar: hosting industry market overview (mid-2012)
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a webinar for our resellers with Phil Shih from Structure Research. He gave his “state of the hosting industry” presentation and got us all up to date on the trends that are shaping the industry as we pass the mid-point of 2012. Like all of our webinars, […]

Free webinar with Phil Shih from Structure Research
I’ll be hosting a free webinar this Thursday, August 9 at 11:00 A.M. (EDT) with Phil Shih from Structure Research. If you weren’t at this year’s HostingCon conference in Boston, then this is a great opportunity to get informed and educated about the state of the hosting industry as we move through the second half […]

ccTLDs of the week for August
The ccTLD of the Week promotion continues on with great deals. Here’s what we have planned for August. If you’ve been waiting for a particular ccTLD, let us know in the comments and we’ll see what we can do. Upcoming ccTLDs of the week: ccTLD Dates Details Cost/year .CZ Aug 6-Aug 12 Czech Republic $12/year […]

Happy 2nd birthday, .CO!
Last week marked the two-year anniversary of the relaunch of the .CO domain extension. It was July 20, 2010, when .CO officially set its sights on becoming the go-to web address for the world’s entrepreneurs, innovators and next great businesses. Although there was some skepticism as to whether the world needed yet another domain extension, […]

HostingCon 2012: profiting from changes "right of the dot"
Given the mainstream media coverage, chances are you’ve heard of the changes coming to the domain name space over the next two years. Thanks to ICANN’s decision to vastly expand the number of domain name extensions available, there’s a good chance we’ll have an entirely new view of how domain names are used as Internet […]

40+ new ccTLDs added to OpenSRS
We’ve added another batch of ccTLDs to OpenSRS today. That brings the total to well over 100 ccTLDs available for you to sell. Some of the more popular extensions in this round: The full list of TLDs along with pricing can be found on the Available TLDs page of our website. If you haven’t looked […]