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Being your customers’ trusted provider
Your customers choose you for a variety of reasons – maybe it’s a higher level of customer support or specific high quality services that you offer. Maybe it’s because they know and trust you or because you are a part of their local community. There is a real opportunity to be the trusted provider for […]

More than 100 new ccTLDs added
Today we enabled a huge number of new ccTLDs available through OpenSRS. A few months back we announced that we acquired the German registrar EPAG. The reason for the acquisition was that we wanted to significantly bolster our lineup of country-code top-level domains. Today’s release is the first round of new ccTLDs that we’ll add […]

.PRO domains now available
Today we added .PRO domains to the list of gTLDs available through OpenSRS. To celebrate the launch, we’re also offering a .PRO launch promotion providing substantial savings off the usual registration fee. From now until February 15, 2012, .PRO domains will be available with a registry cost of $1.99/domain year for new registrations (the regular […]

Premium domains work
A few months ago, we expanded our premium (secondary market) domain offering. We encouraged you to help your customers find the perfect domain by including premium domains in your search results using the OpenSRS API. We recognized this would require some front-end work. We recognized many of you still thought of a domain name as […]

.XXX is live
In the end it was delayed a bit, but General Availability for .XXX happened today at noon EST and the .XXX domain is now fully online. For any resellers who submitted pre-orders, you should see any successful orders in your account shortly. For those with Sunrise orders outstanding, you’ll see the first wave of successful […]

goMobi v1.5 now available
Over the weekend, our goMobi mobile website publishing service was updated to v1.5. This new version brings some significant new features and also some really nice enhancements and improvements to existing features. Here’s a run-down of the most significant changes that came with this release: New features: Enhancements: More information We’ve updated the goMobi marketing […]
Preorders for .XXX now available
General Availability (GA) for .XXX is on December 6th and we’re now taking your .XXX GA pre-orders through OpenSRS. You can get more information on how our pre-order queue works at our .XXX launch information page. On December 6th at 16:00 UTC the .XXX registry opens up registrations to anyone, just like any other domain […]

Trustwave MadLocks game update available
An updated version of the very fun and quite popular MadLocks game from Trustwave is available beginning today. You can search for it in the iTunes App Store or use the handy link below to go right there in your browser. MadLocks was originally introduced at HostingCon 2011 and very quickly became a must-have game […]

A Movember that would make Magnum P.I. proud
November is Movember month, an annual fundraising event where participants grow moustaches to raise awareness and funds that will help to eventually bring an end to prostate cancer, the #1 cancer affecting men around the globe. For the youngsters not familiar with Magnum P.I., the actor known as Tom Selleck has played a more recent role as […]

.XXX Landrush starts today
Today the Landrush phase of the .XXX domain extension launch begins. Landrush is a limited-time opportunity for those who didn’t qualify for Sunrise A, but want to secure a valued .XXX domain name and avoid the first-come, first-served risks associated with General Availability. The Landrush period runs for 18 days, starting on November 8, 2011. […]