Blog Articles
How to retain customers and reduce churn
It’s really easy to think of a domain transferred away from your reseller account to another registrar as just that – a domain. But every domain is attached to a customer, and those customers often take more than their domain when they leave for a competing registrar. OpenSRS provides a few tools to keep you […]
Registry cost increases for .BIZ and .ORG domains coming April 1, 2011
It’s an unfortunate part of being a domain registrar that we have to let you know about price increases coming up as a result of announced increases by the registries which operate those domain extensions. Effective April 1, 2011 at 00:00:00 GMT, price increases for .BIZ and .ORG domains will go into effect at the […]
Contact Privacy video now available for download
Internet privacy is a big deal these days. Privacy breaches at various sites have exposed sensitive data like home addresses, phone numbers, email, and more. But for domain name owners, there’s another easily preventable privacy pitfall out there that could cause just as much headache as a major social networking site leaking their personal data. […]
Meet the Reseller: ISOCNET
OpenSRS Reseller ISOCNET is a Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky-based company which specializes in providing website design and development, web hosting, e-commerce solutions, and hosted email to small to medium businesses in the region. A reseller since 2003, ISOCNET uses OpenSRS to complete its suite of Internet services, and to help turn domain registration and management from […]
.nxt Conference offers help understanding impacts and opportunities in ICANN’s new TLDs
You’ve probably heard about New TLDs (top-level domains) – the single biggest expansion of the domain name system ever. With New TLDs, anyone will be able to apply for their own top-level domain extension – the part after the dot. It’s expected that the Internet namespace will grow from just 21 gTLDs (plus 250 or […]
Tips for selling and packaging goMobi to your clients
Many of the resellers we’ve spoken to agree that goMobi is a perfect complement to existing webhosting packages. Over the past couple of weeks, we had some fairly in depth discussions with interested resellers around how they might package and price the goMobi service. I wanted to share some of these learnings with you in this […]
Get your site mobilized & win
We’re giving away 100 absolutely free one-year subscriptions to the new OpenSRS goMobi service! The first 100 OpenSRS Resellers to create their own goMobi site through OpenSRS and tell us about it will be credited a full year of goMobi service – that’s a $30 value. All the details can be found here. And remember […]
Start the new year by telling us what you think
It’s that time again. The time when we ask you to tell us what you really think. Last year we started asking our resellers to participate in our Reseller Satisfaction Survey. It’s a really quick survey that poses an important question: “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague.“ Each quarter […]
Happy Birthday Creative Commons
Last week Creative Commons celebrated its 10th birthday. To help celebrate, Tucows issued a challenge to Creative Commons donors: do what you can to donate to the Creative Commons cause, and we’ll match contributions up to a total of $10,000. At Tucows, we strongly believe that openness drives innovation. For those of you not familiar with the […]
goMobi v1.2 now available – more languages, new features, branding suppression
dotMobi has updated the goMobi mobile website publishing service to version 1.2. In this release, you’ll find some new localization and translation options, along with a new event calendar feature and the ability to remove the goMobi branding at the bottom of the goMobi website (something a few people had requested). We’ve put together a […]
