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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 also be some great prizes for honourable mentions, and you can enter as many times as you like.

Here’s how to enter

Think up a really witty/sentimental/unique caption for the photo above
Tweet your caption to @OpenSRS, along with the hashtag #w2e
We’ll announce the winners on Twitter and the blog around September 13

Some tips

Anyone can enter, as many times as they like
Don’t forget to use the #w2e hashtag in your entry
It helps to follow @OpenSRS on Twitter – it’s much easier for us to get in touch via DM if you win

The prize

The best two captions will win a full conference pass to Web 2.0 Expo New York, which takes place September 27-30, 2010. This gets you access to: Monday workshops, all sessions and keynotes, lunches every day, the sponsor pavilion, and all networking events and parties.

There will also be some great prizes for the runners-up.

We look forward to seeing your entries!

The results are (almost) in!

Several weeks ago, we sent out an email asking for our resellers to help us improve our level of service by filling out a short survey. Thanks to everyone who participated – the response rate was great! Although we’re still crunching the numbers a bit, we’re getting some valuable insight from the survey responses, and we’ll be sharing some of that with you soon.

In the meantime, we’d like to congratulate Curtis Hays, our lucky reseller whose name came up in the draw to win an iPad! Curtis will be receiving his new toy shortly!

We really do value your input, so keep an eye out for our future blog post where we’ll share some of what we’ve learned from the survey results.

Holiday Hours: Victoria Day (May 24)

Happy Victoria Day from the OpenSRS team! We’ll be closed this Monday May 24th for a long weekend.

Our Technical Support team continues to be available 24/7 to assist you.

Please note that during this closure, there will be:

No orders or requests processed for the following TLD’s: (.at, .fr, .ch, .li, .it, .dk, .com.mx)
No special processing for .ca (registrant transfers, conflicting and municipal registrations) or .eu/.be (redemptions).

Here are the hours by department:

Technical Support - Regular hours

Payments - Email support: payments@opensrs.org

Compliance – Closed May 24th (Monday)

HostingCon 2010 is coming up!

Service Guy at HostingCon 2009

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a full year since HostingCon 2009, but HostingCon 2010 is only two months away, and the early-bird registration is now open! If you’re not familiar with it, HostingCon is the largest gathering of hosting professionals in the world. This year it’s in Austin, Texas, and OpenSRS will be exhibiting there! Director of Domain Services Adam Eisner will also be presenting a session titled “The Untapped Growth Opportunities in Web Hosting“.

For more information about this event, visit our events page. You can also register for HostingCon 2010 here, and if you use the early-bird code OpenSRS2010 during registration, you’ll save up to $60! This code expires May 31, so hurry!

Hope to see you there!

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Wrap-Up

Last week some of the OpenSRS team headed out to San Francisco to attend the Web 2.0 Expo. This was a new experience for OpenSRS – it was our first time sponsoring this show, and we were able to meet a lot of new folks in the social media space. It was great to converse with people who hadn’t considered (or hadn’t explored fully) adding domain sales to their business. It was fun to introduce ourselves, and explain what we do at OpenSRS.

When we weren’t at the booth talking to the large crowds of people in the exhibition hall, we dropped into some of the great sessions going on at the Expo. Between the four different ‘tracks’: Design & User Experience, Social Media Marketing, Strategy & Business Models, and Development, there was a wealth of knowledge, and something for everyone. There were also some influential keynote speakers from companies such as I Can Has Cheezburger, Smule, and TED Conferences.

My Name is URL

Q&A with Ken after his session
The Web 2.0 Expo was also exciting for us because in our sponsored session Ken Schafer, EVP Products for OpenSRS, presented for the first time “My Name is URL – Namespaces & Revenue Models”. This presentation looked at the importance of namespaces as online identities, and encouraged Web 2.0 companies to consider unique and meaningful namespaces as an innovative way to enhance user experience and increase revenue. This session was so well-received that we are repeating it in an upcoming webinar on May 27th! We’d love to have you join us if you missed our presentation or wanted to invite some of your other team members.

Our OpenSRS Service Guy also made an appearance – he was the hottest swag giveaway of the show! There are some pictures of him on Flickr, and we expect many more to pop up over the next while as the attendees post their photos.

So we’d like to thank everyone that we met at the Expo, as well as everyone that was involved in helping make Web 2.0 Expo a great success for us. We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!