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By: Ben Lucier on December 17th, 2010
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Happy Holidays from the OpenSRS team!

Most of our offices will be closed from the afternoon of December 24, 2010 through to January 3, 2010. We’ll be back in the offices on January 4 ready to serve you in the new year. As always our dedicated team of Technical Support reps continues to be available 24/7 to assist you.

Here are the hours by department:

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, .mx)

Happy Holidays to you, your colleagues and your families during this holiday season and the new year!

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By: Ben Lucier on December 8th, 2010
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The annual report for .INFO was released today and for anybody interested in .INFO, or domain names in general should find it an interesting read.

The report shows that in 2010, the top-level domain (TLD) grew nearly 30% to more than 6.8 million domain names registered, holding it in place as the #1 new TLD ever launched.

From the report: “.INFO remains the seventh largest top-level domain on the Internet today, out of more than 270 today TLDs on the planet.”

For those who sell .INFO domains, the report also contains a number of great examples regarding how online businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations are using the TLD as well as interesting stats that link .INFO registrations to real world events, such as the earthquake in Haiti and the BP oil spill.

The full report is available at the .INFO website.

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By: James Koole on September 27th, 2010
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Tags: w2e, Web 2.0 Expo
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A bunch of us OpenSRS’ers are in the Big Apple this week for the New York edition of the Web 2.0 Expo.

We’re bringing the OpenSRS story to New York over the next couple of days. Drop by and say ‘hi’ if you are in the sponsor pavilion – we’re in booth 210. You can’t miss us – just look for the friendly Service Guy banners and smiling faces.

Learn about a proven revenue stream!

Drop by for a chat – we’d love to tell you about OpenSRS, how our approach to wholesale domain registrations, SSL certificates and hosted email is different, and how we can help your business with a proven revenue stream.

This is our first time sponsoring the NYC version of Web 2.0. We had a great time at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco in the spring, and met tons of great people and introduced a bunch of them to OpenSRS for the first time.

If your already a reseller, make sure you stop in as well – we’re always happy to meet our customers face-to-face and to find out how we’re doing and, of course, how you’re doing!

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By: Ben Lucier on September 24th, 2010
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The Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA), the governing body that maintains the dotCA domain registry held its annual general meeting and Symposium in Toronto this week.

CIRA’s President, Byron Holland described the relentless change on the Internet, year after year and the impossibility to predict that change. CIRA operates in a 100% uptime environment and has to be able to adapt and work in that kind of environment. A lot of changes have happened with the Registry over the past ten years and Byron committed his team will continue to make changes to improve the professionalism and operations of the Registry to ensure CIRA can adapt to the future needs of the Internet for Canadians.

In addition to panelist John Demco sharing a brief history about the Canadian Internet and a history of DNS from its original author, Paul Vixie, keynotes were delivered by marketing and branding experts, Terry O’Reilly and Mitch Joel,

Mitch and Terry delivered some great insight about the changing landscape of Internet marketing:

Terry talked about the importance about telling your story and the value of Canadian companies embracing a dotCA domain name. There’s a reason travelers sew the Canadian flag on their backpack– people like dealing with Canadians. The same can be true for businesses operating online in Canada.

Mitch, author of the best selling book, Six Pixels of Separation delivered on his promise of some crazy statistics which showed that clicks to banner ads have dropped more than 50% in the past year and grandparents than high school students are on Facebook.

The event was webcast and we’ll share the link once the archives are online. To learn more visit the CIRA Annual Report 2010 home page.

On a related note, the CIRA Board of Director election is also underway, so if you’re a dotCA member, we encourage you to review the candidates and participate in a process that can help shape the future of the dotCA.

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By: Mou Mukherjee on September 9th, 2010
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Tags: Parallels EMEA Partner Forum 2010
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Ben Reuss, OpenSRS

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 place in six locations across Europe from October 12-28. It is great opportunity to learn how to leverage Parallels technology to enable new Cloud Services, and how to become a “one-stop” shop for customers.  These are all one-day events followed by a networking cocktail hour.

Here are the cities and dates:

• Munich (October 12)
• Amsterdam (October 14)
• Madrid (October 19)
• Warsaw (October 21)
• Paris (October 26)
• London (October 28)

Registration for this event is free, so come out and say hi. Visit our events page to learn more or to register.

The picture of Ben (above) is from one of the events last year and is courtesy of the WHIR. You can also check out some of our photos on the OpenSRS Flickr stream.