Posts Tagged ‘ccTLDs’

December ccTLD-of-the-Week

We’re bringing back some past favourites this month, plus discounting an obvious choice for the Christmas holiday week: .CX from the Christmas Islands.

December ccTLDs-of-the-Week:

ccTLD	Dates	Details	Cost/year
.ST	Nov 26 – Dec 2	Sao Tome and Principe	$13/year (normally $45)
.IM	Dec 3 – Dec 9	Isle of Man	$8/year (normally $15)
.LV	Dec 10 – Dec 16	Latvia	$15/year (normally $30)
.SO	Dec 17 – Dec 23	Somalia	$10/year (normally $20)
.CX	Dec 24 – Dec 30	Christmas Islands	$25/year (normally $35)

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 (normally $20)
.SE	Aug 13-Aug 19	Sweden	$13/year (normally $20)
.TO	Aug 20-Aug 26	Tonga	$35/year (normally $40)
.LU	Aug 27-Sept 3	Luxembourg	$18/year (normally $30)

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:

.ru – Russia
.hk – Hong Kong
.cz – Czech Republic
.no – Norway
.ro – Romania
.to – Tonga

The full list of TLDs along with pricing can be found on the Available TLDs page of our website. If you haven’t looked at that page lately, you’ll note that we’ve redesigned it to include more information about things like transfer rules, trades and redemption rules. We’ve also broken out pricing for third-level registrations where the pricing differs from second-level registrations.

TLD Reference Guide Updated

The handy TLD Reference Guide has also been updated with even more detailed information about the various TLDs you can sell – things like residency requirements, available terms and whether WHOIS Privacy is available is all detailed. You can grab that here (PDF format).

.COM.BR Added to OpenSRS

The flag of Brazil Starting today, resellers can add .COM.BR to the list of ccTLDs they can sell through OpenSRS.

Brazil is a big and growing market, so the addition of .COM.BR to the ever growing list of ccTLDs we offer is one we think will be of great interest to many of you. In fact, .BR is the most widely used domain for Portuguese language websites, outpacing even .COM in that regard. With a population of over 192 million people, Brazil represents a large market that is also quite technologically advanced.

.COM.BR domains do come with some specific requirements so to help you out with getting the extension added to your integration, we’ve prepared a special pull-out guide . It’s aimed mostly at those doing API integrations, but there’s some great information in there about some of the little things about .COM.BR that can sometimes be tricky. Download in PDF format.

Enabling .COM.BR in Search Results

.COM.BR is automatically enabled for all Resellers. Visit the Settings area for Domain Availability search in the Reseller Web Interface to enable .COM.BR domains in your search results.

Pricing

.COM.BR domains are priced at USD$22/domain year. You can see pricing for all the many TLDs we offer on our pricing page.

As always, our Reseller Support team is there if you have any questions about .COM.BR or any other extension we offer.

Exciting New Developments in ccTLDs

It’s been a busy few months for ccTLDs at OpenSRS. With so much happening, we thought it would be a good time to provide an update on all the good news.

.FR domains: fully automated and available to EU residents

One of the fastest-growing ccTLDs in our offering over the past several months has been .FR, the ccTLD for France. As a result, we have just wrapped up a major overhaul of our integration that will make the extension much easier to sell.

A number of improvements are now live, including:

Full provisioning automation: Fulfillment time for .FR orders no longer takes several business days. Instead, names are registered immediately.
Automated data collection: When placing an order, it is no longer necessary to provide relevant additional information in the order notes. Instead, these are now all added via the order form directly.
Expanded registrant eligibility: now any person or company based in the .European Union can register a .FR name, making it a viable extension for any person or business in Europe.

These, along with some additional changes to .FR, are now live both in the test and live environments. Please be sure to consult our documentation for additional information.

Now live: dozens of new extensions that are easy to integrate

Late last year we announced the availability of many new ccTLDs via our acquisition of EPAG Domainservices GmbH. Since the announcement, we’ve been hard at work iterating on our offering and adding new features, including:

More automated ccTLDs, more information

We’ve refactored many of the extensions we rolled out last year to no longer be asynchronous. Instead, the vast majority of our extensions now return immediate responses, instead of having to regularly check an order’s status. You can find out which extensions are fully automated using our new, handy ccTLD guide.

Even more extensions: .TW, .AG, .CO.IM

Taiwan, Antigua and Barbuda, and .CO.IM (a new addition to the several extensions we offer for the Isle of Man) are all new to OpenSRS this month. Like the other dozens of extensions we’ve introduced thus far, there are no additional data requirements.

Positioning a litany of ccTLDs

With the massive expansion of our ccTLD portfolio beginning late last year, we’ve now introduced 113 new second and third-level extensions – all from the same interface and API. We realize all these extensions aren’t for everyone, so here’s a look at how we recommend you approach them both internally and to your customers.

New European markets

The introduction of our new ccTLDs led to a number of new, popular European extensions. We recommend taking a look at .PL (Poland), .PT (Portugal), and .UA (Ukraine) at the very least.

The Americas

One of the regions we get asked to expand upon most these days is Central and South America. We’re pleased to now carry several popular extensions from the region, including .PE (Peru), .PR (Puerto Rico), and .UY (Uruguay).

“Specialty” extensions

Historically, we’ve categorized extensions like .CO, .ME and .TV as “specialty” extensions – ones that have purposes beyond only serving their regional markets because of their unique branding and usage abilities. We’ve now added several names which we believe fit into this category, as they have great potential as unique extensions and do not have any additional residency or data requirements:

.IM (Isle of Man), .SO (Somalia), .LA (Laos), .AM (Armenia), .FM (Micronesia).

Other new regions

Several other regions and extensions also feature prominently in our list of ccTLDs, including .JP (Japan), .MY (Malaysia), .IL (Israel), .ZA (South Africa) and .NU (Niue). All of these have already proven popular among OpenSRS resellers and are worth checking out.

You can see a full list of all our new extensions by geographic region here.

Although there have been a lot of developments regarding ccTLDs recently, we believe this is only the tip of the iceberg! Keep an eye on this blog throughout the year as we continue to add more extensions to OpenSRS.