This is to inform you that OrderBox will go through a scheduled downtime as per the maintenance window specified below: Date: Sunday, June 7th ’09 Start Time: 4:30 am UTC Estimated Downtime: 3 hours Affected Systems: Control Panels, API, SuperSite, PartnerSite Rest assured, this downtime will have no impact on your Domain Names and other services. These shall continue to function smoothly. During this maintenance, the following actions will be taken: Upgrading our database server…
We are pleased to inform you of two new updates in the SuperSite Admin Area: Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for indexing/crawling. A Sitemap is now available for the SuperSite, details of which can be found here. ResellerClub offers its Resellers the option to customize the order in which domain name extensions are displayed to their Customers…
We have spoken extensively about our new Email Hosting offering in our recent Blog Posts, which does away with the need to re-iterate the attractiveness of the newer parameters and the sales potential it has. In this blog post we will focus on two aspects; firstly, the infrastructure that powers our Email Hosting solution; secondly, the strategy that will help you bring in maximum growth. Our main objective behind the New Email Plan…
As you might already know, several OnlineNIC Resellers/Customers were facing issues moving their Domains out to another Registrar. As per their policy, OnlineNIC did not allow Transfer-outs which resulted in several Resellers having their Domains stuck there. After numerous complaints and ICANN itself having to step in, these transfer issues have now been successfully resolved! Any registrant with a transfer request will now be able to successfully complete the same by contacting their preferred registrar.…
In keeping with the latest Afilias anti-abuse report, we thought we would bring to your notice some rather interesting statistics. In its recently published Global Phishing Survey, Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG) stated that .INFO had the lowest phishing rates amongst the gTLDs measured in this survey. The Global Phishing Survey is said to analyze the APWG phishing attack repository and other related data sources comprising a comprehensive archive of phishing activity. The report…
This is to inform you about a thawte maintenance downtime scheduled for the 17th of May at 4.45 UTC. Please take note of the following details to ensure that your business remains unaffected. Details of the Downtime Window: Date: 17th of May, 2009 Time: 04:45 UTC – 10:00 UTC Estimated Duration: 6 hours 15 minutes Affected Systems: thawte Digital Certificates Implications: You will not be able to create New orders during…
A robustly configured DNS setup goes a long way towards ensuring that websites and other services function efficiently. We enabled Managed DNS as a Free service with a view to give users easy and enhanced control over their DNS setup – continuing with that effort, we have recently added 2 more resource records to this setup. AAAA Records – all about IPv6 The currently prevalent form of IP addressing is IPv4 (where…
This post is a reminder for the NameServer IP Change that we had announced in our previous blog article. As announced earlier, the IPs of our MARS NameServer were to change on the 18th of April. As a precautionary measure, we delayed the date of this change to ensure that none of our Resellers are adversely affected by it. However, further monitoring has revealed that some of our Resellers are still using the…
This is to inform you that the .CC and .TV Registries will be conducting their scheduled Maintenance Operations for 1 hour between 0100 hrs – 0200 hrs UTC on 8th May 2009. During this period, all existing Domains will continue to resolve, however, New Registrations, Renewals, Transfers & Modification Services will not be available. We urge you to plan accordingly to help minimize the potential effect of this Registry Maintenance on your…
At ResellerClub, it is our constant endeavor to help secure and fortify your business. Simple measures such as regularly changing your password can go a long way in protecting your business from the risks of losing sensitive data. Towards this end, we are resetting all user passwords across the OrderBox control panel as well as establishing a new password policy. At 05:30 UTC on 28th April 2009, all passwords will be reset across…