With the first set of New gTLDs now in General Availability, I wanted to put together a few thoughts around what this opportunity could mean for you as a reseller. The Opportunity for Resellers: No Need for Thin Margins: Every registry that we are working with is focusing on the value and the branding around their TLDs. An obvious strategy considering the need to differentiate and carve out a niche for their TLD but an…
Having attended several Industry events in the United States and Europe, we’ve long been championing a global hosting event for the Asian region. Held on the 9th & 10th of June at the Millennium Hilton, Bangkok, WHD.Asia, an extension of the WorldHostingDays held in Germany, was exactly the kind of event we were keen to be a part of. From ResellerClub, Minal our business expansion manager, Daper our China Business Manager and I attended the…
On the 23rd of May we launched a new promotion through which new resellers get .COM and .NET Domains at just $8.39 for a month from activation. The idea behind the promotion is simple: Give our resellers the best start possible! Anyone who has ever launched anything always hopes to start with a bang and that is exactly where this promotion comes from. The most popular extensions in the world at some of the best…
We are currently experiencing an unexpected disruption in services on one of our cPanel Hosting servers, which has led to a considerable downtime for websites on this server. Our system admin team is currently working to restore this server back to normalcy. For your understanding, here is an update on events up to now – About 1:30am GMT today, we encountered an issue with the cPanel hosting server cp-6.webhostbox.net, where the sites abruptly stopped resolving.…
Here’s the Voting Scorecard for Resellers in the running to win an iPad (as on November 4th, 2010): Name Language Total Votes Ronnie Jarrouj Arabic 2022 Fadi Odeh Arabic 296 Ashraf Aly Arabic 243 Anouar French 674 Benabdallah French 413 Richard French 381 Francisco Montero Spanish(Spain) 889 Adrian Spanish(Spain) 490 Joseba Mirena Spanish(Spain) 84 Miguel Barbosa Portuguese 655 Paulo Lopes Portuguese 608 Pedro Dias Portuguese 302 Rafael López Spanish(Latin American/Mexico) 414 Armando Ruiz Spanish(Latin American/Mexico)…
It gives us great pleasure to introduce Viviti Technologies Inc. as the new Reseller In Focus. Viviti is a unique start up that is backed by industry veterans, Bravenet Web Services Inc. Viviti is one of the early adopters of our recently launched HTTP API and are provisioning Domain Names and Email Hosting through our API to their global clientele. Company: Viviti Technologies Inc We Spoke to: Anna Love, Director (Business Development)Website: www.viviti.com Favorite Control…
There has been a Linux Platform hack gathering speed in the last few weeks which has already affected a couple of reputed Web Hosting companies in the industry. While there is no clarity on the exact method of the attacks, they seem to be targeting various plugins that might be part of the applications running on your Customers’ websites. Much like the Gumblar attacks around the same time last year, we suggest that you warn…
To accommodate the Registry price hike that was announced last year, will be increasing our prices for .COM and .NET Domains from the 30th of June, 2010 at 14:30 UTC. The new prices for .COM and .NET will be: gTLD Base Slab Slab 1 Slab 2 Slab 3 .COM $9.99 $9.39 $8.89 $8.39 .NET $9.99 $9.39 $8.89 $8.39 Important: These prices will be applicable from the 30th of June, 2010 at 14:30 UTC (time in…
.CO Landrush Pre-Registrations are now live! Launch Details: Pre-Registrations for the .CO Landrush will be available from the 15th of June, 2010. The .CO Landrush begins on the 21st of June, 2010. The Cost for a Pre-Registration will be: $227 – including an $8 non-refundable application fee. If there are multiple applicants for a particular Domain, an auction will be held between the applicants by the Registry/Auction House after the Landrush. Important: If the outcome…
ResellerClub, one of the largest web services providers in the world, launched its Localization Partner Program (http://www.resellerclub.com/localization) with a huge splash attracting 100s of signups in just a few days. ResellerClub recently opened up its control panels for translation and is inviting a select set of Resellers to work closely with the team to roll out translations in a host of languages. With interfaces available in Spanish, Turkish etc., ResellerClub has taken its translation efforts…