Between 7:26 am and 8:05 am GMT on Friday, we faced an issue with the SSD drive failing on one of our mail hosting servers. Usually, we have set failovers to tackle such hardware failures, but in this particular case, due to a manual error, the IP was pointing to another server. This created further problems and reset the accounts as if they were newly created. When your account on the server is reset, the…
There have been a few hiccups with our webmail service over the past couple of weeks. Most of these issues were predominantly about the webmail taking considerable time to load. To balance the load, we decided to add a new server to this cluster. However, we faced a few setbacks after adding this server. The problems started early yesterday after we added a new server to the webmail cluster. This was done to increase response…
The .UK.COM Registry is running a great promotion where .UK.COM Domain Registrants can win £5000 and be named the best original idea or the best design, content and functionality for a business/creative Website. Entries for the .UK.COM Awards 2011 have already started pouring in with companies and individuals around the UK nominating their websites and others for these awards. About the .UK.COM Awards 2011: The .UK.COM Awards are a bid to recognize the best .UK.COM…
Founded by Marco Ferraro, Informática Ferraro has grown to become a leading hosting and Internet service provider to small businesses and individuals in Spain and we’re delighted to present them as our new Reseller-in-Focus. Having been a Reseller with us since 2007, Marco has gradually become more than just that. Always one to give us a fresh and honest perspective on all our developments (and even some not-so-good ones), we’ve come to value his opinion…
It has been a month since we began the .ASIA at $4.49 Promo and I’m very pleased to report an incredible surge in the number of .ASIA registrations. In fact, over the past month, we’ve even seen quite a sizeable number of our existing Resellers start to resell .ASIA Domains. In fact with over 780 million internet users, the Asia pacific Region has the largest proportion of people online and with a penetration rate of…
With .CA already live in the system we have received a lot of mails from resellers interested in selling .CA. With the awesome response that we received to this launch, we have decided to introduce an extremely competitive promo for .CA registrations, renewals and transfer-ins. We will be offering .CA for just $9.99 for all years of Registration and Renewal, all through November. While we’re not offering this promotion through the Promo engine, it’s going…
We’ve been seeing a lot of action on the Voting front and here are the current rankings (as on October 21st, 2010): Name Language Total Votes Rank Ronnie Jarrouj Arabic 1113 1 Fadi Odeh Arabic 296 2 Ashraf Aly Arabic 199 3 Anouar French 520 1 Benabdallah French 413 2 Richard French 272 3 Francisco Montero Spanish (Spain) 524 1 Adrian Spanish (Spain) 183 2 Juan Jose Spanish (Spain) 76 3 Paulo Lopes Portuguese 578…
.CA is the official ccTLD of Canada and the first .CA Domain was registered in January 1998. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the body responsible for managing the .CA Domain Space and under its guidance Registrations have seen a growth of 16% between 2007 and 2009. A .CA Domain is now considered necessity for anyone looking to highlight their Canadian Connection. Price and policy: Starting this Tuesday, we will be offering .CA Domains…
Over the past week, we’ve been flooded with emails from Resellers that missed our Webinar on the Introduction of Flexi-Hosting. If you did too, then read on. With the introduction of Custom Plans, we’ve completely revamped our Hosting offering. Apart from enabling Resellers to adopt a truly pay-as-you-go model, this new feature also allows you to customize your offering and provide a range of hosting options to your Customers. To understand this new feature and…
As one of the largest Reseller-Focused Registrars in the world, we partner with Resellers from over 240 countries. Naturally, with such a diverse clientele at hand, we realized that we needed to make our Products and Services as accessible to our Resellers and Customers as we possibly could. As a result, the Localization Partner Program was introduced in May 2010. A pioneering program, it is an on-going effort to support the translation of all system…