As I write this post, there is an on going and highly distributed, global attack on wordpress installations to crack open admin accounts and inject various malicious scripts. To give you a little history, we recently heard from a major law enforcement agency about a massive attack on US financial institutions originating from our servers. We did a detailed analysis of the attack pattern and found out that most of the attack was originating from…
For the past 2 months, our Control Panel team has been busy building an all-new Dashboard for our Resellers. Today, after countless iterations, designing, re-designing, coding, testing and bug-fixing into the wee hours of the morning, I am extremely happy to present to you a fresh, and rethought Dashboard for your Control Panel. With this Dashboard we have optimized the home screen to provide essential data as well as crucial features that are used most…
2011 was a great year for us with the launch of some remarkable promos & long awaited products and features. To make sure that 2012 is even better, we’ve been hard at work to bring you some great products and promos in the New Year! Promos this quarter: .ME: We’re slashing our one year .ME Registration prices to $8.99 till the 31st of March, 2012! .ASIA: After a great response to the .ASIA promo we ran last…
I was speaking the other day to a bunch of folks from various Registries about some of my observations about Registrars, and thought I’d share them with you. We were discussing ‘101’ stuff like growth in volumes and tapping in to emerging markets (we’re based out of India and totally relate to the impact emerging markets can have). Something that stood out at that time was the largest players/Registrars in the world. The top 10…
Last week we added MakeMySite, our brand new web design solution, to our range of Product offerings. MakeMySite is a unique, white labeled, build-it-for-me, web design solution that comes with an easy yet detailed website design process that allows our web designers and your Customers to collaborate and create amazing websites. While creating this Product, we’ve taken a fair view of the web designing industry and tried to provide a web design solution that provides…
I have said this before – Registrars can make for good web hosts. In fact, we at RC always take our Hosting services quite seriously. Having said that, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not perfect, but we’re getting there. I can also state for a fact that you will see a lot of changes and additions to our Hosting services within the next 6 months. Last Saturday, was another step in the…
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…
Notification of the list of accessible ports on our Hosting Platform.
The .COM @ $7.39 and .IN @ $3.99 Promos have ended but there’s still great news for the month ahead. With Transfer-ins @ Cost and .IN @ $2.49 starting from the 2nd of November there is a lot to look forward to this month. Transfer-ins @ Cost This amazing promo has great potential to not only increase your Customer base but also help you manage your entire business from a single account. Like Marvin(Gossimer) mentioned,…
We are in the process of switching from the Transecute Payment Gateway to Paypal. This post contains a detailed FAQ on this transition. Do make sure to give it a good read. When will this transition occur? Effective Wednesday, July 29th ’09, our Visa/ MasterCard Payment Gateway page will undergo a revamp. We are in the process of switching Payment Gateways; which will include a move from the Transecute Payment Gateway to Paypal. Will…