From my role as Product Manager Domains, I love to start the year with an internal update to our team on what happened the year before with respect to domains and domain-related topics. As our company is spread over four countries which each have their own focus, such company-wide updates increase involvement. A few weeks ago, the question arose why we are not sharing this with our customers, and here it is!
Donuts has announced an extension of its domain blocking service that allows brand owners to give them better protection, and in some cases more cheaply.
Openprovider is always working on new accreditations in order to provide our customers with the best possible experience with respect to price and service. On the 6th of September, we will activate our own accreditations for .am, .cc, .fi, .tv, .us and .xxx; .cl will become active as soon as the registry releases its new registry system.
Starting from the 30th of August the transfer process for .ru and .рф domains are changing and will allow automated transfer via authorization code (or EPP code) as is done for most TLDs. Transfer operations will not require domain owners to provide any documents to prove ownership of the domain.
Openprovider is always working on new accreditations in order to provide our customers with the best possible price and service. On the 2nd of August, we will activate our own accreditations for .pl, .lt, .cx and .fm.
Running a platform like Openprovider's always creates tension between ever-extending functionality and maintaining usability. There are many features that we know about but that are rarely found by our customers. This is the third and final post in a series of three blog posts. Enjoy take 3 of the tips & tricks!
Being a trademark holder can be a tough job these days: many hundreds of new extensions equal many hundreds of new threats against your protected mark. Someone can protect his brand actively or passively, but in some cases it really seems to be on the back of the trademark holder. There’s one registry that promotes this to a whole new level…
Running a platform like Openprovider's always creates tension between ever-extending functionality and maintaining usability. There are many features that we know about but that are rarely found by our customers. After writing down 10 tips and tricks in a previous blog post, I found that there are many more. Enjoy take 2 of the tips & tricks!
As a wholesale provider we preferably do not deal with end users. We simply cannot help them in most cases because their agreement is with you, our customer. Exceptions are abuse cases, nonresponsive (sub)resellers or other (mainly legal) scenarios. However, even in those cases we first try to get them in touch with their direct provider.
In my last blogpost I described our unique position in the domain name industry. The question that arises next is if it makes sense to sell domains at cost price.The short answer is YES.
Throughout the years, we have performed hundreds of thousands of domain transfers. This has provided us with loads of experience, particularly on which obstacles are placed between the intention to transfer and the actual transfer. In this blog post, I want to travel with you through our developments we made to soften the pain and make bulk transfers as smooth as possible.
Our recent release of two-factor authentication is one more step in providing our customers tools to secure their Openprovider account. With the economical value of domain names and our other products continuously growing, it is important that nobody but the authorized persons have access to its management. This blog post lists the various security layers of Openprovider and provides you with information on how to use them.
In our previous blogs you have read about our view on the domain market. Foreseeing that the margin on domain names converges to zero, we have introduced our Memberships. This new,subscription-based price model guarantees a strong competitive position to the customers of Openprovider. Our brand promise is that you get your domain names – within ...
Since last year, more than 700 new gTLDs have gone live. In theory this produces plenty of new marketing opportunities. In practice it appears to be pretty difficult to sell many new domain names. Customers can often not see the wood for the trees. Yet, there are a number of more or less simple strategies, that with some preparation, could lead to good results.
A while ago Openprovider started promoting the so-called Flat Fee Packages. These packages have become extremely popular in a very short time. As the concept is quite unique, we have received many questions concerning it. In this blog post I will try to answer the most frequently asked questions.
