At the end of October 2013, ResellerClub became a US based entity and this move resulted in a change in the legal jurisdiction applicable to us. As a result of this change, we are no longer able to support partners and clients from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. These include Resellers, Sub Resellers and Customers. If any of the following actions are performed by users from OFAC Countries, the respective domain/hosting package will…
After the revised contract was signed between Verisign and ICANN to maintain and manage the .COM registry in 2006, the price for the most popular TLD in the world has increased by $1.35. Come January 15th, 2012, .COM prices will rise once again from $7.52 to $8.03 for every year of registration and renewal, making it a rise of $1.86 or 31% over four years. With this contract, Verisign has the authority to increase .COM…
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…
Introducing versions of our Reseller Program customized to local needs of different markets Over the last year we have undertaken a comprehensive project to customize ResellerClub’s Program to serve Resellers from different countries in the best way possible. To begin with we will be launching local programs for 7 major markets around the world. These new programs will include local websites powered by the same infrastructure we currently use for our Global program but with…
On Friday 6th May, 5 am GMT our servers were hit with an extremely heavy DDoS attack. We were getting about 120,000 queries per second on each of our servers (about 40 times the usual peak load). Snapshot of the increased traffic we received An early investigation revealed that the attack originated from China and we immediately placed our IPs under TMS guard (it filters the incoming malicious traffic, and lets the genuine traffic through,…
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…
It’s taken us a little time, but given the feedback that I’ve been seeing – we’re definitely on the right track! I’m talking about our Hosting Product that has quite literally become the ‘most spoken of’ topic among several RC communities. We’ve had tons of mails from Resellers inquiring about this new Unlimited Plan, and every little detail of the same. I completely understand – it’s a big decision for anybody, if they’re…
In light of recent developments, Jart Armin of HostExploit.com and Bhavin Turakhia, CEO of Directi have had an open dialogue and mutually agreed to release this joint statement clearing any previous misconceptions and reaffirming their common goal to combat abuse on the Internet. Here are few of the points they would like to jointly make – Directi and HostExploit recognize and confirm that they share the common goal of continuing to combat spam and abuse…
From Bhavin Turakhia’s Desk: There have been some articles and reports recently published by Garth Bruen at Knujon and by Jart Armin and James Mcquad at Hostexploit, that somehow link Directi with groups that support organized internet crime. The motives behind these reports are still unknown, but as an organization that prides itself in setting industry benchmarks in ethics and best practices, we are extremely shocked by these allegations. While I applaud the efforts of…
Last week we hosted our webinar on SuperSite customization. While there were issues with the audio (that rendered the last 10 minutes of the webinar almost useless), I think we at least managed to cover the SuperSite Admin Area at a conceptual level. Languages and Themes were explained along with everything that could be customized within it. Apart from that other aspects covered were about PSD files being made available within the Admin, how visitors…