OpenSRS
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| Type: | Subsidiary of Tucows |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 1999 |
| Headquarters: | Toronto |
| Country: | Canada |
| Website: | www.opensrs.com |
| Blog: | OpenSRS Blog |
| Facebook: | OpenSRS |
| LinkedIn: | OpenSRS |
| Twitter: |  @OpenSRS
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| Key People | |
| Elliot Noss, President & CEO | |
OpenSRS is a domain names re-seller services division of Tucows, a company based in Canada engaged in providing domain name and other internet related services such as e-mail, SSL certificate etc. The company has a portfolio of more than 11 million domain names. [1]
Background edit
On January 2000, OpenSRS platform was launched by Tucows after the company received its accreditation from ICANN as a registrar on April 1999. The company started registering domain names under the .com, .net and .org domain space. The company added .ca (Canada) and .uk (United Kingdom), .tv (Tuvalu), .cc (Cocos), .us (United States), .cn (China), and .de (Germany) country code top level domain names (ccTLD]] as well as .info, .biz, and .name generic top level domain names (gTLDs) during the latter part of the year. In 2007, Tucows's wholesale reseller services division as OpenSRS Resellers.[2]
Services edit
OpenSRS offer the following services:[3]
- Domain Service- provides domain name registration for more than 100 TLDs.
- Trust Service- sells SSL certificates, website security (SiteLock and GeoTrust) and Truste Privacy policy plans.
- Publishing Service- offer goMobi, a website builder and hosting service for mobile phones.
- OpenSRS Offers- provides opportunity for its re-sellers to offer Google Adwords credits without additional costs
- Hosted Registrar Service (OpenHRS)- a cost effective solution registration infrastructure for registrars