With the first set of New gTLDs now in General Availability, I wanted to put together a few thoughts around what this opportunity could mean for you as a reseller. The Opportunity for Resellers: No Need for Thin Margins: Every registry that we are working with is focusing on the value and the branding around their TLDs. An obvious strategy considering the need to differentiate and carve out a niche for their TLD but an…
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to various Hosting providers from around the world and the feedback I’ve received from many of them is that the current Domain Reseller model isn’t something Hosting Resellers are used to. In essence, most of them believed that our current system of signing up for a Reseller program in order to buy one VPS hosting package or a couple of Reseller Hosting packages is a little convoluted especially when it’s so easy to buy a Hosting…
Having launched in 2005, Byet Internet has grown to be one of the largest free web hosting providers in the world today. Over the years, Craig, Byet Internet’s CEO has been a trusted advisor and I’m delighted to introduce him as our new Reseller in Focus! We spoke to Craig about his foray into the Web Services industry as well as the unique business model on which Byet Internet operates. Below is his entire interview.…
The internet is abuzz with talks of the recent outage faced by Domain Registrar Godaddy. The outage was suspected to be because of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (commonly known as a DDoS attack) that targeted Godaddy’s DNS servers, affecting several websites as well as email services. (However, a recent statement by Godaddy mentions that it was an internal network error that caused the interruption in services) DDoS attacks are a fairly common occurrence…
Update (Jan 1 2017): We strongly recommend that you use ResellerClub Mods which offers a variety of modules to integrate your ResellerClub account with WHMCS and sell domains, hosting and more! This website has a Free whmcs module for basic integration for all domain reselling needs. Please note: The official ResellerClub module has been deprecated as we focus on robust product integrations and API options. Original post continues below: We’ve been keeping ourselves pretty busy here at ResellerClub, with…
Akamai Technologies recently released its ‘State of the Internet Report’ for Q1 2012. The report includes data gathered from Akamai’s globally distributed platform and contains insights on attack traffic, broadband penetration and mobile connectivity. It’s quite an extensive report and contains some interesting information on the internet as it is today. Here are some of the key highlights of the report: Internet & Broadband Penetration: The global average connection speed was 2.6 Mbps and the…
Last week, we added .PRO Domains to the list of TLDs we offer. All Resellers can now register and renew .PRO Domains at just $12.99 with an introductory price of $2.99! About .PRO: Launched in 2004, the .Pro TLD was earlier restricted to accountants, engineers, lawyers and medical professionals in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. However, in July 2008, the .Pro TLD was “re-launched” and the availability was extended to include…
We rolled out an all new .NET Promo this week where you can offer your Customers a free 6 Month Personal Hosting package with each .NET Domain! This opt-in promo is part of our efforts to get more people online. It focuses specifically on our Global, Indian and Turkish programs and provides Resellers that are part of these programs, a chance to gain more Customers and retain them longer. In fact, as some of you…
As you’ll find, most Hosting providers don’t provide Root Access with Reseller Hosting packages. While this is a common practice in the Industry there are certain functions which require root access that a user may need to conduct frequently. One such function is changing a site’s IP. To be able to let our users perform this function on their own, we’ve built a custom plugin with our WHM implementation that allows them to easily change…
We’ve rolled out Windows Reseller Hosting to all Resellers last week and I have to say we’re pretty excited about it. Our latest hosting product has received favourable reviews from several of our 600 Beta Resellers and I can’t wait to hear what you think about it! Fully equipped Reseller Hosting: This product comes with the most popular control panel for Windows Hosting i.e. Plesk panel and you will now have the ability to offer…