On October 12th, 2010, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will transition from the current Registry platform to a new platform. Along with the cutover to this modern platform, CIRA is also bringing in some changes to domain policies and procedures aimed at simplifying and standardizing .CA domains with the rest of the domain industry. […]
What's New
Price Drop on Geotrust True BusinessID Wildcard SSL Certs
I had lunch yesterday with a colleague from Tucows, who is , among other things, our wholesale supplier of SSL certificates from Geotrust. I mentioned we had a customer who wanted 10 True BusinessID Wildcard SSL Certs and he said he would check on the possibility of getting us a price break on that order. […]
.CO domains in, .TEL domains are out.
As is customary here when it comes to new top-level domain rollouts, we’ve added support for .CO domains now that the registry has launched real-time live registrations. As we mentioned in previous posts, we are recommending that if you operate a serious net presence under .COM, you should if you can pickup the corresponding .CO […]
HST Comes into effect tomorrow in Canada
Starting July 1st we will be replacing the current GST with the government mandated HST for the following provinces at the following rates: Ontario: 13% British Columbia 12% Nova Scotia 15% Newfoundland 13% New Brunswick 13% Quebec 12.875% The way our systems will calculate this is by looking at the value of the “province” field […]
Greylisting control now available
Like most ISPs, we’ve been employing the tactic of greylisting to cut down on the amount of spam and viruses we get and forward to our customer email addresses via their mailmaps or backup mail spools.
Instant DNS Activation & force 301 headers on URL forwarding
Following on the heels of our earlier unveiling of tweet2txt, I thought I’d mention 2 new features of the new platform that I think our members will agree are long welcome additions: Instant DNS activation for new domains and optional 301 Redirects for URL forwarding.
