Author: Neha Mestry

Neha is the face behind the entire content strategy on our blog. While perfectly defining the word ‘reserved’, she can make you a doodle for anything possible. Any. Thing. Ever.

Articles, Events

We’re Attending ICANN60 | Abu Dhabi!

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After Copenhagen and Johannesburg, the ICANN fraternity is all set for ICANN’s 60th Annual General Meeting, taking place in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi. The meeting will commence on October 28, 2017, and will conclude on November 3, 2017, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC).

The primary focal point of all ICANN meetings is to showcase ICANN’s work, in terms of policy formation and revisions, and keep all the global internet players updated about the same. In addition to this, these annual meetings also provide a great platform to foster engagement between the ICANN board, key stakeholders and the members of the industry.

Announcements, Articles

Supersize Your Web Presence Business

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“Would you like some fries with that?”

The classic question that makes each one of us fall into the cross-selling trap!

Essentially, Web Hosting resellers like you can make the most of this technique because there already is a strong appetite for value-added services in the market. However, you must have the broadest assortment of products to offer because you cannot cross-sell if you don’t have enough products that intersect at a common point of requirement. There are a lot of high-margin web presence products which can be “served on the side” along with Web Hosting.

The first item on the menu has to be Domain Names as they bring the promise of customer stick-ability; something that Hosting plans alone cannot achieve. Next on the list is Collaboration Tools. Owing to an increase in the number of SMBs, the Cloud-based email category is growing at an exponential rate. Next will be DIY Website Builders. Websites still continue to hold their prominence over lazier options like social media pages. As a result, DIY Website Builders make for another lucrative offering. Just like dessert, we saved the best one for the last – SSL certificates. Cyber attacks such as Petya, Locky and Wannacry have made many website owners really want to cry. Offering SSL certificates will ensure that your product bundle is as wholesome as a multi-course meal.

Announcements, Articles, Industry News

Locky Ransomware: The Saga of Ransomware Attacks Continues

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August saw a new wave of spam emails being circulated with variants of the Locky ransomware. Reportedly, over 23 million emails of this nature have been sent under common subject lines such as “Please print”, “Documents”, “Scans”, “Photos”, “Pictures” and “Images” in just 24 hours. The perpetrators of this menace have been demanding a ransom of half a bitcoin, which is presently equivalent to $2,150, to install a special software which is supposed to be the “Locky decryptor”.

What is Locky?

First released in 2016, Locky is an email-based ransomware malware which is delivered through email attachments in the form of a .zip file, fake links to Dropbox locations and even fake voice mail messages. These files contain malicious ‘macros’ – a virus that is written in a programming language which is embedded inside a software application. What basically happens is that the user opens this attachment and finds a block of meaningless text. This text consists of a sentence that says – “Enable macro if data encoding is incorrect,” a social engineering technique. If the user opens these attachments, his/her machine becomes fully encrypted, leaving all information completely inaccessible.

Preventive Measures

Followed by WannaCry and Petya, Locky is touted to be one of the largest malware attacks in the second half of 2017. The threat of this malware seeping into the corporate networks is still looming over our heads and here’s what we can do to prevent it from crippling us:

Events

Meet Us at WHD.usa 2017

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The WorldHostingDays fraternity is heading to Las Vegas for its 4th international conference of the year – WHD.usa 2017.

Having started out as a conference which laid heavy focus solely on the Web Hosting industry, WorldHostingDays has gradually evolved and grown into a forum that addresses the internet technology industry and culture at large.

Our industry has been stirred by a lot of technological developments in the last few years. DIY website builders is a shining example which belongs to this pool of developments. The need to have technical knowledge and coding abilities is no longer a prerequisite for building a website. Drag-and-drop website builder giants such as Weebly, Sitebuilder.com, Impress.ly, etc. are enabling the not-so-tech-savvy lot to build professional-looking, intelligent and responsive websites in a jiffy, by themselves.

Announcements, Articles

Save BIG With The BIG Hosting Sale!

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Winter is here and the seven kingdoms are busy fighting for the throne. Sadly, in this case, only one king (or queen?) will win the Iron Throne. But we have something in store which will make ALL you resellers feel like winners!

Make way for The BIG Hosting Sale – with up to 30% discount on Shared Web Hosting (all servers) and Reseller Hosting (US servers), you can save BIG this August. We have over 50 hosting plans starting from as low as $0.75 and 100+ TLDs with active promos. You can either resell these products at reduced prices or add a heavy markup and sell them at non-promo rates – either way, you save big and earn big! 

The BIG Hosting Sale!

With plans starting from $0.75, here’s a quick summary of all the specifications that make our Reseller and Shared Hosting packages more compelling than the rest in the industry:

  • SHARED WEB HOSTING 
    • 4 flavours available – SDH Linux, SDH Windows, MDH Linux & MDH Window
    • Servers located in the US, India, UK, Turkey and Hong Kong
    • Unmetered Website Disk Space & Data Transfer
    • Unlimited Email Accounts with Advanced Spam/Virus Protection
    • Add-on Dedicated IP
    • Free Reseller Control Panel for Finance, Billing & Provisioning
    • Free DNS Management
    • HVAC & Fire-Detection Systems
    • 30-day Money-back Guarantee
    • 24×7 Phone, Chat and Ticket Support
    • *Plans start from $0.75
  • RESELLER HOSTING
    • Servers located in the US, India, UK and Turkey
    • Unmetered Bandwidth & Disk Space
    • Unlimited DB/FTP/Email Accounts
    • Multilingual
    • Complete Administrative Control
    • Robust Architecture with 99.9% Uptime
    • 30-day Money-back Guarantee
    • 24×7 Phone, Chat and Ticket Support
    • *Plans start from $7.99

TLD Promos

Apart from Web Hosting, we also have 100+ exciting promos on domain names. The latest additions to our TLD promo list for this month are:

TLD Promo Price
.BIZ $1.49
.ME $3.99
.WALES $1.99
.CYMRU $1.99

Please visit our promos page to know more about all the other TLDs that you can resell at discounted rates throughout this month.

Over to You

Be a part of our Big Hosting Sale and set your cash registers ringing! The sale will be active from August 1 to 31, 2017 and we hope you make the most of it. So make sure to get in touch with us today so that we can sign you up as soon as possible!

Happy Selling!