OpenSRS has over 10,000 resellers in 100 countries who have sold over 10 million domain names and you’ll have full access to all their products and services including their market-beating pricing.

An example of how your domain name reseller Storefront could look

If you’re just getting started you can setup your own ‘Storefront’ – a fully hosted domain name sales and management website that will have you up and selling domain names in no time. You can sell every Global Top-level Domain (gTLD) and Country-Code Top-level domain (ccTLD) we offer as well as Premium Domains from the portfolios of our aftermarket domain partners. OpenSRS Storefront also allows you to offer domain and email forwarding, along with WHOIS Privacy. All at no additional cost to you!

All OpenSRS reseller accounts include full access to the OpenSRS API – a powerful set of integration tools that automate the provision of domain names, DNS, email services and SSL certificates.

Websites that are encrypted using SSL can be identified in several ways. Firstly, the prefix of their web address is usually “https://”, signifying that they operate over a secure server. Also, the website can be identified as secure by the fact that there is a padlock symbol in your browser’s status bar. If neither of these signs is present, then the website is insecure and it is not advisable to put sensitive personal information into that website as it may be possible that an unauthorised third party could obtain access to the data.

Protecting your website using SSL encryption is definitely a practice that we recommend to all webmasters who regularly ask their visitors to input sensitive information. Of course, the most obvious benefit to you as a webmaster is that it ensures that all of the data that your customers enter is safe, secure and inaccessible to anyone other than those who are authorised to have access to it.

Encrypting your webpages in this way ensures that you, as a webmaster, have peace of mind and know that the data provided by your customers is secure and protected against unauthorised access.

As well as the peace of mind for you, the fact that there are visible signs of how secure your website is means that customers will feel more comfortable. If they can visibly tell that your website has a layer of security protecting it, then they will be far more likely to input their details and thus they will be more likely to buy products from you online.

This in turn means that you will earn more money and sell more products, which is exactly what any online business wants. SSL encryption for your website will definitely pay for itself after a very short time indeed, making it a worthwhile investment for the security-minded webmaster.

Reputation is another aspect of your web presence than can be improved by adding SSL encryption. If your website asks people to enter payment details, then it cannot be reputable unless it is secure. A website that is clearly secure will instantly have a better reputation than one which appears to be  wide open for cybercriminals.

So to conclude, in this security conscience online age, SSL encryption is something that is definitely worth the investment for your website. Without the padlock symbol, potential customers will not have enough confidence to input their sensitive personal information into your website and thus they cannot purchase any of your products. However, the addition of encryption quickly puts their minds at rest and soon your SSL encrypted website will have the customers flying in.

It is a comprehensive library of information that enables both everyday people and governments to ensure that they have data and a means of contact for the millions of people who currently run websites that are live on the internet and, more specifically, those that are making money from online enterprises, much like you.

However, having all of your details in plain view to anyone with access to the internet does present very obvious risks to you. The first of these risks is obviously that having your full name, address and other contact information is a bit of an intrusion into your privacy. It means that anyone will be able to find you and that you could be subject to malicious communications of various kinds, as well as simply being consistently sent junk mail.

An example of this is spam programs that harvest email addresses directly from the WHOIS database in order to spread malware. As these addresses are provided in plain text, it is trivial for software to crawl the WHOIS database and obtain email addresses to send spam too. This is a great source of annoyance to those who often have to trawl through pages of spam to get to the emails they actually want.

Also, the fact that your home address is part of your WHOIS listing could open you up to, aside from junk mail, worse problems such as burglary. If someone can see that you are the owner of a website that makes a lot of money, then this makes you a prime target for burglaries and muggings. The fact that people who may see you as a target can access your location makes you very vulnerable.

Another issue that can arise from your personal details being so readily available is that you could be subject to consistent pestering from marketers. After harvesting your contact details from the WHOIS database, they can continuously send you both postal and email advertisements, perhaps even sending salesmen to visit you personally. All of these things contribute to diverting your attention away from your actual business and could cause you to lose a lot of money.

Every factor outlined above mean that being on the WHOIS database is very dangerous and can be detrimental to your business and your life in general. Many hosting packages, including those offered by simplewebhosting.co.uk, enable you to opt-out of being included on the WHOIS database in order to safeguard your privacy and your information.

As you can see, this is definitely a wise choice and will save you from a lot of unnecessary difficulties and wasted time. An opt-out means that you have more time to spend on what is important: ensuring that your business is successful and prosperous.

Any business worth its salt now has (or will soon have) an ecommerce system embedded within their online presence in order to provide an extra stream of sales for their company. A well-crafted ecommerce system guarantees you the ability to bring in far more sales than a shop on the high street would, also allowing you to reach a far wider audience eventually.

Unfortunately for the less technically able webmasters amongst us, ecommerce systems are rather complicated to implement. For those who do not have the technical expertise required to code and maintain such a system, it can be a difficult process and any system they design may be inadequate for its purpose. A lack of technological and design skills can lead to the system not functioning at all or being far too basic for the complex purpose that it needs to serve in order to be effective.

However, there are now huge numbers of professional developers who specialise in producing bespoke ecommerce solutions for businesses. These people have spent years honing the technical skills required to create the systems that sell your products to a massive online audience. They will provide you with an excellent, easy to use system that makes it easy for customers to buy from you and also find information about the products before they make a decision as to buying them.

An ecommerce system should contain a simple, yet attractive shopping interface whilst also maintaining comprehensive information about the product. This allows the user to ensure that they can access all of the information about the products on offer before they make a decision on whether to buy your stock or not. The more information you have, the better and products with more information are more likely to be bought as the user knows exactly what they are paying for.

A professionally designed ecommerce system should also contain an interface that allows webmasters to maintain the system themselves. Developers put these in so as to allow the users to keep the system up to date on their own, without having to have the developers repeatedly carry out updates. This ensures that the system can carry on being effective over time as the products and prices the company offers changes.

So to conclude, ecommerce systems are now massively important to any business that wants to maintain its sales into the future. Professionals are now located all over the internet that will ensure the quality of your system and so you should certainly go to one of these instead of trying to cobble together a system yourself.

Ecommerce certainly is the future and your company can be at the forefront of this wave.

There is absolutely no limit to the amount of people that you can access by having a website. In theory, anyone in the world can access your website and so that is a pretty much bottomless pool of customers that you have the potential to impress.

Compared to the costs of setting up an advertising campaign to target various people, simply making a website is amazingly cheap. The costs of web hosting and domain names (especially those that we provide) is competitively low and the running costs of the average website are absolutely tiny compared to running a large advertising campaign.

Advertising on the internet is equally cheap and easy. The same study from UKOM showed that around a quarter of the time spent online is spent on social networking websites. These websites are an absolutely perfect way to reach customers. Even simply posting a link to your page every now and then in a relevant location generates a bit of a buzz around your content and can get people visiting your site who would never have even thought about it otherwise. And all of this is completely free of charge.

Another advantage of a website is that it provides you with a place to provide a depth of extra information on your products. On promotional material, where space costs money, being able to simply add a web address for further information is a valuable concept and can save you a tonne of money in the long run, particularly if you print and distribute promotional material a lot.

A website also gives your company a personal edge, with email providing a far more personable means of contact than the traditional idea of writing a letter to a company that you wish to contact. This sense of humanity goes further if your business sets up a presence on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter as this gives an even more informal means of contact between customer and trader.

Websites have a huge number of potential advantages for a business, as stated above. The results of the UKOM study show that internet use in Britain is more prevalent than ever before, meaning that the use of the internet as a marketing tool is likely to increase as well. It has reached the point now where almost every company has some form of presence online and those that don’t have one are being left behind in the dark.

So don’t let your business be one of those that are left behind. Set up your website today with the help of us at simplewebhosting.co.uk.

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This is because it instantly identifies your company as a business that is based in the United Kingdom. For many people, buying from a company that is located in the same country as them gives a sense of peace of mind that they don’t get.

Having a .uk domain name means that a customer knows straight away that your company is based in the UK. Any customer resident in the United Kingdom will be instantly more attached to your organisation, knowing that it is based in the same country as they are.

Also, a .uk domain name looks immediately more professional than a domain name such as .biz or .me.uk. Automatically, the domain names .com and .co.uk look corporate and professional, meaning that customers are far more likely to buy from a company that has one of these two domain names.

Of course, if you are outside of the UK, then you should go for a .com, or the particular TLD for your country. The connotations of a corporate feel mean that the extra cost of a .uk domain name is definitely justifiable based on the money you will make from the corporate identity it provides.

Looking professional also means that you are trusted by customers, which is an excellent achievement for any company and means that you are almost guaranteed to earn money from these customers. They are far more likely to buy from an organisation that they feel they can trust.

As well as this, a .uk domain name has the advantage of being one of the first extensions people decide to guess at if they forget the extension of a website. If, for example, a customer remembers the “simplewebhosting” part of our domain name, but cannot remember the extension, then the .uk domain name is one of the first extensions that they will try, especially if they live in the United Kingdom.

So overall, there is a multitude of benefits to registering a .uk domain name for your business website. It helps to establish your company’s identity as a UK business and increases the likelihood of your website being visited and trusted, both of which are very useful factors when trying to establish a presence online.

Of course, this does not mean you are limited to just the .uk domain name. You could buy one, or even several more, other domain names and redirect them all back to one particular domain name, whichever one you want to use.

However, .uk is certainly a domain name that has its benefits and therefore you should consider it as the best possible choice of domain name for your UK-based company website.

Regardless of how secure you make your hosting environment, any sensitive information traveling over the web can be intercepted – unless you have a digital certificate.

simplewebhosting.co.uk is pleased to offer a full range of SSL certificates from the three leading SSL brands in the world – GeoTrust, thawte and VeriSign. Find out more about our SSL certificates.

This educational video from Common Craft, LLC and VeriSign explains the broad strokes of web site security in a way that anyone can understand.

SSL in Plain English

Of course, there is one simple way to avoid a predicament like this. Buy more than one domain name.

There are many advantages to purchasing various domain names. Firstly, as in the example above, it can be solution to the woes of weighing up which of the domain names are the best for you. Buying all of them means that you don’t have to worry and can redirect them all to the one that you decide is your favourite in the end. It is a simple way to solve what can be a very difficult problem for many webmasters, particularly those setting up a website for the very first time.

In addition, buying all of the different TLDs is helpful for securing the brand identity of your company. For example, if you were to buy only the .com domain name, that opens the field up for another organisation to purchase the .co.uk domain name. This means that they could be confused by surfers with your company, meaning that another business (who could even be your direct competition) could be benefiting from the traffic that is intended for your site.

Furthermore, buying up all of the domain names allows you to redirect all of the traffic to those other TLDs to the main domain name that your business uses. This makes your website easier for users to find as they may be unsure which TLD it is, something which ceases to be an issue if a large number of popular domain names are bought by the webmaster.

Often, a user will use the .com or .co.uk extension automatically when typing in a web address, so having both of these domain names in your permission is almost essential if you want to preserve the traffic for yourself. Not having these two domain names could mean that you lose traffic to the person who actually does own that domain name, meaning that they get the visitors that you originally had earned. The potential levitra order costs to your organisation are huge if business is continuously lost in this way.

So to conclude, it is advisable to buy as many domain names as possible for your website, ideally incorporating all of the popular TLDs, so as to ensure that all traffic is redirected to your domain name instead of that of a business with a similar name or, even worse, a competitor.

Mistakes cannot afford to be made when it comes to domain names, so when it comes to this issue, it’s a case of the more the merrier!