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Downime notice NetEarth One

Emergency maintenance of site and CP

LogicBoxes have deemed an emergency downtime (after everything went dark for 20 mins).

I will update this post shortly with more information.

Affected items:

Main website

Control Panel

API

 

Update :

Platform is back!

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NetEarth One

Increase in restoration fee’s for certain TLD’s

Dear Resellers,

The restoration fee will be increased by $10 for the TLD’s listed below on Friday 26th March 2010.

This is because it has been noticed that although a domain is restored and renewed, our charge from the registry and platform provider does not cover the renewal.

COM

NET

INFO

ASIA

CentralNIC Standard and Premium

Here are a couple of links about restoration of domains in the Redemption Grace Period.:

http://manage.netearthone.com/kb/servlet/KBServlet/faq601.html

http://manage.netearthone.com/kb/servlet/KBServlet/faq460.html

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Changes on the LB platform NetEarth One

Multi Year discounting

Multi Year Pricing for Customers

In the coming months LB will be introducing Multi Year Pricing; a feature that allows you to incentivize Customers to purchase Products for multiple years. This feature will be available to both you and your Resellers.

With the current set up, your Customers are charged the same amount regardless of the number of years the Product is purchased for. Using this feature, you will be able to set a different price based on the number of years the Product is purchased for and hence tempt Customers to purchase Products for a longer period. For instance, if you are offering .COM Domains @ $10 for a single year, you will now be able to charge a Customer $90 for a 10 year registration instead of a fixed fee of $100.

There are several advantages of multiple year purchases such as:

  • Greater Customer Retention: the tenure for which a Customer does business with you is greatly increased and thus gives you the opportunity to build Customer loyalty and drive renewals.
  • Greater Upselling Opportunities: with a longer tenure, you have that much more time to upsell your additional Products and Services and hence earn more off each Customer.
  • Greater Revenue Earned: through multiple year purchases, you can earn more on every Product sold and hence increase the revenue earned.

Customer Slabs:
To be able to integrate the Multi Year Pricing feature, LB will first need to modify the implementation for Customer Slabs. As part of this process, LB will be removing the ability to create new Customer Slabs in the Control Panel. This will be implemented between the 15th and 19th of March, 2010.
Resellers who have already set Customer Slabs will not be affected by this change as of now and their slabs will remain as is.

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Changes on the LB platform NetEarth One

Email hosting goes UNBRANDED!

 Completely Private-labeled Email Hosting (Discontinuation of ‘Mail.pw’)

Based on the feedback gathered from Resellers, LB are making their Email Hosting Product completely private-labeled once again. This change will be conducted between the 20th and 24th of March, 2010. The ‘Mail.pw’ branding will be completely removed and replaced with the white-labeled/private-labeled URLs listed below:

New URLs and Branding:

  • Webmail URL: webmail.<domain name>
  • IMAP URL: imap.<domain name>
  • POP URL: pop.<domain name>
  • SMTP URL: smtp.<domain name>
  • Email Hosting Control Panel: mailhostbox.com

Impact on Email Hosting Orders post the 20th:

  • New Orders: All new orders will be completely private-labeled.
  • Existing Orders using our DNS Services: We will migrate all existing packages to private-labeled packages between the 20th and 24th of March, 2010.

Existing Orders not using our DNS Services: For such orders, you will need to add a set of DNS records to avail of the private-labeled Email Hosting Services. We will send across the necessary information to the affected accounts shortly.

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NetEarth LLC NetEarth One

.UK Nominet Reseller Data Service Launch

Nominet will shortly be allowing the linking of domain name registrations to reseller information. This will allow the reseller information to be shown in WHOIS and also later this year in emails to registrants (from Nominet).

In preparation of this, please go to https://ukreseller.advancedregistrar.co.uk/, input your ‘ResellerID’ (number), ‘Username’ and ‘Password’. These are the same details used to login to your control panel.

This then loads your default “Support information” as per the domain control panel.

The reference number cannot be changed, however everything else can be. The defaults are already populated to save a little time, however feel free to change anything you want to.  Nominet has not stipulated what characters can be used, therefore for the “avoidance of doubt” please assume the following characters as acceptable; A-Z, a-z, 0-9, ), ( and a dash/hyphen (-).

Click Save details at the bottom to save your details for Nominet.  You can update this information any time you wish, by going back to the URL above and logging in. We do not store your password, we validate directly against the LogicBoxes platform.

If you have resellers, and you would like them to also have this feature (we would as it means it is branded to them) then please give them the above information.

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NetEarth One Promotions

.ASIA **Promotion Pricing**

New promotion pricing until the end August 2010.

This is applicable to NEW registrations only, NOT renewal or transfer and FIRST year of registration only.

So the pricing:

New registration of a .ASIA domain will be $9.95 if you setup your selling price in the Promo engine to be less than $19.95, more than that would mean a buy price of $11.95.

To setup the promo engine go here :  http://manage.netearthone.com/kb/servlet/KBServlet/faq1009.html

This promotion will AUTOMATICALLY end on 31st August 2010, at midnight GMT, please make sure you make a note of this date to remove the promotion if you are using a third party billing application.

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NetEarth One

.ASIA **NEW PRICING**

We have dropped our ASIA pricing to be more competitive in line with other reseller focused registrars!

New, renew and transfers are all treated the same:

 

Tier 1                  $13.95

Tier 2                  $13.49

Tier 3                  $12.99

Tier 4                  $12.75

Tier 5                  $12.49

Restore of $75 has not changed.

Please make sure you update your pricing on this.

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NetEarth One Registry maintenance - scheduled Uncategorized

Scheduled .com/.net Production Maintenance – 30 Day Notice

The .com/.net Production environment will be taken offline on Saturday, March 27, 2010 EDT (Sunday, March 28, 2010 UTC) for a scheduled maintenance.

 

Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010 EDT (Sunday, March 28, 2010 UTC)

Time: 2100 hrs – 2145 hrs EDT (0100 hrs – 0145 hrs UTC)

Duration: 45 Minutes

Purpose: Routine Maintenance

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NetEarth One Registry maintenance - scheduled

Scheduled Com/Net Production Maintenance – 2 Day Notice

Dear Resellers :

The Com/Net Production environment will be taken offline on Saturday, February 20, 2010 EST (Sunday, February 21, 2010 UTC) for a scheduled maintenance.
 
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010 EST (Sunday, February 21, 2010 UTC)
Time: 2000 hrs – 2045 hrs EST (0100 hrs – 0145 hrs UTC)
Duration: 45 Minutes
Purpose: Routine Maintenance

This maintenance will not effect any domains that are currently registerid.

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NetEarth One Registry maintenance - scheduled

Scheduled .Name Production Maintenance – 30 Day Notice

The .Name Production Environment will be taken offline on Saturday, March 13, 2010 EST (Sunday, March 14, 2010 UTC) for a scheduled maintenance.

 

Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010 EST (Sunday, March 14, 2010 UTC)

Time: 2000 hrs – 0000 hrs EST (0100 hrs – 0500 hrs UTC)

Duration: 4 hours

Purpose: Routine Maintenance