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Sep 21, 2006  Free Privacy Service for domain names registered with us.

A Free Domain Name Privacy Service is launched for any domain name registered through Sibername.com.

Please read the procedure details through our knowledgebase.

Sep 20, 2006  Secure your .MOBI Domain name - Pre-registrations start today...

We are pleased to announce that we will begin accepting pre-applications for the
Landrush period for .MOBI Domain Names starting from today.

The .MOBI Landrush begins on 26th September 2006.

You can increase the chance of securing your domain name in MOBI extension by
pre-registering for the domain before the Landrush begins.

.MOBI follows a simple idea - with 4 times as many Mobile Phones as there are
PCs, .MOBI is sure to be the '.COM' of the Mobile Web.

As a Sibername.com customer, you will be able to register .MOBI Domains at the
lowest rates in the industry - �21.45 (British Pounds) through our recently
launched British web site Sibername.co.uk only.

What's more, with us you have a greater chance of getting the .MOBI Domains that
you want, as we will submit your application through the queues of 10 different
Registrars - the largest any service provider will offer! We encourage all our
customers to actively pre-register their domain name for the new TLD .MOBI in
this Landrush period and make the most of this unique opportunity.

for more details.

Sep 3, 2006   Free website for domain name customers with Sibername.com

Sibername.com, a leading Canadian registrar, accredited by both ICANN and EURid, has recently started offering a free two-page websites to customers purchasing domain names from Sibername.com

�Registrants can take advantage of this offer and create a 2 page website with an additional Macromedia Flash introduction page using our WebSiteMatic Light software. Alternatively, registrants can forward their domain elsewhere free of charge.

WebSiteMatic Light is the award-winning leading online website creation software. Both simple and powerful, this software allows users to create their own, professional website in a matter of minutes. Sibername.com's free offer means that users can create their own website for the price of the domain registration fee. Interested parties can login to http://www.sibername.com/hosting/demologin.php for a demo of the software.

April 25, 2006   Sibername.com Boasts Successful .eu Launch

Also announced the forthcoming offering of registration services for domains unavailable through land-rush due to pending sunrise applications.

Sibername.com , an ICANN accredited registrar and hosting company, announced that on .eu launch day, April 7th and following days, it registered over 3000 .eu domain names for customers.

The company said that over 1.5 million .eu domains have been registered since it's inception on April 7th and analysts expect the extension to become second to only .com. Sibername.com is a EURID accredited official registrar of the .eu domain.�The company�announced that of the 8000 land-rush applications they received, they successfully registered over 1300 of these domains for their customers.

Sibername.com also announced that they will be offering registration services for some domains unavailable through land-rush due to pending sunrise applications. They expect this service to go live in June.

March 27, 2006   Free pre-registration for .EU domains from Sibername.com. Successful registrations only �10.39 thereafter

March 27 th , Ottawa, Canada; Sibername.com, a leading Canadian registrar and hosting company has reinstated it's commitment of being Canada's number one registrar by offering .eu domain registrations.

Interested parties can pre-register their domain name for free under Sibername.com's offering and if successful in their bid to obtain the domain, registrations will be processed on April 7 th 2006 under the �Land Rush� program offered by EURid, the agents managing the .eu registry.

Successful registrations cost �10.69 per year (approximately $15.00 CAD) and customers are offered the option of protecting their privacy by using Sibername.com's UK division for registrant details.

Interested parties can visit www.sibername.com/eu to pre-register their desired .eu domain name for free. Sibername.com will only charge those who are successful in obtaining their desired .eu domain name.

With over 300,000 registrations under the �Sunrise' registration program for trademark holders, EURid is expecting several million registrations to be made on April 7 th , underlining .eu as one of the leading TLDs in use in the world.

Sibername.com, based in Ottawa, Canada, is one of Canada's leading ICANN accredited domain registrars and web hosts, offering registrations for over 20 different TLDs and a variety of web hosting packages aimed at both home and business users.

Remember, pre-registrations all go through on April 7 th 2006; April 8 th may well be too late!

Mar 15, 2006  We are now an ICANN accredited Registrar.
Nov 16, 2005 We have started accepting .EU Internet Top Domain Name pre-Registration applications. Click here for more information.
Nov 10, 2005

We were at the Ottawa Chambers of Commerce Business after hours trade show. It was a good opportunity for us to meet our existing clients and introduce our Agent Program.

sibername.com

From left to right: Umut Ozerkan, Bulent Turkoglu, Ernie Keefe, Emre Sersan

November 3, 2005

We have added new tutorials and updated the outdated tutorials on page http://sibername.com/support/tutorials.php

- New WebSiteMatic tutorials
- Mambo CSM tutorials
- Configuring different email clients
- Using Dreamweaver
- Using SmartFTP
- Uploading by FP2003
- Using Cpanel with X2 Theme

 

September 26, 2005 We are happy to announce our long-waited agent program, which will help you to earn money from your referrals.

As an existing Sibername customer, your account is enabled for the agent program and you can start using the agent program features any time you like.

With this program, you can earn 40% agent commission from the sales generated by your referrals. You will also earn 20% of the renewal payments made by your referrals. This will continue as many years as your referral renews their services. And also this is for any service they order during their account. s life span with us.

You will be able to monitor your account balance grow through the agent program
interface at http://www.sibername.com/agent

WORD of MOUTH REFERRALS:

All our customers have a static agent license code assigned to their account.

You can get this code from your agent interface at http://www.sibername.com/agent.

You should hand this code over to a person that you refer to us.
You should ask him to use this code in the license code field during his or her application.

Your referral has to enter this code only once. Once this code is entered, our agent system will assign you as the agent of this new client. Any service ordered or renewed by this new client will add commission to your account balance automatically.

MARKETING THROUGH YOUR WEB SITE:

You can use our banners on your web site to gain referrals from your web site visitors. Please login to the address http://sibername.com/agent/banners.php to access to the html code with your referrer ID. You can use any of these banners.

We would recommend using the banners on a page where you have more visitors.

If you are already using our affiliate banners, you can switch to agent program from affiliate by simply replacing the banner code with the one you can get from link http://sibername.com/agent/banners.php.

MARKETING by CD:

We have produced Marketing CD. s that you can handout to potential Sibername clients. Every CD has a different license code. These license codes will be assigned to you to make sure you will receive referral commissions from CD. s picked up at your location.

These very professionally prepared marketing CD. s can be displayed on a counter in your shop or office. Like the AOL model, these CD. s are free to take by your clients.

As a Sibername customer, you are eligible for having CD. s and CD displays mailed to your postal address for free of charge. All we need is a written (in an email) commitment that you will place these marketing materials to a place visible by your clients. Please reply back to us if you are interested in having some CD. s mailed to you. Please also explain how do you plan to use these CD. s and how many would you need to start with.

As an alternative, you can download the CD content and burn it to as many CD. s as you like. You can find the CD labels that you can print on your CDs through your user interface at http://www.sibername.com/agent.

The revolutionary Agent program is hard to cover in a 1 or 2 page email. We have prepared written documents on our web site to help you to better understand the usage and benefits of the program.

Please visit us at http://www.sibername.com/affiliate for more information about the agent program.

Feel free to email us at support@sibername.com or call our sales department in
case you have more questions or opinions, or you are in need of CD and CD
displays to use for marketing our services at your office or shop.

 

September 1, 2005

Sibername.com completes its 2004-2005 Fiscal Year by 50% increase in sales.

We are happy to complete our fiscal Year with 50% increase in sales. A summary of 2004-2005 fiscal year can be found below.

Sibername.com continued to be in the top 10 of the .CA registrars list. Last year 6219 new .ca domains are registered by 3186 different registrars. During 2003-2004 fiscal year, these numbers were 2192 domains by 1349 registrars.

We are also happy to exceed 5000 limit for the other type of the domain names.

Sibername has added a new model on referral commission. The details of the agent program can be found at http://www.sibername.com/affiliate .

Sibername has improved his Billing and Domain Management system. We have also added a new Knowledge Base Database with questions and answers compiled from 40000 user tickets handled in the history of our company. You can reach to our Knowledge Base database through http://sibername.com/cgi-bin/perldesk/kb.cgi. Our customers can find answers to Frequently Asked Questions through this interface.

We have continued to solve all customer problems in less than 1 hour average throughout the year. This also helped to create a large volume of loyal customers with a lot of referrals. We have kept our promise of 99.99% uptime guarantee. We have implemented several backup options which will help in case of different possibilities of failure on any hardware or software.

We have been in the top 3 most successful .CA Domain Name Registrars throughout the year. Many dropped (TBR) domains were registered through Sibername's CA Domain Back Ordering System.

Sibername has implemented online web site building tool called WebSiteMatic. It has increased our customer satisfaction. We have also started offering free 1 page Web Site with domain name registration as well as free domain name forwarding.

We have added new people to our staff from the top quality group of people available in the Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration Industry.

We have been the first .EU domain name registrar from Canada and will start offering .EU domain name registration services in Fall 2005.

Sibername has extended his offerings to European market by its branch in UK. UK branch will be more active starting Fall 2005 and will be accessed by the domain name http://www.sibername.co.uk

With this opportunity, we would like to thank all our customers for their support and their referrals. We promise to keep quality of service in 2005-2006 fiscal year.

Mesut Bulent Turkoglu
President & CEO
Sibername.com

http://www.sibername.com

900-275 Slater Street
Ottawa, K1P 5H9,
Ontario, CANADA

phone: (888) 333-3860 - (613) 288-1595
email: sibername@sibername.com

July 12, 2004

Sibername is the first Canadian Accredited .EU Registrar

July 12, 2005 -- Canadian domain name registrar Sibername (sibername.com) announced on Tuesday that it had been accredited to accept registrations for the forthcoming European Union country code top-level domain .EU. The .EU sunrise period will begin in the fourth quarter of 2005 and is expected to last approximately four months.

"We are proud to be the first Canadian company accredited for .EU domain. Canada has a high percentage of European origin population and people in close contact with European countries. Our cost affective services will help our valued customers to establish their web presence in Europe with the comfort of getting their services from a company that they have got good experience with .ca domain names.

We will offer .EU registration at cost during the sunrise period with a normal processing fee applicable. The .EU ccTLD will be available at the applicable registry price.�

We will start accepting .eu pre-registration applications in early August 2005. Please visit http://www.eurid.eu for more information on .eu domain names.

Sibername will also launch its European web site before September 2005 and will provide web hosting services with servers in Manchester UK.

 

May 15, 2005

New Account Manager Functions are Added:

We have added several new features to our Account Manager System. You can login to the account manager through the link http://www.sibername.com/account/login.php by entering your email address and password. There you can�

- Update your contact details,�
- Get a list of web hosting services,
- Domain names you have with us,
- You can renew multiple domains at the same time,
-�You can renew your web hosting services,
- You can resend the web hosting welcome email to get your hosting account details.

In very recent feature, you will also be able to add delete services and query your invoices through the same interface

New Domain Manager:

Finally we have implemented the long waited advanced domain name manager. By Through the domain manager located on page http://sibername.com/domain/modify.php , now you can:

- Update your domain name registrant and admin contact details,
- Query the CIRA password for the .ca domain names,
- Set URL forwarding for the domain to any other URL of your choice in cloaked or uncloaked mode,
- Start a Registrant transfer for a .ca domain name,
- Renew your domain name,
- Install WebSiteMatic light version, or query the username and password for already installed WebSiteMatic account.

We are working on new features like Advanced DNS Manager tool which you can use to change your domain names MX, A, CNAME records online. The Advanced DNS Manager is planned to be available through the same Domain Manager interface before June 2005.��

WebSiteMatic Template Improvements:

We are adding new templates to WebSiteMatic on weekly basis. The new templates are conversions of some selected Turnkey Package templates. We believe having more professional template options for a great site builder tool like WebSiteMatic will make this tool the best available option in the market. Please send us any� template from the list http://www.designmenu.com/cgibin/show_catalog.cgi and we will make it available for you on the WebSiteMatic template options.

Sibername Agent Functionality in progress:

Pretty soon, we are going to offer a new way of making money from our services. We are currently developing an Agent system. With this system you will be able to sell our product with an attractive discounted rate to other potential customers and get up to 40% profit and residual income from the renewals. More details will be available after we complete the implementation of the first version of the agent feature. If you have any questions or ideas on this feature, please feel free to contact us and we will take it into acount during our feature development phase.

Sibername Will Expand to Europe:

We are going to Launch our European Web Site in next couple of months. The web site and servers will be based in UK.

Sibername will offer .eu Domain Names:

In parallel to its presense in Europe, Sibername will offer .eu domain registrations. We are trying to be one of the first .eu registrars available and following the progress on daily basis.

April 9th, 2005

Today Sibername celebrates its 5th birthday. In its fifth year, Sibername has continued to be one of CIRA's leading registrars. Sibername increased the total number of (.ca) domains registered from 5072 to 8556. Sibername now has 3228 websites hosted and total 11960 domains registered and continues to grow.

We would like to thank you all our customers for choosing and staying with us.

Nov 20th, 2004

Sibername has launched a new web site for 128 bit SSL web certificates. The new web site is called SiberSSL and can be accessed through siberssl.com

Nov 12th, 2004

Sibername announces new domain name service price of $14.95 CAD for 1 year registration / renewal and transfer. The price can be as low as $13.45 CAD with the multiple year registrations. Click here for more details.

Nov 5th, 2004

WebSiteMatic and WebSiteMatic Light is now included with our WebHosting and Domain name registration services respectively. You can find more information on WebSiteMatic by clicking here.

Nov 5th, 2004

Domain registration price has been reduced to $14.95 CAD per year and $13.45 CAD for ten years.

May 19th, 2004

We've moved to downtown Ottawa. Our new address is 275 Slater Street, Suite 900, K1P 5H9

April 9th, 2004

Today Sibername celebrates its 4th birthday. In four years, Sibername has become one of CIRA's leading registrars. Last year alone, Sibername more than doubled its number of .ca domains registered, from 2188 to 5072. Sibername now has 2000+ websites hosted and 7000+ domains registered and continues to grow.

February 15th, 2004

We have implemented a new system for domain name registration, Web Site Hosting applications and domain name management. With this system, it is much easier and faster to order services through us. This system also allows the registrants to renew their domain in simple steps that do not require a password authorization.

Thank you very much for your feedback which helped to make the system to be more user friendly.

October 1st, 2003

Sibername.com has bought the domain cybername.com and soon will be accessible by the new domain name.

September 30th, 2003

Sibername has completed the new web site design. Please check our new menu items on our web site.

September 15th, 2003

Sibername has introduced a new Turnkey Template Solution and added more than 2500 flash templates. You can find the new template based turnkey solution package and templates here.

Sibername.com is an ICANN Accredited Registrar

ICANN Certified Registrar

Sibername.com is a CIRA Certified Registrar

Sibername.com is an Authority (CIRA) certified .CA Domain Name Registrar