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.BOND – A Credible New Namespace for Financial Services Online

Posted on November 8, 2019November 12, 2019 by

Communicate Trust in Financial Services with a .BOND Domain

.BOND is a new top-level domain focused on financial markets and the financial services industry that will become publically available mid-November 2019.

Is Your Cybersecurity Strategy Up to Date?

Posted on November 6, 2019November 8, 2019 by

Vasilii Chekalov

When did you last review your cyber-security strategy at the office or at home? If it wasn’t in the last three to six months, it’s time to get cracking on it. Why? Because cyber-security is constantly evolving. It must do so to fight against the onslaught of cyber-crime.

Why Girls in STEAM Week is a Start, Not an End

Posted on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 by

Julianna

The economy needs more women in technology. While studies show that girls outperform boys in non-STEM subjects and came out almost equal in STEM subjects, fewer young women pursue post-secondary educations in STEM than young men, which leads to fewer women with careers in higher-paying STEM fields. In fact, technology is the only STEM discipline where the participation of women has declined in the past 20 years.

10 Tips for Scaling Your Business and Achieving Repeatable Growth

Posted on October 21, 2019October 22, 2019 by

A. Shibli

By putting in place sound business practices that can be duplicated at various stages of a company’s growth, entrepreneurs can ensure that their business scales-up to remain successful in the long run.

We ❤ Small Business Sale 2019

Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 by

Webnames.ca Staff

Did you know there are more than 1.1 million SMEs in Canada? More than anything, small business drives the Canadian economy, representing nearly 70% of Canadian jobs and accounting for 50% of the country’s GDP. Plus, 25% of Canadians report that they are interested in starting their own business.

6 Common Domain Name Business Risks Faced by Corporations

6 Corporate Risk Factors Arising from Domain Management Practices

Posted on October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 by

Julianna

Managing risk is a high priority item for any corporation. Domain names are valuable business assets and the home of your brands online. If they go offline, even briefly, it can have serious implications on revenue, brand and customer trust. If a corporate domain name portfolio is poorly managed, without defined policies and adherence to domain management best practices, or spread across multiple registrars, that business is exposing itself to increased risk and expending unnecessary time, resources and money.

Six reasons Canadians should choose .CA for a website

Posted on October 8, 2019October 9, 2019 by

Julianna

Domain names, as our own name suggests, are our jam! While we have more than 500 awesome options to choose from, as a Canadian-owned company our steady favourite remains .CA – and not just because one of our co-founder’s invented it. If you’re a Canadian individual or Canadian business targeting a homegrown audience, here are six compelling reasons (seven, if you count our current $9.99 .CA sale) to choose a .CA domain for your website over an alternative extension like .COM.

Business man assessing the performance of his website

Using HTTPS Leads to Better Website Performance

Posted on September 13, 2019September 16, 2019 by

Jack Parrish

Can SSL/TLS actually improve your website speed and overall performance?

Everyone in the IT industry knows that SSL/TLS is important for your website security. After all, it helps to protect the integrity of your website and the security of your users by securing the connection between clients and your web server(s). It also helps you to avoid those pesky “Not Secure” warnings on your website. However, the benefits of SSL/TLS extend beyond just that — using the TLS protocol can also increase the performance of your site so long as you configure your site for success.

Make your startup fundraising pitch memorable with these tactics

Posted on September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 by

A. Shibli

A fundraising pitch is a carefully crafted document that captures the soul and passion of your startup or organization. It very clearly explains the purpose of you asking for that financial support.

woman entrepreneur using business email to communicate

Why your email for business communications needs to match your domain name

Posted on August 29, 2019October 23, 2019 by

Julianna

Email has a lot of layers these days. List building. Personalization. Lead generation. Drip campaigns. But today we aren’t going to be discussing those things. Rather, on the heels of the massive Telus email outage that happened earlier this month, we wanted to go back to basics and look at the importance of having a business email address that matches your domain name.

Potential scam alert: Domain expiration notices from ‘Domain Registry’

Posted on August 9, 2019 by

Karthik Balachander

An old scam in the domain names industry is back, this merits a throwback post about Domain Slamming. We first wrote about the shady marketing practices of a company that called itself the ‘Domain Registry of Canada’ all the way back in 2011. Read on to know more about how to protect yourself from these practices.

Identifying legitimate looking tactics used by hackers to get inside your organization

Posted on August 7, 2019August 8, 2019 by

Rob Williamson

So you think that site is safe?

It is common myth that cyber thieves and hackers can be avoided by having a good anti-spam filter, a firewall, and anti-virus software installed at the end-points (endpoint = user).

Does a small business website really need SSD Hosting?

Posted on July 29, 2019July 30, 2019 by

Karthik Balachander

A Solid-State Drive (SSD) uses a data storage technology that provides dramatic improvement in the speed at which data is stored and retrieved from a storage device, as compared to classic magnetic hard disk drives (HDD). SSD Hosting is a web hosting service that uses solid state drives for its storage, thereby delivering superior read-write speeds, reliability and performance for websites and applications hosted on the server. Let’s dive deep to look at whether small businesses need hosting that uses SSD storage.

startup entrepreneur searching ideas for a business domain

7 Simple Strategies to Find a Great Business Name

Posted on July 4, 2019August 9, 2019 by

A. Shibli

What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

So goes the eternally popular line from Shakespeare in his play Romeo and Juliet. This statement seemed to hold true in those days. Ironically, many would disagree with Shakespeare today, for a name means and defines everything. Even “a girl who had no name”, chose to become “Arya Stark of Winterfell” in the end. (Surely, GOT fans would agree with this!)