September 8, 2011 · by weppos

We’re experiencing a very long downtime caused by a SAN issue that is affecting our VPS provider. We’re waiting for our provider to fix the issue on its side.

We’re very sorry for the inconvenience.

announcement

Many celebrities contacted the ICM Registry to block their .XXX domain names.

Celebrities like Justin Bieber decided to have his domain name permanently banned from the .XXX list. By doing this, celebrities want to make sure no cybersquatter will be able to register domain names like JustinBieber.xxx or BritneySpears.xxx.

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business domains

A new group of App developers have stepped up and announced plans to apply for the .APP new gTLD and is going about raising the money for the application in a very unusual manner.

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business domains

August 9, 2011 · by weppos

We just deployed a new release including several updates to the WHOIS definition database. Several new TLDs have been added to the list and we also increased the list of supported IDN domains.

The full list is available at the domain WHOIS support help page.

development whois

March 7, 2011 · by weppos

Last week we installed and configured SSL support on our RoboDomain server. We purchased the certificate using GoDaddy. When you download the certificate from GoDaddy, the package contains your regular .crt but also a gd_bundle.crt file.

That confused me a bit. I was expecting just a single certificate file.

When you download your certificate, GoDaddy prompts you a select with several different options and instructions. The instructions tell you how to install the certificate on several different environments, but unfortunately Nginx is not included in the list.

I read the documentation about Apache and I noticed Nginx HttpSslModule has no SSLCertificateChainFile equivalent. Actually, it turns out you just need to append the content of gd_bundle.crt to the end of your certificate.

$ cp example.com.crt example.com.bundle.crt
$ cat gd_bundle.crt >> example.com.bundle.crt

Then, configure Nginx as explained in the HttpSslModule documentation.

ssl                  on;
ssl_certificate     /patch/to/ssl/example.com.bundle.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /patch/to/ssl/example.com.key;
business server

March 1, 2011 · by weppos

In the past several users asked us to be able to access login and account pages via SSL-protected pages.

Today we’re switching the entire site from HTTP to HTTPS.

We originally planned to make this feature available to paid plans only, but we eventually decided to deploy SSL to all users, including free and beta accounts. We’re also flagging all cookies as secure to make sure they are sent only over SSL requests.

Let us know if you experience any issue.

development Server

January 25, 2011 · by designabile

We are happy to announce the new RoboBlog design in this first new year post.

After the successful launch of our official website in September 2010, a lot of users asked us to update the blog and they were right.

So, what’s new with it? Let’s see.

Taxonomy and navigation menu

We introduced a new taxonomy changing the old tags with new ones:

  • Announcement: communications, status updates and other announcements
  • Development: features, design and major updates of RoboDomain
  • Business: about RoboDomain and domain world

You can navigate them using the new sidebar menu.

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announcement

December 13, 2010 · by weppos

A couple of minutes ago we rolled out an update to the WHOIS definition list. The update introduces the support for more than 15 new TLD, including .br.com, .cn.com and all the CentralNic extensions.

Thanks for all your feedback.

development whois

November 21, 2010 · by weppos

Yesterday we rolled out an other major update. After the Import Domains page cleanup and the user-friendly Error Pages, this time we are offering you a redesigned Account Settings section.

The new section is now divided into several tabs. The first one contains your user account settings. You can update your profile information, change your password and regenerate the authentication token.

If you haven’t updated your profile yet, take the time to fill your name and provide a few information about you.

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development

November 19, 2010 · by weppos

We just deployed a customized version of the standard error pages, such as the 404 and 500.

So, the next time you’ll try to reach a page that doesn’t exist, you will see our friendly robot instead of a scary blank page with a red message.

development