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October 26, 2023

Domain Privacy now free of charge

As of today Hosting Nation is offering Domain Privacy on eligible domain extensions free of charge. Domain Privacy replaces the contact information on a domain in a WHOIS search with details from our WHOIS protection partner.  To add Domain Privacy go to the Addons section in Domain Management.
August 31, 2021

Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021

Verisign, the registry for .com is increasing pricing by 7% on September 1st 2021.  Unfortunately this means that we will be increasing our .com pricing as well. 1 Year Old Price 1 Year New Price $14.09 USD $14.95 USD $19.09 CAD $19.95 CAD Registration, Transfer and Renewal pricing is the same. In addition, Verisign has been permitted to increase .com […]
June 22, 2021

Billing system upgrade

  Our billing system got an update recently. With that we decided to switch the template that it uses. This will allow for easier upgrades in the future. Our old template had so many customization that doing updates was always troublesome. We hope you find the new template eaiser to follow.    
October 4, 2019

When do I get invoiced and when does my credit card get charged?

Over the years we had a few customers wanting clarification on when we attempt to charge them, and how that is related to invoice dates, due dates, and domain expiry dates. Let’s first talk about products other than registered domains. (e.g. Hosting, SSL certificates) The invoice for a monthly billing plan is generated 14 days before the due date. Annual […]
July 29, 2019

Page Guru Transforms Your Facebook Page Into a Professional Website

Page Guru makes building a website for your business easy. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 11, 2019 Vancouver Island, BC,May 11, 2019 – Today, Page Guru launched a new site that allows time-crunched small business owners to create fully-functional websites of their very own, regardless of how much (or how little) technical experience they have. Page Guru’s main appeal is its […]
March 26, 2019

Premium Email Filtering by Mailchannels

We would like to introduce a new product here at Hosting Nation, MailChannels Inbound Email Filtering, as a premium email filtering service. Email spam has become troublesome at every level for people who just want to read their communications. It can be offensive, threatening, and definitely misleading.  With MailChannels Inbound Filtering you get an ever-updating and adapting service with spam, […]
October 4, 2018

Ok we finally did it, the new website is live!

We just launched our new website with the all new backend billing and management systems. Managing your hosting & domains will be easier and a more intuitive experience. The new website merges 3 of our websites into one dual currency (USD/CAD) website for single point access on one domain name; www.hostingnation.ca All of our websites we’ve historically used will now […]
May 24, 2018

We are moving, get on the bus!

This is a copy of the email we’ve sent out to all our domain name customers. Email Subject: Urgent News from Hosting Nation. We are moving your domains! You are receiving this email because you have a domain registered with Hosting Nation and your email address is the Registrant email contact. What is happening? Due to a recent major price […]
June 2, 2017

What is Cloud Hosting?

The term “cloud” is used a lot these days on the internet. You have probably heard of cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft’s OneDrive.  These services provide storage for your files that can be accessible from many devices. Cloud hosting is somewhat different as it consists of CPU, memory and storage resources. Our cloud servers use […]