Comments on: Tucows Leaps Network Solutions in Domain Name Registrations

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Tucows Hits 10 Million Domain Milestone - The Domain Industry's News Source

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:34:14 +0000

[...] the end of December 2008, the company topped 7 million domain names and surpassed Network Solutions as it migrated domains from the Its Your Domain acquisition on to [...]

By: Technology news - Techvibes Blog

Technology news - Techvibes Blog — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:36:20 +0000

[...] this month, Tucows overtook Network Solutions – the original domain registrar – and now sits behind only eNom and GoDaddy for total domains [...]

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:02:49 +0000

I agree with Stephen. I had IYD catch two domains for me and both were a hassle getting them out.

I got the strong feeling that they were trying to make it difficult for me to transfer out as a business practice designed to keep customers or worse, keep domains that do not get renewed.

Tucows is probably getting mostly drops from customers who could never access their account to transfer out or renew their domain.

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:00:44 +0000

I should state that Tucows “released” the domain “back” to me that I lost through IYD incompetence or fraud, after I posted about four blog articles and 10 negative comments on other blogs, such as DNW. Better late than never (11 months wait). I still lost one other domain through IYD. Worst registrar experience ever in ten years.

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:57:24 +0000

To David Woroch of TUCOWS:

See this interesting story on IYD and how they probably obtained many of their 550k domains for your acquisition:

Tucows released one of the domains I lost through IYD and nabbed for themselves when IYD never updated the whois info after I bought the domain on Snapnames last year.

Screenshots included:
http://www.successclick.com/itsyourdomaincom-tries-to-pull-a-gw-bush_2008_01_21/

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:58:37 +0000

For those of us who are just domainers and dont build sites I wonder if they will offer a lower price, the basic reg fee is 15.00 per name which will see a lot of names transfered out at that price.

By: Dave Woroch (Tucows)

Dave Woroch (Tucows) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:59:49 +0000

Hi, this is Dave Woroch from Tucows. Over the next few days, Tucows will actually jump to almost 7.2 million names under management, taking us well past Network Solutions. This will happen because we are migrating 550,000 domains from the It’s Your Domain portfolio, an acquisition we made last
year. We are in the process of consolidating these domains under the Tucows registrar tag, and this should be complete by Wednesday.

For those of you not familiar with It’s Your Domain, they operated an affiliate reseller channel. This acquisition allowed us to extend the breadth and size of the Tucows reseller channel. We are migrating more than 900 IYD affiliates to our new OpenSRS hosted storefront, which we have been building over the past few months. Consolidating the IYD affiliates into the OpenSRS platform will simplify our operations, and the addition of a storefront service extends the functionality of OpenSRS and positions us for further growth.

More information about our new storefront:

http://opensrs.com/blog/2008/11/a-sneak-peek-at-the-new-opensrs-storefront/