Tucows will follow TechOps subcommittee recommendation for domain transfers as ICANN figures out what to do. Here's the thing about GDPR and domain name registrars/registries: if they wait for ICANN to figure out how to address GDPR, it will be too ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Tucows changes domain name price structure
· Domain RegistrarsNew pricing structure draws ire of some customers. Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX), owner of the dominant reseller domain name platforms Enom and OpenSRS, is introducing new pricing on both of its platforms. The pricing is not uniform across the brands. The ... Continue Reading20 Comments
Court orders Tucows to transfer 3.2 million domains to Namecheap
· Domain RegistrarsWith deadline looming, injunction forces Tucows to transfer domains. A Washington State court has ordered Tucows to transfer 3.2 million .com and .net domain names to Namecheap, and an appeals court has denied (pdf) Tucow's motion for an emergency ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Tucows’ revenue hit $85 million in Q3, company plans for GDPR
· Domain RegistrarsRevenue hits another record as company works to meet EU privacy law deadline. Domain name, mobile and internet services company Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) reported earnings after the bell yesterday. The company reported record quarterly revenue of $85.0 ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Namecheap drops lawsuit against Tucows
· Domain RegistrarsCompanies appear to be resolving their disagreement outside of court. Domain name registrar Namecheap has dropped its lawsuit against Tucows. [Update: they refiled it somewhere else.] Namecheap has historically been a domain name reseller using ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Chinese resellers cut off from .Au domain names
· Domain RegistrarsRegistry cites fraud in a decision to halt .au registrations from Chinese resellers. .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), the registry for Australia's .au domain names, has instructed Tucows to cut off Chinese resellers from .au domain ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Who won and lost in .Com?
· Domain RegistrarsA look at how registrars fared in the most recent public report. ICANN published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for June 2017. There was no change to the order of the top registrars for new ... Continue Reading3 Comments
September’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
· UncategorizedFrom a police raid to a lawsuit, here are top stories from September. It's time for a look back at the past month on DNW. These were the top five stories on this site, ranked in order of views. Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices - ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Tucows responds to Namecheap’s lawsuit over domain transfers
· Domain RegistrarsTucows suggests alternative methods of transferring domain names. Enom's parent company Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) has filed its first response to a lawsuit brought by Namecheap last month. Namecheap, an Enom reseller, wants Tucows to bulk transfer four ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Namecheap sues Enom and Tucows, demands transfer of 4 million domains
· Domain RegistrarsNamecheap says Tucows is dragging its feet on transferring domains registered through Namecheap when it was an Enom reseller. Domain name registrar Namecheap is big, but until this year it didn't show up on charts that rank registrars by domains. ... Continue Reading7 Comments