Domain name business continues to chug along. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) announced Q4 and full-year 2020 earnings after the market closed yesterday. It also announced that its board authorized the purchase of up to $40 million of its stock on the open ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Tucows offers “Whois Publicity” for domain names
· Domain RegistrarsCustomers can now publish their information in Whois. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) has started allowing customers on its Enom and OpenSRS platforms to display their information publicly in Whois—as long as their reseller enables it. Called "Whois ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Consensus be damned: here’s how transfers will work at Tucows after GDPR
· Domain RegistrarsTucows 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
Two Tucows execs are leaving
· Domain RegistrarsCFO and CIO announced their resignations this month. Two Tucows executives have recently notified the company that they are leaving. Last week, Chief Financial Officer Michael Cooperman announced that he was retiring after 18 years with the company. ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Tucows expects $20 million EBITDA/year from “opportunistic” eNom acquisition
· Domain RegistrarsTucows expects fast contribution from eNom, which has booked losses at Rightside. Domain name and communications company Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) didn't plan to acquire two domain name businesses over the past year, but the opportunities were too good to ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Phone service continues to bolster Tucows’ top line
· Domain RegistrarsTing product shows continued growth, OpenSRS takes a dip. Domain name and mobile phone service provider Tucows continues to see growth in its Ting offering, offsetting stagnating revenues in its domain name business. Net revenue for the third ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Sedo and Tucows ink domain listing distribution deal
· Domain SalesTucows has joined SedoMLS, giving access to the domain sales network to its thousands of resellers. Sedo has gained a big customer for its SedoMLS network. Tucows, which is generally considered the third or fourth largest domain name registrar, is ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Have ccTLD questions? Just ask Alex
· Domain RegistrarsGet answers to your toughest country code domain questions. Some country code domain names are fairly easy to register. Most of them aren't. Frankly, figuring out how to register some of the more obscure ccTLDs could take a Ph.D. But now ... Continue Reading1 Comment
OpenSRS implements 100+ ccTLDs from EPAG acquisition
· Domain RegistrarsTucows' reseller network now has over 100 additional domains to choose from. One of the key reasons Tucows bought domain name registrar EPAG back in August was to bolster its offering of country code domain names (ccTLD). Today it announced the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment