Tucows reveals portfolio sale price and data center plans. Domain name, mobile and internet services company Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) released earnings for Q4 and full-year 2018 yesterday. In its pre-recorded commentary about the earnings, the company ... Continue Reading4 Comments
.Com Winners: Some shakeup in the top 10
· Domain RegistrarsTop 10 registrars juggle places in latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com registry. This registrar-by-registrar report covers August 2018. Note that HiChina is now listed ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Namecheap and Tucows settle legal dispute
· Domain RegistrarsTransfer dispute was resolved in a legal settlement. Namecheap and Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) have entered into a settlement agreement to resolve a transfer dispute. Namecheap, a former Enom reseller, sued Tucows (which now owns Enom) because it said ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain stocks hit hard in market
· UncategorizedDomain name stocks haven't been immune to the market rout. It's been a rough week in the stock market, especially yesterday and today. The NASDAQ shed 4.7% in the past two days. There aren't that many publicly traded domain companies anymore on the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
More companies should emulate Tucows’ new earnings call format
· Domain RegistrarsFormat leads to higher quality questions and answers. Last month Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) held an unusual earnings conference call. Rather than a live call with analysts asking questions, the company pre-recorded the prepared remarks portion of the call. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Tucows changes the format of its quarterly earnings conference call, and it’s a great idea
· Domain RegistrarsNew investor call model should be emulated. Publicly traded companies release their earnings once a quarter. They follow it up with an analyst and shareholder call that goes something like this: The CEO talks about what happened during the quarter. ... 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
Digging into Tucows’ annual report
· Domain RegistrarsSome notable items from Tucows' 10-k. Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) filed its annual report yesterday. Here are some things I found interesting: 1. The company now has 558 full-time employees. With $329 million in revenue, that's about $600k of revenue per ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Short seller targets Tucows with scathing report
· Domain RegistrarsCompany that is shorting Tucows releases report blasting company. The same anonymous stock research group that targeted Web.com about four years ago is now going after Tucows. Copperfield Research released a report about the domain name, mobile and ... Continue Reading3 Comments