Tucows Inc is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States.
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35 Facts About Tucows
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Tucows Domains is currently the second-largest domain registrar worldwide and operates OpenSRS, Ascio, and Hover.
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In 2012, Tucows launched Ting, a wireless service provider and fiber Internet provider.
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In 2020, Tucows sold the Ting Mobile business to Dish Network, while they continued to operate Ting Internet.
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In 2022, Tucows spun off its SaaS service into a new business called Wavelo.
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The Tucows logo was two cow heads, a play on the homophone "two cows".
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In 2001, Tucows bought Infonautics, and changed the Infonautics company name to Tucows, a business tactic called a "reverse takeover".
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In 2004, Tucows acquired Boardtown Corporation, a billing software provider.
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In January 2006, Tucows completed its acquisition of certain assets of Critical Path, an outsourced email services provider.
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On February 19,2008, Tucows announced that they were launching a "Personal Names Service" using their portfolio of 39,000 domain names.
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Tucows planned to roll Kiko's features into their existing email platform.
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Tucows decided to discontinue these three services, and merge them into one new domain name registration service, called Hover.
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In December 2014, Tucows launched RealNames, offering e-mail service using domain names acquired from Mailbank.
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On November 14,2007, Tucows disclosed that they offer pay-per-click advertising on the pages of domains within their domain name portfolio.
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On February 7,2008, Tucows disclosed that it had switched from Google Ads to a new advertising partner in 2007, which led to a one-third increase in its revenue.
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On May 7,2008, Tucows announced it put a process in place for the regular sale of direct navigation names.
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Tucows announced on June 12,2008, that they have reached an agreement with Afternic to auction Tucows' large daily inventory of expired domain names.
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Tucows chose Afternic as a partner even though SnapNames with Register.
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On October 29,2008, Tucows announced that it would begin direct sales from their inventory of premium domain names under the brand name of Yummy Names.
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In February 2008, Tucows successfully defended against an arbitration proceeding over Batchelor.
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Tucows failed to respond, and the National Arbitration Forum ordered Tucows to transfer Weidner.
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Tucows provides millions of email boxes through their network of over 9,000 service providers.
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Customers of Tucows fully hosted email service are provided with POP3, IMAP, WAP and webmail access.
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Tucows sells services to consumers and small businesses and offers personalized email through net identity.
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Tucows expected to receive income for pay per click advertising revenue from domain parking the surnames.
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In February 2012, Tucows launched a new mobile virtual network operator in the United States known as Ting, which resells voice and data services on the T-Mobile US network.
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In 2017, Tucows acquired Canadian MVNO Roam Mobility from Otono Networks.
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On December 15,2014, Tucows announced its acquisition of the Charlottesville, Virginia ISP Blue Ridge InternetWorks, which was building a fiber to the home network.
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In January 2022, Tucows launched Wavelo, a software as a service company that builds telecom billing and operations software for Mobile Virtual Network Operators and Fiber Internet Services.
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Tucows maintains a download archive that includes more than 30,000 software titles in its worldwide network of partner sites.
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On February 7,2008, Tucows disclosed that Tucows plans to de-emphasize the software download aspect of their business.
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On May 6,2008, Tucows announced that they are getting out of the web hosting business.
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Tucows responded that it suspended dozens of sites every day, but that "unlike some competitors, it considered all complaints carefully to ensure they were justified".
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Tucows used to be the domain name registrar for the notorious American imageboard 8chan, which has been delisted by Google for hosting child pornography, and seen numerous swatting attacks and terrorist attacks announced and planned by users, notably the 2019 New Zealand Terror Attack.
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In 2021, Tucows launched a framework to explain their role in dealing with domain name abuse.
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