Tucows Inc.

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Location Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Website
http://tucowsinc.com/
Keywords
hosting internet-services-provider enterprise-business 

Company Profile

We provide domain names, email and other services through our extensive reseller network and directly to consumers and small businesses through our retail and content groups.

OpenSRS, our Reseller Services group manages over ten million domain names, millions of mailboxes and thousands of SSL certificates through a network of over 10,000 web hosts, ISPs (Internet Service Providers), and other resellers around the world.

Our Retail Services group offers these services to consumers and small businesses through our three consumer brands: Domain Direct, NetIdentity, and IYD.

Our Domain Portfolio Services group oversees the tens of thousands of domain names in our own Tucows domain name portfolio. Included in the Domain Portfolio are over 30,000 domains that are the basis of our Personal Names Service that allows over two-thirds of Americans to purchase a domain or email address based on their name. Most of of these domain names generate advertising revenue and many of of these names are offered for resale via our reseller network and other channels. YummyNames is the public face of our domain name portfolio. Created especially with marketers in mind, YummyNames allows people to search for and obtain the perfect domain name for their company or brand.

Additionally, our Content group generates advertising revenue through tucows.com, one of the oldest and most popular software download sites on the Internet.

Our Platypus group provides ISPs with an industry-specific solution to billing, service provisioning, and customer account management. Platypus includes an integrated help desk system that automatically routes, tracks and maintains customer support email and phone calls to improve service desk performance. Platypus is a Windows software solution ISPs install in-house.

Tucows Inc. was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in November 1992 under the name Infonautics, Inc. In August 2001, we completed our acquisition of Tucows Inc., a Delaware corporation, and we changed our name from Infonautics, Inc. to Tucows Inc. Our headquarters are in Toronto. We have offices in Europe and the United States.

We were among the first group of thirty-four registrars to be accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1999 and we remain active in Internet governance issues.

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