Tag Archives: hover

Thu 7th May 2015
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Tucows reports continued expansion as mobile services boom - Ting helps Tucows continue to post strong growth. Tucows reported continued revenue growth in an earnings release after the market closed today. The company posted $40.5 million revenue, up from $34.4 million in the same quarter last year and $38.8 million last quarter. Tucows’ Ting group, which offers mobile phone services and is moving into high speed internet, continues to be the growth driver for the company. Quarterly revenue from these services has nearly doubled in the past year and hit ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Phone use continues to accelerate Tucows’ tip line - Ting 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 quarter of 2014 increased 9% to $38.9 million from $35.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Revenue from Ting increased $5.03 million, offsetting a drop of $1.79 million in its domain name business. OpenSRS — Tucows’ ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2014
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See Tucows’ new sales-focused parked page landers - Tucows pushes the envelope on sales-focused domain name landing pages. Yesterday domain name registrar and portfolio holder Tucows told analysts it was trying something new to generate more aftermarket domain name sales. CEO Elliot Noss said the company is undertaking an “aggressive program of experimentation” on landing pages for its domain names in an effort to sell the domains. When I tested a half dozen Tucows-owned domain names this morning, they all went ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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Domain hunt progressing, though still not prepared for new tip turn domain names - Registrars are slowly improving their search results to show new top level domain name options, but the experience is far from ideal. Earlier this month I wrote about how domain name search at major registrars wasn’t ready for new top level domain names. I admitted it was early, as Donuts’ domain names had just come on to the market. It represented the first batch of English-language domains to become available. Now a few weeks later and over 100,000 new TLD registrations ... read more ...
Thu 13th February 2014
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Tucows on new TLDs, 2013 RAA, and Advertising - Tucows CEO Elliot Noss discusses the domain name business in the company’s latest investor call. Tucows released Q4 2013 earnings and held its investor conference call this week. Here are some highlights: * Tucows started charging for WHOIS privacy due to increased costs the company faces with the 2103 Registrar Accreditation Agreement. * Domain parking is still a drag on the company. It expects a flat or downward trend. This also affects its expired domain sales ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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Tucows reports earnings, says domain investors are assessing a impact of new TLDs - Tucows reports earnings, says domain investors are proceeding cautiously on domain buys as they assess the impact of new TLDs. Tucows reported earnings this afternoon, recording its twelfth consecutive quarter of record revenue (year over year). The company generated $30.0 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2013 and reported a slight profit of $0.1 million for the quarter. That compares to a $1.7 million profit in the same quarter last year. Most of ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
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The entrance change in domain name search - Registrars are preparing domain search for new top level domain names. Sometime this year a key element of the domain search box at GoDaddy.com will disappear: the drop down box containing top level domains such as .com. It may seem like a subtle change, but it’s indicative of a big shift coming in domain search and discovery necessitated by the launch of hundreds of new top level domains. Domain registrars must figure out how to present the most relevant domain ... read more ...
Thu 6th December 2012
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Support a gift by renewing the domain name - A unique gift this holiday season: renewing a domain name. Domain name registrar Hover has come up with a creative promotion to help charities. The registrar is asking people to support charities by renewing the charities’ domain names for them. You can see a list of charities that have their domains at Hover here. All you have to do is click the charity link, add how many years you want to renew its domain for, and then go through the checkout. You’ll also be ... read more ...
Fri 8th January 2010
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Hover Email Service Hit by Phishing Attack - Domain registrar’s personalized email service is target of phishers. Hover Personalized Email, a service from Tucows, is reporting that its members are receiving phishing emails. The services lets you sign up for a personalized email address using one of Tucows’ 40,000 last name domain names, which it obtained when it acquired NetIdentity. For example, people with the last name Smith can get firstname@smith.net. Here’s an example of the phishing email: From: ... read more ...
Tue 5th January 2010
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Tucows Takes Over Domains from 1stDomain.net [Updated] - ICANN selects Tucows to receive bulk transfer. [Update: I have received clarification from Tucows that 1stDomain did not renew its accreditation with ICANN, rather than being terminated due to any sort of breach of contract. Further, it appears that registries did not cut off the registrar’s access, but instead 1stDomain did this to facilitate the transfer.] Following the de-accreditation of domain name registrar 1stDomain.net, Tucows has been selected by ICANN ... read more ...
Fri 15th May 2009
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Did Parava Bilk Customers from Renewal Fees? - Parava alleged to have kept renewal fees instead of paying them to VeriSign. What’s a warning sign that your domain name registrar is about to leave you in a lurch? You pay it to renew your domain many years in advance, but it only renews it for one year at a time. Apparently a lot of Parava customers have experienced that. This week Tucows (Hover.com) took over the domain names that were at Parava, which was de-accredited by ICANN. It didn’t take long for ... read more ...