Tag Archives: Tucows

Wed 10th February 2016
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Tucows Announces $40 Million Stock BuyBack Program & Is Up Over 8% To $20 A Share - Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) announced after the market closed yesterday “that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program to repurchase from time to time up to $40 million of its common stock in the open market.” “The new $40 million buyback program will commence February 10, 2016 and will terminate on or before February 9, 2017. ” “The Company’s previous buyback program, which commenced February 16, 2015 and was scheduled to end on or before February 15, 2016, has ... read more ...
 
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Mobile phone use continues to lift Tucows - Domain names are the base, but mobile phone service contributes the most gross margin. Tucows, one of the largest domain name registrars, released fourth quarter and full year financial results yesterday. Fourth quarter revenue hit $45 million, with annual revenue of $173 million, up 17% from the prior year. While the company’s domain name business remains the biggest component of its revenue, all of the growth is coming from its Ting mobile phone service. And, for the first time, gross margin ... read more ...
Mon 21st December 2015
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Tucows CEO Elliot Noss – DNW Podcast #63 - Noss explains the evolution of Tucows. Tucows (NADSAQ: TCX) started in the early 90s as a software download site, but is now one of the world’s largest domain name registrars and has a market cap of about $250 million. CEO Elliot Noss explains a common thread in Tucows’ transition from downloads to domains, and now a provider of mobile phone and internet service. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, or click play below or download to begin listening. ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2015
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Tucows' batch in on fire - Shares up over 50% since May 1. If you bought shares of Tucows at the opening price on May 1, just a month ago, you’ve already realized a return of a whopping 57%. Shares in Tucows are on fire on the NASDAQ, where it trades under the ticker TCX. It’s not entirely clear what’s behind the surge. The company reported earnings on May 7, but the stock didn’t start to surge until a week later. Here are some possible reasons behind the price pop: 1. Share buybacks. Tucows is buying back up to $20 ... read more ...
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 ...
Fri 6th March 2015
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ASOP gets Tucows named in U.S. Government "Notorious" List - Registrar blamed for domain names used for fake online pharmacies. The U.S. government just released its “2014 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” report (pdf), which calls out markets in which there is apparent widespread counterfeiting or privacy. At the urging of Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), domain name registrar Tucows has been placed on the list. According to the report: Based in Canada, Tucows is reportedly an example of a registrar that fails to take action when notified ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2015
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.Online partnership splits, one association will work new TLD - Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Radix, Tucows and NameCheap won the contention set auction for .online last year, reportedly paying more than $10 million for the domain name. All three parties then made capital contributions to the partnership to cover the cost of the auction and running ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2014
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Blast from a past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it’s really different) - Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent domain names. Instead of typing a domain name like Money.com in your browser, you could just type “Money”. RealNames would resolve the query to whomever had registered the keyword “Money” with RealNames (at a cost, ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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Tucows Looking to buy adult to $8million value of shares in mutated Dutch Auction - Tucows Commences Dutch Tender Offer Under the Tender Offer, shareholders will have the opportunity to tender some or all of their shares at a price within the range of $16.50 to $18.50 per share. Based on the number of shares tendered and the prices specified by the tendering shareholders, Tucows will determine the lowest per share price within the range that will enable it to buy up to $8.0 million worth of shares, or such lesser number of shares that are properly tendered. Assuming that the offer ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
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Tucows Ting Cell Service Rated Number 1 By Consumers Report - According to fool.com, Tucows.com (TCX)  owned Ting service was rated as as the top cellular phone carrier. “When it comes to what Consumer Reports refers to as traditional service — what others refer to as postpaid service — the top carrier is … Ting! “If you haven’t heard of the company before, there’s a reason for that: The service’s parent company, Tucows, is a domain name registrar and has made a business decision to not spend a lot on Ting-related advertising, instead choosing ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Tucows Reports & Plans Repurchase $8 Million in Shares - Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported earnings for the third quarter of 2014 after the market closed. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 increased 9% to $38.9 million from $35.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for the third quarter of 2014 was $2.7 million, or $0.24 per share, compared with $2.6 million, or $0.24 per share, for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for both the third quarters of 2013 and 2014 included the contribution of confidential arrangements related ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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Looks Like The Team Of Radix, Tucows & NameCheap Has Won .Online - The new gTLD .online looks like it was won by the previously announced partnership with Tucows and Namecheap.com Last year Radix announced that the three applicants for .online have partnered up to run the .online registry. At that time, both Tucows and Namecheap withdrew their applications for .Online with ICANN. Today the ICANN site has updated and the remaining applicants for .online, except for Radix have withdrawn their applications ICANN shows Donuts, Whatbox, and I-Registry Ltd. have withdrawn ... read more ...
 
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.Online could be best general new domain yet - Three reasons .online should be successful. Michael Berkens spotted this morning that the last of the losing applicants for .online had withdrawn its application, meaning a partnership between Radix, NameCheap and Tucows has won the rights for the .online domain name. I think .online will be one of the most successful new generic top level domain names, for a few reasons. 1. A combination of three top-10 registrars will be pushing it. I’m assuming that Radix will ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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The state of a domain name industry - My views on domain parking, domain sales, registrars and registries. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the domain name business over the past month, and it’s time to put them down in writing. Here’s what I think about the state of the domain name industry in August, 2014. Domain parking is down. Way down. But don’t confuse down with out. We’re still talking about a relatively big business. Rook Media’s acquisition of DomainSponsor and its domain name ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Tucows Earnings Call: gTLD’s & ccTLD’s Increase Margins & They Bank Money Off .Group -   In the earnings call Tucows (TCX) which reported earnings yesterday revealed some interest facts and figures. In general profit margins from domain name is increase due to new gTLD’s and ccTLD’s, sales of domains are slowing, and Tucows revealed they had a minority interest in an application for .group which lost a private auction. While those funds won’t be booked until Tucows 3rd Quarter, Tucows increased their guidance of profit for the 3Q by by $1 Million Here are the highlights: “As ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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Tucows reports clever gain growth…from phone service - Ting powers Tucows to growth in Q2. Tucows released earnings for Q2 2014 after the bell today. It was a strong quarter for the company, which owns domain name reseller service OpenSRS. Revenue was up 14% compared to Q2 2013 and net earnings per share doubled. Don’t thank the domain name business for that growth. Although the domain business did OK, the growth driver was Tucows’ mobile phone service Ting. Ting revenue was up 121% compared to the same quarter last ... 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 ...
 
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4 engaging things Tucows pronounced on the discussion call yesterday - Selling domains, letting some expire, and the impact of new top level domain names. Domain name registrar Tucows released its first quarter 2014 earnings yesterday. The investor conference call included four interesting comments/facts about the domain name side of the business. 1. Tucows is testing ways to sell more domains through parked pages. The company says it has launched an “aggressive program of experimentation” on landing pages for its domain names to ... 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 ...
Tue 31st December 2013
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Tucows Joins Sedo MLS Network - Sedo, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global provider of domain names and other Internet services, has joined its SedoMLS network. The partnership will enable Tucows to automatically distribute more than 17 million actual existing premium domains and premium domains of more than 400 upcoming new generic top­level domain (gTLD) extensions to the more than 13,000 resellers in Tucows’ OpenSRS reseller channel, and also allows Tucows registered domains to be listed for sale on the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and Tucows ink domain inventory placement deal - Tucows 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 joining the network, the companies announced. This means that domain names listed for sale on Sedo are now eligible to appear on Tucows’ OpenSRS network of 13,000 resellers. Domain names registered with Tucows will also ... read more ...
Wed 18th December 2013
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Domain name association Tucows headed to a NASDAQ - Company to list on NASDAQ and perform a reverse stock split. If you’ve watched Tucows’ stock over the fast few years, you’ve seen it go from under $1 to almost $3, and its market cap hit $125 million: The stock surge is due to a couple things. First, the company has grown its stock price the old fashion way: making money. Second, it has used some of its excess cash to buy back its own shares. Now the company is headed to the NASDAQ in addition to its existing ... read more ...
Tue 17th December 2013
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Tucows Moving To NASDAQ & Does 1-for-4 Reverse Stock Split - Tucows Inc. (NYSE MKT:TCX, TSX:TC), announced today that it will transfer its U.S. stock exchange listing to the NASDAQ  effective December 30, 2013. The Company also announced that its board of directors has approved a reverse stock split of the Company’s common shares that will combine every four Tucows common shares into one Tucows common share. The Company’s common stock is expected to begin trading on a split-adjusted basis at the market open on December 31, 2013. Shares of Tucows have ... read more ...
Wed 13th November 2013
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Tucows Sells Over $4 Million In Domains Names In 3rd Quarter Or Gets A Lot Of Money For New gTLD Strings -   Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), today reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013 beating EPS estimates by $0.03 and beating revenue estimates by $3.8M. Shares are trading up over 15% after hours. Tucows sold a total of  $4.167,000 in domain names for the 3rd quarter of 2013 or maybe not. To be clear Tucows reported portfolio income of $4.1 million which has always consisted of  domain name sales but now includes some serious cash they may have gotten ... read more ...