Tag Archives: Tucows

Wed 13th November 2013
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Tucows shares rocket to $3.00 on earnings, new TLD deal - Deal with Donuts bolsters Q3 earnings. Shares of Tucows (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) shot up 15% to $3.00 in after hours trading after the company announced third quarter earnings. The company got a big cash boost from its deal with Donuts to withdraw its applications for the .marketing and .media top level domain name applications. Although the exact dollar figure of the deal was not disclosed in the earnings release, there’s a huge jump in the company’s “portfolio” ... read more ...
Tue 20th August 2013
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Tucows.com Shares Hit 52 Week High - Shares of Tucows.com (TCX) hit a 52 week high in trading today. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.31 which is a 52 week high. As of publication Tucows.com is trading at  $2.26 up $.10 on the day and has a trading range today of $2.10 to $2.31 Tucows.com has a market cap of $93 million dollars. Tucows.com 52 week low was $1.05 making a very nice return for investors. Tucows is a top 5 ICANN domain name registrar.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sat 3rd August 2013
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Tucows and Donuts strike understanding on .media and .marketing - Donuts paid Tucows to walk away from two new top level domain bids. Donuts negotiated a deal with rival applicant Tucows for the strings .marketing and .media, which is why the latter withdrew its applications for the two domains last month. While neither party disclosed the terms of the deal, a video released by Tucows shows that Donuts paid Tucows to withdraw its applications. Because Tucows is a public company, we will likely get more details when it releases earnings ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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TLDH and Tucows group adult on 3 tip turn domain names - Two TLD applicants pool resources. Top Level Domain Holdings and Tucows are combining resources in an effort to lock down three top level domain names that are in contention sets. Tucows had applied for .group and TLDH applied for .tech and .store. By teaming up, each company will contribute to auction funds and take a minority interest in each others’ strings. Their amount of ownership will depend on how much money they contribute for the auctions. While the companies ... 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 ...
Thu 14th February 2013
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Tucows: fewer large domain sales, though good numbers on reduce labelled domains - Tucows generates less revenue from its portfolio but sales of $2,000-$3,000 domains still strong. Tucows reported earnings yesterday, which should give domainers some insight into how large domain portfolio holders are doing. The headline number is that sales from Tucows’ domain portfolio in Q4 2012 were $300,000 less than the same quarter of 2011. But a lot of that has to do with the lumpiness of high dollar domain sales. Here’s how Tucows CEO Elliot Noss explained ... read more ...
Wed 28th November 2012
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27 finish user domain sales, including a buy from a Data.com seller - A report on 27 end user domain name sales made last week. This week’s end user domain sales report includes a small purchase by the company that sold Data.com from Salesforce.com for $4.5 million. Afternic New York City bakery City Cakes shortened its domain from CityCakesNY.com to CityCakes.com for $2,500. Solid Industries Machine Shop Ltd. in Alberta, Canada bought SolidIndustries.com for $1,788. It already owns the net version. Harry Caray’s Restaurant in ... read more ...
Wed 14th November 2012
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Tucows: 14.1 million domains and Ting has 5,000+ accounts - Tucows continues to grow domain business while mobile phone service Ting gets bigger. Tucows’ total domains under management hit 14.1 million at the end of last quarter, the company announced on its investor conference call last evening. That’s up 21% from the same time last year. New registrations declined by 12%, which the company blames on “general industry softness in North America and Europe and some one-time events”. The ratio of transfers-in to transfers-out ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2012
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Have ccTLD questions? Just ask Alex - Get answers to your toughest country code domain questions. Some country code domain names are fairly easy to register. Most of them aren’t. Frankly, figuring out how to register some of the more obscure ccTLDs could take a Ph.D. But now there’s a free resource for all of your ccTLD questions: Ask Alex. It’s a new section on Tucows’ OpenSRS web site where company employee Alex Schwertner answers all of your questions about ccTLDs. Residency requirements? ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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ICANN sends crack notice to Tucows - Organization sends notice of breach to third largest domain name registrar. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Tucows, the third largest domain name registrar. This breach notice is unusual in that it seems to stem from a dispute over a particular domain name. According to the letter, Tucows is in breach of its registrar accreditation agreement for two reasons: 1. Tucows’ failure to maintain registration data and records pursuant to Section 3.4 of the RAA; and 2. ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Domain bonds doing really good this year - Tucows more than doubles and other domain stocks also on a tear. It has been a decent year for the NASDAQ so far. But returns on domain stocks have been exceptional. Consider Tucows (TCX), which opened the year at 75 cents. It has more than doubled to $1.52 at today’s open. The company continues to buy back stock, but I also think there’s overall enthusiasm for its domain business and the prospects of its mobile phone offering Ting. Demand Media, which owns eNom, ... read more ...
Thu 22nd December 2011
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OpenSRS implements 100+ ccTLDs from EPAG acquisition - Tucows’ reseller network now has over 100 additional domains to choose from. One of the key reasons Tucows bought domain name registrar EPAG back in August was to bolster its offering of country code domain names (ccTLD). Today it announced the first phase of its integration of ccTLDs carried by EPAG, adding over 100 new ccTLDs to its OpenSRS reseller platform. It will add more next year. A lot of registrars I talk to tell me they see an immediate registration lift ... read more ...
Tue 23rd August 2011
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Hover’s Implementation of Afternic Domains is Well Done - Simple and effective integration of domains for sale. A lot of large domain name registrars offer Afternic’s “Premium” inventory to customers. Each registrar integrates it differently and some do it better than others. I just checked out Hover.com’s integration and I really like it. Hover is owned by Tucows, which is Afternic’s latest top 10 domain registrar partner. Hover is known for its simplicity and this carries through to premium domains. It manages ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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Tucows Wins Another UDRP, What Was Greenberg Traurig Thinking? - Lawyer makes some really bad accusations. Tucows has won another domain name that is part of its “Personal Names Service”. Tucows acquired the domain name Primm.com when it bought Mailbank (NetIdentity) in 2006. NetIdentity registered the domain name in 1996. The case was filed by Herbst Gaming, LLC with the help of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Greenberg Traurig is no stranger to UDRP filings, having represented over 400 UDRP cases. This makes the arguments presented ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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Tucows Wins UDRP for Surname Domain Hinkley.com - Registrar defends domain name from attack by lighting company. Domain name registrar Tucows has successfully defended the domain name hinkley.com, which is part of its expansive portfolio of surnames, from lighting company Hinkley Lighting, Inc in a UDRP. The domain name was registered in 1996 and came as part of Tucows’ acquisition of NetIdentity. The panel ruled that Hinkley Lighting failed to show that Tucows lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain ... read more ...
Thu 12th May 2011
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Tucows Handicaps a Chances of New TLDs Kicking Off In Singapore - Will the new TLD application process finally get approved next month? For a while it looked assured that the new top level domain name applicant guidebook would get the green light at ICANN’s meeting in Singapore this June. But then Lawrence Strickling, head of the NTIA, said he didn’t think this was possible unless ICANN got on board with government demands. So what does Tucows CEO Elliot Noss think the chances are? BMO Capital Markets analyst Thanos Moschopoulos ... read more ...
Wed 16th February 2011
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Limited Edition Tucows Cookie Goes Back Up For Sale - Famous cookie goes up for sale. Last April I paid what I believe to be a domainer record for a cookie: $127.50. But this wasn’t just any cookie. It was a sugar cookie commemorating Tucows’ 10 millionth domain name registered. This is a limited edition cookie to be sure. And the proceeds from the cookie auction went to some Canadian charity that (I’m told) had nothing to do with ice hockey or Molson. The cookie has been sitting in my office for the past ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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Tucows Not Liable for Porn Spammer - by Kevin Murphy Domain name registrars cannot be held responsible for spammers who hide behind Whois privacy services, a California appeals court has ruled. Plaintiff Daniel L Balsam had won a $1.125 million default judgment against a spammer after receiving over 1,000 pieces of pornographic spam. Unable to recover the money, he found that the spammer had hidden his identity behind Tucows’ Whois privacy, so he sued the registrar for the cash instead. He argued that ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Registrars Defend Domain Name Whois Privacy - by Kevin Murphy Domain registrars are fighting off critics of Whois privacy on multiple fronts at the ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia this week. In the latest example, registrars led by Tucows CEO Elliot Noss today savaged an ICANN draft advisory that would hold affiliated privacy services accountable for cybersquatting customers. In May, ICANN said that as far as it is concerned proxy/privacy services are liable for how customers use their domains, under the ... read more ...
Thu 11th November 2010
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Tucows Thanks .Co for Strong Quarter of Domain Registrations - Company says .co launch was major contributor to growth on OpenSRS platform. Yesterday Tucows reported record quarterly revenue for the third quarter. It saw strong growth on its OpenSRS domain reseller platform, and credits .co in part for that growth. Here’s Tucows CEO Elliot Noss on the investor conference call last night: Again this quarter, OpenSRS domain service saw strong year-over-year growth in transaction volumes. Total transactions grew 16% compared ... read more ...
Wed 11th August 2010
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Tucows Earnings Warped by Currency Exchange Rates - Domain registrar’s business generating cash, but currency changes skew results. At first glance Tucow’s second quarter earnings announcement today looked bad. The company lost a penny a share for the quarter, compared to earnings of 6 cents a share in the same quarter of 2009. But then you dig into the details: the company realized a mark to market loss on foreign exchange of $1.9 million in Q2 2010; in the same quarter 2009 it realized a mark to market gain ... read more ...
Mon 9th August 2010
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Demand Media S-1 Discloses Details of NameJet Deals with Tucows, Others - IPO filing discloses financial deals for expired domain names. Demand Media’s S-1 filing last Friday revealed a bit about the company’s expired domain deals, although it doesn’t refer to its partners directly by name. NameJet has deals with Network Solutions (with whom it co-owns NameJet) and Tucows. It probably has deals with other companies as well. Here’s one of the statements (dollars are in thousands): On February 9, 2009, the Company entered into an ... read more ...
Tue 20th July 2010
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Forbes Explains How Tucows’ CEO Plays Video Games to Become a Better Leader - Forbes published an article yesterday about how video games can teach better leadership, and the article prominently features Tucows CEO Elliot Noss. The article starts off: Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, has spent the past five years training to become a better leader. How? By playing “World of Warcraft” for six to seven hours a week. “‘You have these events [in “World of Warcraft”] that are very leadership-driven,” Noss ... read more ...
Wed 12th May 2010
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Tucows’ OpenSRS Grows 9% Year-Over-Year - Domain name registrar reports first quarter earnings. Tucows (AMEX:TCX) reported first quarter earnings after the bell today and disclosed that its OpenSRS business grew 9% year-over-year in both transactions and revenue. OpenSRS includes the company’s domain registration business as well as e-mail services. The company hit a milestone of 10 million domains under management at the end of the quarter. Net income for Q1 was $0.6 million, but that was helped by ... read more ...
Thu 15th April 2010
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I Won a Tucows Auction - I just won an exciting domain name related auction that you may not have known about. Last month Tucows hit the 10 million domain milestone, making it just the third registrar to reach that number of domains under management. To celebrate, Tucows staffers each received decorative cookies (see picture). One Tucows employee put the cookie up for auction on eBay with this description: This item is going to move quickly! Don’t lose this chance to own a piece of history. ... read more ...