Tag Archives: Tucows

Fri 23rd January 2009
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Name.com Lays Off 10% of Staff - Domain registrar feels bite of sinking economy. Domain name registrar Name.com has laid off 10% of its staff, according to a post on its company blog. After growing last year, the company started to cut back on costs in October. But the cuts were not enough. Name.com cites razor small margins on domain names and intense competition, along with the faltering economy, for its woes. Name.com says customers need not worry; these cuts will enable the company to continue ... read more ...
Mon 29th December 2008
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The Perils of Trying to Go Public - NameMedia’s withdrawn IPO more painful than it looks. It may appear that NameMedia’s decision last week to to drop its planned initial public offering is just a temporary setback. Aside from the costs of filing its S-1 to go public, going on the investor roadshow, and obliging quite period regulations, did it really cost the company anything? The answer is yes. And it’s not the time, money, or decreased morale that hurts the most. It’s the disclosure. By ... read more ...
Mon 15th December 2008
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Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito Joins Tucows Board - Joi Ito joins Tucows Board of Directors. Creative Commons CEO, technologist, and venture capitalist Joi Ito has joined domain registrar Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) Board of Directors. In addition to serving as Creative Commons’ CEO, Ito is CEO and founder of Neoteny Co. Ltd, a venture capital firm investing in Internet technologies and services, and Kula Co., Ltd., an internet software company. Mr. Ito is the Chairman of Six Apart Japan, a weblog software company; ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2008
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Marchex Lays Off 10% - Marchex latest domain company to announce layoffs. Domain name and local advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) has laid off 10% of its workforce, reports The Pugent Sound Business Journal. About 35 people are losing their jobs, although some of those are contract workers. Marchex has made a series of acquisitions, so some of the jobs were redundant. But it’s also working to maintain a strong cash position in the 12-month old recession. Shares of Marchex ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2008
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Tucows Lays Off 15% of Staff - The action by WADND to strip Tucows registrar of their seal of approval could only be interpreted as a self-serving action to influence registrars like Tucows to join other registrars auctioning their domain names through Snapnames, Namejet and others. As the value of domain names commands sometimes 6 and 7 figures, many registrars have used every trick in the book to make it difficult for domain owners to renew their domain names, sometimes by not accepting their credit card for payment ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2008
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Tucows Reports Slight Loss in Q3 - Domain registrar fights currency fluctuations; down economy. Tucows (AMEX: TCX) reported a third quarter loss of $71,000 today. Despite a difficult environment, our third quarter revenue growth was driven by the strong performance of our OpenSRS Wholesale Services, primarily domain registration,” said Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows. “A number of factors, including weakness in our email business and the general economy putting downward pressure on ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2008
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Butterscotch.com Sends Mixed Message from Tucows - Tucows launches Butterscotch.com. Why? I’m a bit confused. Yesterday Tucows (AMEX: TCX) announced it entered into an agreement to sell its stake in domain registry Afilias for $7.4 million. Investors cheered, sending the stock up 25%. In the press release, Tucows CEO Elliot Noss said: “This sale is another step in our stated goal to divest non-core assets in order to unlock hidden value for shareholders. The proceeds of the sale provide additional funds ... read more ...
Wed 5th November 2008
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Tucows Sells Afilias Stake for $7.4 Million - Registrar continues to divest of non-core assets. Domain registrar Tucows has sold its stake in domain name registry Afilias for $7.4 million. Tucows owned 7.38% of Afilias, which pegs a valuation on the registry of about $100 million. However, the payments to Tucows will be spread across the next 13 months with $3.2 million today; $2.1 million in June 2009; and $2.1 million in December 2009. Tucows has already sold off its web hosting business and recently launched ... read more ...
Tue 7th October 2008
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Domain Stocks Pummeled - Domain name related companies get pummeled on Wall Street. Google’s 52 week stock performance(from Yahoo.com) The stock market is in a free fall, and domain stocks are no exception. Shares of Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) dropped 12.5% yesterday to close at $8.28. At one point it dropped to $7.75. It’s down 27.5% since the beginning of September. Tucows (AMEX: TCX) shares continue to drop, and closed at just $.35 yesterday. The stock has been as high as $1.00 over ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2008
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Tucows: Domain Parking May Have Hit Bottom - Tucows’ says domain parking revenue is down, but it may be on the rebound. Tucows, a wholesale domain registrar and owner of 150,000 domains, saw its revenue from domain parking drop 12% in just one quarter, but CEO Elliot Noss says it may have hit bottom. “In terms of where’s the bottom, we’ve started to see a little bit of a pickup now so we may have hit the bottom,” said Noss on an earnings conference call Tuesday evening. Tucows direct navigation ... read more ...
 
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Tucows to Compete with GoDaddy’s Wild West Domains - Company to create “reseller in a box” program. Wholesale domain registrar Tucows is launching a new program for resellers that will allow them to open a domain registration store in a matter of minutes. Tucows reseller program, dubbed OpenSRS, has traditionally been geared to technically savvy companies wanting to add new services to their offerings. A technical integration was required. On the company’s earnings conference call yesterday, CEO Elliot Noss ... read more ...
Mon 28th July 2008
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Tucows Revives OpenSRS Brand for Resellers - Company reinvigorates reseller program with legacy brand. Domain name registrar Tucows is breathing new life into its reseller program by reintroducing an old brand: OpenSRS. Tucows was the first reselling registrar on the web back in 1999, claims Tucows VP of Marketing and Product Management Ken Schafer. Tucows hopes to leverage the OpenSRS brand to create a consistent reseller brand. “We’re proud of those roots,” said Schafer in an interview with Domain ... read more ...
Thu 17th July 2008
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Domain Name Stocks Pummeled in 2008 - Stocks of domain name companies take beating with the market — and beyond. It’s been a rough year for stock markets, and domain name companies’ stocks are having a tough run as well. The good news is that two “pure play” domain companies’ stocks are performing much better than the market overall. Here’s a quick run down of domain related stocks and how they are doing year-to-date as of yesterday’s close. For comparison, the SP 500 is down 15% this ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2008
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Tucows to Auction Expiring Domain Names during Afternic - Registrar opts for Afternic platform for expiring domain names. When domain registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX) recently announced they were shutting down their in-house expiring domain platform, there was speculation where they would send their domains. (Although Tucows had an auction platform, it also sold domain names through SnapNames). We now know the answer: Tucows is sending expiring domains to Afternic. Afternic will add the domains to its auction system alongside ... read more ...
 
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Tucows and Afternic Deal Q&A - Bill Sweetman of Tucows answers questions about its deal with Name Media’s Afternic. After today’s announcement that Tucows (AMEX: TCX) is sending expired domain names to Afternic, there were a couple lingering questions. I asked Bill Sweetman, General Manager – Domain Portfolio at Tucows to fill in the gaps. Domain Name Wire: With SnapNames and NameJet the dominant players in expired domains, pulling in higher bid prices than other platforms, what made you ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2008
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Canada Leading a Way with Whois Changes - .Ca is getting a whois overhaul. Perhaps the rest of the domain world can use it as a framework. There have been a number of suggested changes to ICANN’s whois framework. But Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is making changes to its .ca country code on its own. Canada-based domain registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX) is reporting that CIRA will make sweeping changes to its whois policies on June 10: -Whois registrant data will be made private by default. ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2008
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How to Become a Full-Time Domainer Overnight - Tucows has new job for “Associate Domainer”. Are you a part-time domainer that wants to become full-time? Think you could work magic if only you could get your hands on a multi-million dollar portfolio of domain names? I came across a job listing from domain name registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX) that might interest you. The position is for “Associate Domainer”: * The Domain Portfolio Analyst is responsible for monitoring, measuring, and managing a large portfolio ... read more ...
 
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Canadian Domainers Feel Pain of Rising Loonie - Rising currency values can actually hurt Canadian domainers. Canada has launched its share of superstar domainers including Kevin Ham and Adam Dicker and domain companies such as Tucows (AMEX: TCX) and Live Current Media (OTCbb CMNN.ob). You’d think they are happy that the Canadian Dollar, also known as the loonie, has met parity with the U.S. dollar. But that may not be the case. Consider that they generate revenue mostly in depreciated U.S. dollars but have ... read more ...
Thu 28th February 2008
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Tucows Fights off Car Dealership - Tucows wins UDRP decision for Batchelor.com. Domain registrar Tucows has successfully defended against an arbitration proceeding over the domain name Batchelor.com, which the registrar acquired with its NetIdentity purchase. NetIdentity holds nearly 40,000 surnames and offers email addresses at those names, such as tom@lastname.com. The complaint was filed by Ken Batchelor Cadillac Company, a car dealership in San Antonio, Texas. The National Arbitration Forum panel ... read more ...
Wed 20th February 2008
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Tucows Reveals Depth of Domain Portfolio - Company discloses valuable domains and number of domains held. Domain registration “wholesaler” and service provider Tucows (AMEX: TCX) has revealed data about its domain holdings. With over 150,000 domains, the portfolio makes up a significant part of the company’s value, which likely hasn’t been fully captured in its stock price. Its shares on the AMEX are sitting at $.63, just off a 52 week low of $.53 and well below a high of $1.41. (I’m assuming ... read more ...