We empower 13,000+ resellers worldwide
For over 25 years, we’ve made it easy for hosting companies, site builders, e-commerce platforms and digital agencies of all sizes to offer their customers domains, email and SSL.
Our guiding principles:
About Us
Making domains easy for everyone
Tucows OpenSRS was the first wholesale domain registrar. Today, we’re also the largest.
Protect
We believe the Open Internet is the greatest agent for positive change the world has ever known. We protect it actively and thoughtfully.
Serve
We are a service leader. Our customers’ success is our success. Not because it sounds nice but because it’s fundamentally true.
Foster
We help our customers build and grow. We share their success stories. We’re proud of the things people create using our platform.
Build
We help our customers create their success by building intuitive and powerful software that simplifies buying, selling and managing domain names and related services.
Making it easier to get online since 1999
Making it easier to get online since 1999
Registering a domain used to be a headache. It was expensive, complicated and not at all reseller friendly. The process was ruled by a government-sanctioned monopoly. When the industry was deregulated in 1999, Tucows saw an opportunity to democratize domain registration and OpenSRS was born.
Since then, we’ve branched out. We acquired Enom and Ascio to strengthen our portfolio.
All these brands come together as Tucows Domains Services. While our company evolves, our core mission always stays the same: We exist to simplify domain lifecycle management.
History of Tucows
Tucows begins
1993
“The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software” (Tucows), launched as a downloads site founded on a library computer in Flint, MI.
1996
Tucows was bought by Internet Direct.
Tucows enters the domains space
1999
ICANN ends Network Solutions’ monopoly on domain registrations
Tucows announced our entrance into the domain registrar space and came home from ISPCon ‘99 with hundreds of signed contracts.
January
2000
OpenSRS goes live.
We called our more accessible platform the Open Shared Registration System, or OpenSRS for short.
Tucows expands its presence and offerings
2002
Merger with Infonautics, Inc.
After the merger, our company name was changed to Tucows Inc.
2003
Email and Managed DNS
Email service and DNS—both still core parts of our portfolio—were launched.
2011
Epag acquisition
Welcoming Epag helped us provide a broader range of TLDs to our resellers.
2016
Tucows acquires Melbourne IT’s wholesale channel
We welcomed hundreds of new resellers and 1.6 million domains to the OpenSRS platform.
2017
Enom acquisition
This addition made us the second-largest domain name registrar and largest wholesale registrar in the world.
2019
Ascio acquisition
Welcoming Denmark-based Ascio into the family helped us strengthen our global presence.
2021
Tucows acquires UNR’s registry platform
With this addition, we expanded our technical team and entered the registry space as “Tucows Registry.”
Today
Largest wholesale domain registrar
At 17+ million domains on OpenSRS alone, we continue expanding our solutions and supporting our resellers.