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Introducing Encryption Everywhere

Internet security and safety have never been more crucial. It’s rare to see an individual not connected to the web via phone, tablet or computer. Unless of course, they are living in a dark, isolated cave, located in North Antarctica, surrounded by nothing but breezes of loneliness. The point is, it’s imperative that all Internet […]

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Tucows to acquire Enom from Rightside

We issued a press release today announcing that Tucows has agreed to acquire eNom from Rightside. By bringing together OpenSRS and eNom under one roof, we are definitively forming the largest wholesale registrar (since we had each been making that claim independently for several years already!) and we are forming the second-largest registrar in the world […]

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ICANN’s new transfer policy will impact your business and your customers

Domain transfers between registrars and registrants happen thousands of times every day. You would think that such an ubiquitous process works well, like a well-oiled machine. Unfortunately, ICANN and the ICANN community do not share this view. ICANN has recently concluded a lengthy review process of all the policies that govern domain transfers in the […]

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Tucows acquires Melbourne IT’s international wholesale domain reseller channel

Tucows Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the international wholesale domain reseller channel of Melbourne IT Limited. The acquisition will add hundreds of resellers and approximately 1.6 million domains under management to Tucows’ OpenSRS wholesale domain business. Tucows will not acquire any of Melbourne IT’s operations and the transaction […]

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November 2015・Industry Insight

Top 25 new gTLDs – one year later

In an effort to give our global resellers more insight into the top-performing domain extensions, for the past year we have been publishing our monthly top 25 new gTLDs results. One year later, we have compiled all the results to see if there are common trends. Here’s what we found in 2015:   Consistent performers -.XYZ, […]

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Phishing attacks against registrars

You may have heard that many high-profile domain registrars are being targeted by a massive phishing attack against domain owners. We have received reports that some of those attacks are using Tucows branded emails to target some of our resellers and possibly end users all over the world. The fraudulent emails claim that a particular […]

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Security update

**This post was updated on August 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM EST.** On August 4, 2015 our security team identified and stopped unauthorized access to one of our systems. As a result, we reset all reseller Control Panel and Reseller Web Interface (RWI) passwords. Since then, we have worked 24/7 to complete an extensive investigation […]

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Help save domain privacy

One of the benefits of being a reseller is that your registrar takes on the task of working within the domain name regulatory environment for you. Occasionally, however, pertinent issues arise and it is our job to inform and engage you. Currently, there is a working group within ICANN responsible for building a regime to […]

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