ICANN71 recap
ICANN71 has now finished, and although we once again missed the usual opportunity to connect informally with colleagues from other organizations and travel to new and interesting locations, we still … Continue Reading
EPDP 2a: Small changes? Big impacts.
Like many things in life, the domain industry is something that seems simple at first glance but reveals itself to be really complicated when you do a little digging. There … Continue Reading
How to become a domain reseller
Every website needs a domain name. So, whether you provide hosting services, a website builder or e-commerce platform, IT services, or any combination of the above, offering domain names alongside … Continue Reading
Paid vs. free SSL certificates: what’s the difference and which do you need?
Do I need to pay for an SSL certificate, or is a free one good enough?
Hosting providers, web developers, and many of our other resellers get this question a … Continue Reading
SSL certificate validity periods reduced to 1 year
Back in February of this year, Apple announced that as of September 1, 2020, its Safari browser will no longer trust newly registered SSL certificates with validity periods of two … Continue Reading
Tucows approaches to COVID related domain registration
From an early point in the current global crisis, it was clear to Tucows that we were going to need to do something new and different in how we responded … Continue Reading
Privacy and lawful access to personal data at Tucows
Tucows provides reasonable, lawful access to non-public registration data; this means constantly working to balance the privacy rights of registrants against the rights of third parties, most of which, in … Continue Reading
Hostnet: finding success with new TLDs
Founded in 1999 by two students offering web-design services, Hostnet has grown into one of the largest and most customer-friendly hosting providers in the Netherlands. Today, they offer domain names, … Continue Reading
Tiered access data disclosure update
It has been more than a year since Tucows launched our Tiered Access Compliance & Operations portal, sometimes called “Gated Whois,” and it’s been around six months since we shared … Continue Reading
The evolution of the domain transfer process
ICANN’s Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) defines the procedures and rules for domain name transfers. When it was first introduced in 2004, the Policy was limited to inter-registrar transfers. Over the … Continue Reading