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.:.: Founded, (1993) Headquarters, Key people Elliot Noss (President and CEO) Dave Singh (CFO) Allen Karp (Chairman) Industry services $190 million (2016) $11.3 million (2016) Employees 400 (2017) Website rank 22,706 (April 2017 ) Tucows Inc. Is a Internet services and telecommunications company, headquartered in,. It is the second-largest worldwide and operates, and OpenSRS, a platform for domain resellers. In 2012, Tucows launched, a and, and continues to operate its namesake directory of and software downloads. The company was formed in, in 1993. The Tucows logo is two heads, a play on the 'two cows'. Tucows headquarters in Toronto started Tucows in 1993 to provide users with downloads of both and trial versions of.

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The name originally was an acronym for 'The Ultimate Collection Of Software'. Internet Direct, owned and operated by John Nemanic, Bill Campbell, and Colin Campbell, acquired Tucows in 1996. STI Ventures acquired Tucows in 1999.

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The company employed roughly 30 employees in, in 1998 with additional employees in Canada. For several years personally oversaw day-to-day activity in the Flint office located in the White House building on Beecher Road. In 2000, Tucows acquired Linux Weekly News. In 2001, Tucows became a wholly owned of, and afterwards Infonautics changed its own name to Tucows, a business tactic called a '. On August 26, 2002, Tucows sold eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com, its search and reference services properties inherited from Infonautics, to Alacritude.

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In 2004, Tucows acquired Boardtown Corporation, a billing software provider. On August 19, 2005 Tucows went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. In January 2006, Tucows completed its acquisition of certain assets of Critical Path, an outsourced email services provider. In June 2006 Tucows paid $18 million to purchase Mailbank.com Inc, a company that owns over 17,000 domain names for common surnames, such as smith.net and brown.org. Mailbank generates income from ads on its websites (from ) and also from customers who want e-mail accounts with their surname in the domain name.

On June 15, 2006, Noss disclosed that the portfolio of NetIdentity's domain names acquired by Tucows represents at least 68% of surnames in the United States and Europe, and that the cost of the acquisition was $18 million. On February 19, 2008 Tucows announced that they were launching a 'Personal Names Service' using their portfolio of 39,000 domain names.

'The launch of the Personal Names Service marks the complete integration of the surname assets we acquired with NetIdentity into our wholesale channel', said Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows. On August 26, 2006, Tucows won an auction for the web calendar site Kiko.com. The company planned to roll Kiko's features into their existing email platform. On July 27, 2007, Tucows acquired ItsYourDomain.com (IYD), another privately held -accredited wholesale registrar offering domain services through a network of over 2,500 affiliates with over 700,000 domains under management, paying US$10.35 million. ItsYourDomain.com managed 699,951 domains compared to Tucows's 5,919,987, at the time of the sale in July 2007 ItsYourDomain.com's monthly growth of 29,181 exceeded Tucows growth of 21,126. By June 2008, Tucows had a total of three domain name registration services called ItsYourDomain (IYD), NetIdentity, and DomainDirect.

Tucows decided to discontinue these three services, and merge them into one new domain name registration service, called. Hover is a simple domain name registration service powered by Tucows Inc, that started in July 2008. All IYD, DomainDirect, and NetIdentity customers are fulfilled by Hover.com.

On November 6, 2008, Tucows announced that they were launching Butterscotch.com, an online video network with video tutorials to explain Internet technology, starting with 35 video tutorials and plans to reach 500 clips by Spring 2009. On October 14, 2011, Butterscotch.com producer Sean Carruthers stated production had been shut down.

In December 2014, Tucows launched RealNames, offering e-mail service using domain names acquired from Mailbank.com Inc. On January 20, 2017, the company acquired for $83.5 million, making Tucows the second-largest domain registrar in the world. Business lines Tucows is the second-largest -accredited registrar in the world and the largest registrar. In July 2008, Tucows its wholesale services as 'Open SRS'. Domain portfolio management Tucows has three sources of income from its domain portfolio: 1) Advertising from pages of domains within their domain name portfolio; 2) Sales of domains from their portfolio, which is constantly being replenished; 3) Auction of the steady stream of thousands of domain names that expire every day and become available for resale.

In November 14, 2007, Tucows disclosed that they offer advertising on the pages of domains within their domain name portfolio. When a user types one of these domain names into the address of the browser (direct navigation), they are presented with dynamically generated links which are pay-per-click advertising. Every time a user clicks on one of the links listed on a web page, it generates revenue for Tucows through its partnership with third parties who provide syndicated pay-per-click results. On February 7, 2008, Tucows disclosed that it had switched from to a new advertising partner in 2007, which led to a one-third increase in its revenue.

On May 7, 2008, Tucows announced it put a process in place for the regular sale of direct navigation names. These domain names would come from names that expire each month from customers who decide they no longer want the domain names and that Tucows is able to select the ones they want to keep from these domain names. Tucows announced on June 12, 2008, that they have reached an agreement with Afternic to auction Tucows’ large daily inventory of expired domain names. 'We have over eight million domains under management and thousands expiring every day, so this deal provides us with a great way to share revenue with our resellers while participating in Afternic’s popular secondary domain name marketplace”, said Bill Sweetman, General Manager of Tucows Domain Portfolio. Tucows will share 10% of the gross sale price with the reseller for the sale of expired domains that were originally registered through the reseller.

Revenue will be shared automatically without the reseller having to take any additional action. Tucows chose Afternic as a partner even though SnapNames with Register.com and NameJet with NetSol/eNom are the dominant players in expired domains. On October 29, 2008, Tucows announced that it would begin direct sales from their inventory of premium domain names under the brand name of Yummy Names. The service was created especially for marketers to obtain a high-quality domain name from Tucows inventory. Customers have the option of purchasing a premium domain name outright or leasing the name. In 2009 one of Tucows' subsidiaries, Buydomains Holdings, sold another premium for a record $50,000 for.com.

On February 20, 2008, Tucows announced a portfolio of over 1,000 'gems', or that have the high potential value such as 'Jewellers.com', 'Actresses.com', 'BasketballPlayers.com', and 'ProjectManagers.com'. In February 2008, Tucows successfully defended against an arbitration proceeding over Batchelor.com, which it had acquired as part of its NetIdentity purchase. The complaint had been filed by Ken Batchelor Cadillac Company, a.

A panel determined that the dealership had not established rights in the mark 'Batchelor'. In fact, Tucows has won all surname-related arbitration proceedings. In 2007, Weidner Investment Services filed a complaint claiming that Weidner was its or and asked the to order the transfer of Weidner.com from Tucows to Weidner. Tucows failed to respond, and the National Arbitration Forum ordered Tucows to transfer Weidner.com to Weidner Investment Services. In January 2017, was sold to Canadian domain seller Tucows for $83.5M Canadian. Email services Tucows provides millions of email boxes through their network of over 9,000 service providers.

Customers of Tucows fully hosted email service are provided with POP3, IMAP, WAP and webmail access. Providers using Tucows Email Service have the option of using Tucows' spam and virus filtering with their current email infrastructure. As part of the NetIdentity acquisition, Tucows had problems retail customers' email from a third-party provider to Tucows in-house mail systems in September 2006. Starting August 12, 2008, Tucows Email Service running on their servers designated as Cluster A experienced a multi-day outage lasting until August 15, 2008. On October 6, 2008, Cluster A again suffered another multi-day outage affecting at least 50% of users and at times all users. As of the afternoon of October 9, 2008, this cluster was still partially down ('degraded') preventing an unknown number of users from being able to retrieve email. Retail services Tucows sells services to consumers and small businesses and offers personalized email through net identity.

Tucows also offers customers hosting and other services with NetIdentity. Tucows also expected to receive income for advertising revenue from the surnames.

Mobile phone services In February 2012, Tucows launched a new mobile phone business called, which resells voice and data services on and networks. As of March 2017, the service has approximately 250,000 subscribers. Fiber Internet services On December 15, 2014, Ting announced it was buying ISP Blue Ridge InternetWorks of, which was already building.

They began offering symmetrical gigabit fiber internet without bandwidth caps. Since expanding the existing fiber network in Charlottesville, Ting has also launched a similar service in and. Ting also announced plans to expand into and in 2017.

De-emphasis and divestment of business lines De-emphasis of software downloads Tucows maintains a download archive that includes more than 30,000 software titles in its worldwide network of partner sites. Although some listing features now have fees, basic listing remains free. Tucows founder Scott Swedorski announced his resignation in November 2003. On March 10, 2006, Tucows Content division closed its satellite office located in, and relocated the remaining editorial functions to its corporate head office in Toronto. On February 7, 2008, Tucows disclosed that Tucows plans to de-emphasize the software download aspect of their business. Divestment of web hosting accounts On May 6, 2008, Tucows announced that they are getting out of the web hosting business.

As part of the divestment Tucows signed an agreement for Hostopia to purchase about 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain.com (IYD) customer web hosting accounts and would migrate the web hosting accounts to Hostopia's unified web service platform by July 2008. Divestment of equity interest in Afilias On November 5, 2008, Tucows announced that it was selling its entire 7.38% equity interest in for $7.4 million. Afilias is the registry operator of the and TLDs, and the service provider of the (gTLD), mobile phone TLD, and a provider of domain name registry services for several countries around the world, including.AG (Antigua and Barbuda),.BZ (Belize),.GI (Gibraltar),.HN (Honduras),.IN (India),.ME (Montenegro),.SC (the Seychelles), and.VC (St. Vincent and the Grenadines). Reputation Domain name add grace period (AGP) abuse On January 8, 2008, Tucows explained its values and position on: 'We work to uphold the rights of Registrants. That means, for example, not putting 60-day locks on domains when a Registrant makes a change to their information effectively locking some into a renewal and blocking domain name transfers to other Registrars.

That also means having a clear, defined policy surrounding expiry and redemption periods.' Tucows addresses 'by charging our Resellers a monetary fee on domain name registrations that are cancelled within the five-day Add Grace Period (AGP)', but it 'doesn’t use WHOIS query data or search data from our to front-run domain names'. Although it supports ’s fee to discourage and 's decision to drop names added and deleted during the AGP from its program, Tucows claimed that AGP abuse could be further curbed by shortening the AGP period to 12 hours or less, sufficient time for registrants to correct spelling mistakes—AGP's original purpose.

Registrations to sites selling illegal goods In 2015, the included Tucows on its annual 'notorious markets' list—the first time it has named a —in order to set an example for what happens to registrars that do not block or suspend sites that sell illegal goods. Tucows responded that it suspended dozens of sites every day, but that 'unlike some competitors, it considered all complaints carefully to ensure they were justified'. See also.

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Source-initiated subscriptions allow you to define a subscription on an event collector computer without defining the event source computers, and then multiple remote event source computers can be set up (using a group policy setting) to forward events to the event collector computer. This differs from a collector initiated subscription because in the collector initiated subscription model, the event collector must define all the event sources in the event subscription. When setting up a source-initiated subscription, consider whether the event source computers are in the same domain as the event collector computer. The following sections describe the steps to follow when the event sources are in the same domain or not in the same domain as the event collector computer. Configuring the event source computer. Run the following command from an elevated privilege command prompt on the Windows Server domain controller to configure Windows Remote Management: winrm qc -q. Start group policy by running the following command:%SYSTEMROOT% System32 gpedit.msc.

Under the Computer Configuration node, expand the Administrative Templates node, then expand the Windows Components node, then select the Event Forwarding node. Right-click the SubscriptionManager setting, and select Properties. Enable the SubscriptionManager setting, and click the Show button to add a server address to the setting. Add at least one setting that specifies the event collector computer. The SubscriptionManager Properties window contains an Explain tab that describes the syntax for the setting.

After the SubscriptionManager setting has been added, run the following command to ensure the policy is applied: gpupdate /force Configuring the event collector computer. Run the following command from an elevated privilege command prompt on the Windows Server domain controller to configure Windows Remote Management: winrm qc -q. Run the following command to configure the Event Collector service: wecutil qc /q. Create a source initiated subscription.

This can either be done programmatically, by using the Event Viewer, or by using. For more information about how to create the subscription programmatically, see the code example in.

If you use Wecutil.exe, you must create an event subscription XML file and use the following command: wecutil cs configurationFile.xml The following XML is an example of the contents of a subscription configuration file that creates a source-initiated subscription to forward events from the Application event log of a remote computer to the ForwardedEvents log on the event collector computer. SampleSISubscription SourceInitiated Source Initiated Subscription Sample true

The default descriptor grants members of the Domain Computers domain group, as well as the local Network Service group (for the local forwarder), the ability to raise events for this subscription. To validate that the subscription works correctly. On the event collector computer complete the following steps:. Run the following command from an elevated privilege command prompt on the Windows Server domain controller to get the runtime status of the subscription: wecutil gr. Verify that the event source has connected. You might need to wait until the refresh interval specified in the policy is over after you create the subscription for the event source to be connected.

Run the following command to get the subscription information: wecutil gs. Get the DeliveryMaxItems value from the subscription information. On the event source computer, raise the events that match the query from the event subscription. The DeliveryMaxItems number of events must be raised for the events to be forwarded. On the event collector computer, validate that the events have been forwarded to the ForwardedEvents log or to the log specified in the subscription. Setting up a source initiated subscription where the event sources are not in the same domain as the event collector computer.

Configure the event collector computer by completing the following steps. Import the.pfx file containing client authentication certificate to the Trusted Root Certificates node using following command: certutil -p -importPFX.

Create a source initiated subscription. You can use the Event Viewer application to create the subscription. Open Event Viewer and create a new subscription. Enter the subscription name, description, and event query. Add the event source computer using the Add non-domain computers button. Click the Add certificates button.

In the certificate list, select the client authentication certificate that was exported from the source computer and imported to the collector computer. Click the Advanced button and select HTTPS. Complete the subscription by clicking on the OK button. Check the subscription status (it should be Active) using the following command: wecutil gr If the source computer does not appear in the command output, you can wait until the refresh interval specified in the policy is over, and then check the status again to make sure it is active.