Type of business | Public |
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Traded as | |
Founded | 1993Flint, Michigan | in
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
Key people | Elliot Noss (CEO) Dave Singh (CFO) Bret Fausett (chief legal officer) Justin Reilly (CEO, Wavelo) David Woroch (CEO, Tucows Domains) Robin Chase (chairman) Scott Swedorski (founder) [1] |
Industry | Internet services mobile telecommunications telecom billing |
Products | OpenSRS Hover Enom Ascio |
Services | domain name registration email hostings SSL Certificates Internet service provider |
Revenue | US$329 million (2017)[2] |
Net income | US$22 million USD (2017)[2] |
Employees | ~1000[3] |
Divisions | Ting Internet Ting Mobile (acquired by Dish) Tucows Domains Wavelo |
URL | tucows |
Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States.[4] The company is composed of three independent businesses: Tucows Domains, Ting Internet, and Wavelo.[5]
Originally founded in 1993 as a shareware and freeware software download site, Tucows shuttered its downloads business in 2021. Tucows Domains is the second-largest domain registrar worldwide and operates OpenSRS, Ascio, and Hover.
In 2012, Tucows launched Ting Mobile, a wireless service provider and used the same brand to launch its fiber Internet provider business Ting Internet in 2015. In 2020, Tucows sold its wireless business to Dish Network,[6] while they continued to operate Ting Internet.[7] The billing platform Tucows built for Ting Mobile was spun off into an independent OSS/BSS SaaS business, Wavelo.[8]
The company was formed in Flint, Michigan, United States, in 1993. The Tucows logo was two cow heads, a play on the homophone "two cows".