Retiring it is the right move but that doesn’t alter the fact that it will always hold a special place in hearts and our story. Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run. Maintaining the Tucows Downloads site pulls people away from the work that moves our businesses forward. Old sites are a maintenance challenge and therefore a risk. Most seriously in 2016 when instead, we decided to go ad-free, keeping the site up as a public service. We talked about shutting the site down before. At the same time, we’re building the Mobile Services Enabler SaaS platform that is powering DISH’s entry into the US mobile market.įor the past several years, history, well sentimentality, has been the only reason to keep Tucows Downloads around. Ting Internet is building fiber-optic networks all over the U.S. OpenSRS (and along the way our acquisitions of Enom, Ascio and EPAG) are the SaaS platforms upon which tens of thousands of customers have built their own domain registration businesses, registering tens of millions of domains on behalf of their customers. Hover offers domain names and email at retail to help people brand their life online. Today, Tucows is the second-largest domain name registrar in the world behind Go Daddy and the largest wholesaler of domain names in the world with customers like Shopify and other global website builder platforms. It’s been a long time since Tucows has been TUCOWS, which stood for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software.

Tucows has grown and evolved as a business. Far more quickly than anyone could have imagined.Ī lot has changed since those early years.

What started as a place for people in the know to download software became the place to download software on the burgeoning Internet. The shareware downloads bulletin board system (BBS) that would become Tucows Downloads was founded back in 1993 on a library computer in Flint, MI.

We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity.

We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site.

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