It’s Labor Day in Canada and the U.S. on Monday, September 3, which means we’ll be operating with reduced holiday hours.
Our normal hours will resume on Tuesday, September 4. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!
Once again, Tucows will be present at this fall’s ISPCON, which bills itself as “The Internet Industry Event”. It takes place from Tuesday, October 16 through Thursday, October 18 at San Jose McEnery Convention Center, in San Jose, California.
Ken Schafer, our VP of Marketing and Product Development, will be making a presentation titled 30 Rapid-fire Website Wins, Guaranteed, which comes with this guarantee: If at the end of the session, you don’t feel you have at least five techniques that will improve YOUR site, Ken will personally assess your site and give you five ways to improve it!
We’ll also have a booth on the exhibit floor where we’ll be talking about what’s new in domains, demonstrating our hosted email service and Platypus billing system and handing out swag including our beloved Squishy Cows.
If you’d like to meet us, there’s a way to do it free: ISPCON “Exhibits and Events” passes are available for free until August 31. This pass gives you access to:
After August 31st, these passes will cost $50. If you want a free “Exhibits and Events” pass, go to ISPCON’s registration page and sign up now!
Once again, Tucows will be present at this fall’s ISPCON, which bills itself as “The Internet Industry Event”. It takes place from Tuesday, October 16 through Thursday, October 18 at San Jose McEnery Convention Center, in San Jose, California.
Ken Schafer, our VP of Marketing and Product Development, will be making a presentation titled 30 Rapid-fire Website Wins, Guaranteed, which comes with this guarantee: If at the end of the session, you don’t feel you have at least five techniques that will improve YOUR site, Ken will personally assess your site and give you five ways to improve it!
We’ll also have a booth on the exhibit floor where we’ll be talking about what’s new in domains, demonstrating our hosted email service and Platypus billing system and handing out swag including our beloved Squishy Cows.
If you’d like to meet us, there’s a way to do it free: ISPCON “Exhibits and Events” passes are available for free until August 31. This pass gives you access to:
After August 31st, these passes will cost $50. If you want a free “Exhibits and Events” pass, go to ISPCON’s registration page and sign up now!
By: Adam Eisner on August 27th, 2007
Posted in: OpenSRS Services
Tags: Domains Service
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A couple of weeks ago, we made a pretty big announcement that represented a fundamental shift in the way we think about domain name pricing. If you missed it, you can read all about it here. We made a couple of changes that day. First, we included more transparency in the pricing structure for domains that gives you a clear understanding of where your domain dollars are going. Second, we dropped our prices and added features to help you stay competitive in the domains marketplace.
Since that announcement went out, we’ve been working hard to build in several additional improvements all of which went live over the past weekend:
Looking ahead, we’re going to strive to continue to find innovative ideas that add value and services to our domains package.
By: Adam Eisner on August 7th, 2007
Posted in: OpenSRS Services
Tags: Domains Service
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How’s this for a radical idea: Charge less for each domain, then add more services and features and then fully explain where every penny of each transaction goes. It sounds crazy, but that’s exactly what we’re doing starting today.
Historically at Tucows, we’ve listed two separate fees for each domain name transaction: the domain price charged by Tucows and the ICANN fee charged in addition to the price. Starting on August 25 we’ll list three line items for each new purchase, renewal or transfer: the price we’re charged by the registry, the ICANN fee, and a management fee Tucows charges on each sale.
You won’t be able to see the management fee as a separate line item in your accounts until August 25, but we’ve already implemented the new pricing structure behind the scenes. Effective today our prices are based on this new management fee model. Our new base price for a .COM name, for example, has dropped from $10.05 to $9.20:
Here’s how that price breaks down:
Total: $9.20
.com, .net, .org, .info and .biz all get this cost breakdown treatment and a price drop.
As a customer, what do you get with this management fee? Quite a bit:
And starting on September 1st we’ll be adding even more value with:
We’re sure you’ll agree that this new pricing structure provides much more clarity into where your money goes when a domain is purchased through Tucows.
