- Business
- Tucows Inc. is an internet services and telecommunications company that operates through three primary segments: Tucows Domains, Ting Internet, and Wavelo. Tucows Domains provides wholesale and retail domain name registration services under brands including OpenSRS, eNom, Ascio, EPAG, and Hover; hosted email; SSL digital certificates; internet security services; WHOIS privacy; publishing tools; and other value-added services through a global reseller network of over 35,000 web hosts and internet service providers, managing more than 25 million domain names primarily in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Ting Internet delivers high-speed gigabit fiber and fixed wireless internet access to retail consumers and small businesses in select towns and cities across the United States; Wavelo offers software-as-a-service platforms and professional services for communication service providers, including subscription and billing management under the Platypus brand, network orchestration and provisioning, individual developer tools, MONOS (Mobile Network Operating System) used by Dish Network, and ISOS (Internet Services Operating System). Founded in 1993 and headquartered at 96 Mowat Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the company allocates capital and shared services across its businesses while targeting resellers, internet service providers, mobile virtual network operators, fiber internet services, and end-users in North America and Europe. Recent developments include the announcement of a $40 million stock buyback program in February 2025, set to run through February 2026 via the Nasdaq Capital Market; selection by Radix in August 2025 as its back-end registry services provider for approximately ten million domain names across eleven TLDs, expanding Tucows' oversight to about seventeen million domains upon migration completion in November 2025; and initiation of a strategic review process for Ting Internet, including a potential sale, to refocus on domains and Wavelo businesses as highlighted in the Q3 2025 earnings call.