Oversee.net has confirmed that the company has let go of 10% of its staff as of Friday. The company blames the downturn in the economy. A spokesperson told SocalTech “the cuts were in response to the general economic weakness and pressures in the industry.” According to the report cuts were made across [...]

According to an email sent to Resellers, Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) has now re-branded their wholesale services to use the old OpenSRS (SRS = Shared Registrar System). The new site resides under the OpenSRS.com domain, whereas the original site used to be hosted under OpenSRS.org. The change will also be announced at HostingCon, which is currently being [...]

Tucows has chosen Afternic as their exclusive partner for auctioning their daily inventory of expiring domains. When Tucows decided to end their in-house drop auction, there were questions regarding where they would send their domains. After some investigative work by DotWeekly and an official announcement on the Afternic frontpage, the answer is now clear. [via Domain Name [...]

According to a press release SnapNames has renewed their partnership with register.com for listing non-renewed names for auction. After being purchased by Oversee.NET SnapNames had previously lost the exclusive inventory from Network Solutions to the newly launched NameJet. Tucows recently announced that they are dropping their own aftermarket auction as of June 10th, but have [...]

Tucows has announced a new service that gives people the chance to own their own name – on the internet. In 2006, Tucows purchased NetIdentity, a business offering email and web addresses for many of the more popular American and European names. Tucows announced today that it has over 150,000 domain names in its private portfolio [...]