Tucows Signs Revised ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement
June 30 2009 - 1:44PM
PR Newswire (US)
Improves Protections for Domain Holders and Includes a Two Cent
ICANN Fee Reduction to be Passed Along to Resellers TORONTO, June
30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tucows Inc. (AMEX:TCXAMEX:TSX:TC), a
global provider of domain names, email and other Internet services,
today announced that it has signed the revised Registrar
Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with ICANN at the organization's 35th
International Meeting in Sydney, Australia. The new agreement takes
effect July 1, 2009. Customers of OpenSRS, the wholesale Reseller
services division of Tucows Inc., will immediately see a reduction
in the ICANN Fee associated with Global Top-level Domain
registrations purchased through the OpenSRS platform. That fee will
drop to $0.18 cents effective July 1, 2009. "We're pleased to be
amongst the first group of Registrars to sign the new RAA," said
Adam Eisner, Director, Domain Services, Tucows. "This revised
agreement reinforces the commitment Tucows, the greater registrar
community and ICANN all have to the protection of individual domain
holders." The revised RAA contains new regulations to safeguard the
rights of domain name holders who purchase names through resellers
of domain names, including new measures designed to ensure that
Registrant data protected by WHOIS privacy services is properly
escrowed. About Tucows Tucows is a global Internet services
company. OpenSRS manages over 8 million domain names and millions
of email boxes through a reseller network of over 9,000 web hosts
and ISPs. Hover is the easiest way for individuals and small
businesses to manage their domain names and email addresses.
YummyNames owns premium domain names that generate revenue through
advertising or resale. Butterscotch.com is an online video network
building on the foundation of Tucows.com. More information can be
found at http://tucowsinc.com/. DATASOURCE: Tucows Inc. CONTACT:
Lawrence Chamberlain, The Equicom Group for Tucows Inc., (416)
815-0700 ext. 257,
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