Domain Registration
Tucows is the third largest ICANN-accredited registrar in the world and the company is the largest publicly traded registrar.[9] Tucows was the first competitive registrar to compete seriously with Network Solutions for market share when Tucows began selling domain names for $10 in January, 2000.[18] Up until 2000 Network Solutions was the only registrar and sold domain names for $30 and up. By the end of the first year of competition in domain names sales Network Solutions' market share had fallen from 100% to 52.9%.[18]
In the Quarterly Earnings Call for Tucows' third quarter held on November 6, 2007, President Elliot Noss said that Tucows hadn't been "competitive enough around price" in their wholesale domain name business and announced a substantial price cut in Tucows wholesale domain name services.[19]