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Haha. Guess who I’ve seen around Toronto on “tech swag” backpacks? https://www.tucows.com/ https://www.tucows.com/

• netsharc 7y ago
  They don't offer software downloads any more? I browsed Tucows a lot, looking for cool new software..
  • 52-6F-62 7y ago
    Same! It looks like they’ve completely junked their old content and pivoted hard.
    • kick 7y ago
      No, they haven't. http://www.tucows.com/downloads/ http://www.tucows.com/downloads/
      • 52-6F-62 7y ago
        I’ll be damned. I just didn’t see that anywhere on the main site. That’s also a blast from the past. Look at the number one freeware download: https://ibb.co/gDZjjBf https://ibb.co/gDZjjBf
  • whatsmyusername 7y ago
    Now they're just a domain registrar for the alt right.
    • wolco 7y ago
      For the alt right, that sounds oddly selective? Do you have a source?
    • chipotle_coyote 7y ago
      Like wolco, I'd kinda like a source for that claim, also. Tucows owns Hover, as well as being the back end for domain resellers through OpenSRS. To the best of my knowledge, Hover has never come up as "the preferred registrar of white supremacists"; while it's not at all unlikely that a reseller who uses OpenSRS's infrastructure has provided registration services to unpleasant characters, that would be a rather weaker claim against them.
      • whatsmyusername 7y ago
        They didn't mind being a registrar for 8chan for years.
• duxup 7y ago
  I remember spotting tucows again when 8chan was trying to get back online they used Tucows. It was like running into that old buddy from school and he lets slip he is into some horrible stuff now...
• marcolussetti 7y ago
  Nowadays they're actually one of the world's largest registrars via their subsidiaries.