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OpenSRS

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Type: Subsidiary of Tucows
Industry: Internet
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: www.opensrs.com
Blog: OpenSRS Blog
Facebook: OpenSRS
LinkedIn: OpenSRS
Twitter: @OpenSRS
Key People
Elliot Noss, President & CEO

OpenSRS is a domain names re-seller services division of Tucows, a company based in Canada engaged in providing domain name and other internet related services. The company has a portfolio of more than 11 million domain names.

Background[edit | edit source]

On January 2000, OpenSRS was launched by Tucows after the company received its accreditation from ICANN as a registrar on April 1999. The company started registering domain names under the .com, .net and .org domain space. The company added .ca (Canada) and .uk (United Kingdom), .tv (Tuvalu), .cc (Cocos), .us (United States), .cn (China), and .de (Germany) country code top level domain names (ccTLD]] as well as .info, .biz, and .name generic top level domain names (gTLDs) during the latter part of the year. In 2007, Tucows's wholesale reseller services division as OpenSRS.[1]

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