Tucows Reinforces Commitment to Messaging Business

Tucows Inc.: "With this acquisition, Tucows becomes a leader in hosted email, especially hosted email for Internet service providers and web hosting companies," said Elliot Noss, President and CEO, Tucows Inc. "It is consistent with our strategy to be a leading provider of Internet services to service providers. It will deepen our relationships with existing customers, add a number of new service provider customers and further diversify our revenue streams."

This is a pretty exciting step for us. Like I was saying to John Kane last week, we’ ve never been solely focused on domain registrations like most other accredited registrars. We’re in the business of managing relationships and services for internet services providers – this goes a long way towards reinforcing this in a very practical sense.

I’m quite pleased with this acquisition and am really looking forward to working with the new folks from Critical Path that will be joining the team.

I’m also dying to get a look under the hood of the infrastructure so that Joey and I can get a better sense of what goodies are in store for the Tucows developer community. Stay tuned for more on this front.

Elliot and Joey cut a podcast earlier that runs through some Q&A about the deal. RSS here, direct download here. There’s also some more give and take on the Tucows IR web pages here.