I think tucows is either a reseller of opensrs.com or partners with them.
Anyway, I just had a client that wanted to sell his domain, but the people
he registered with is out of business(an opensrs reseller). I just contacted
opensrs, they referred me to another reseller, who transferred the domain to
their dns servers. I also contacted tucows, unsure how the process works,
and I found them to be rude, and generally unhelpful. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Rapidact [mailto:gcooke(at)golden.net]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 8:11 AM
To: sales(at)pgmusic.com; hwg-business(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject: Domain Registers Bankruptcy


Hi David,

I'm using as a reseller, www.domainwizardry.com.  They're located in
Brantford Ontario, I'm paying about $13US per domain.

They are in turn a reseller for TUCOWS out of Toronto.  It's my
understanding that Tucows now registers more domains than anyone in the
world (including NSI), I assume it's unlikely they're going anywhere.  In
fact, they're now bringing out the ability to get inexpensive SSL
certificates, so they're taking on Verisign and Thawte.

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe if domainwizardry.com went belly
up that you could just renew your domains with another one of Tucows
resellers and it should be transparent.  I had some domains registered with
look.ca also a tucows reseller,and renewed them at domainwizardry with no
work at all.  And while I can manage the sites through domainwizardry, I
tend to do so right at the tucows site.

I would suspect that if TUCOWS went belly up, you'd have to head to another
registrar and pay for a transfer at that point.

HTH.
Glenn

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