Sometimes good ideas do translate into good businesses. This is a huge milestone for Tucows. We got into the competitive registration business officially in 1999 when we were accredited as a fully-fledged registrar by ICANN. Prior to that we were simply a reseller for Network Solutions who had a monopoly on all sales of .com, .net and .org.
We did our first competitive registration on January 12, 2000. We were 85th in the market according to DomainWatch. Last night, we registered our 4,000,000th domain name - one in ten gTLD registrations is managed through Tucows - making us the number two player in that market.
Thanks to the entire team, the last four years has been a blast and achieving little milestones like this here and there seems to indicate that the best is yet to come.
Congratulations! Those of us who were around at the beginning (I registered my first domain through TUCOWS on February 17...it took a little while to get things working on Windows NT) know how much you personally did to pull this off.
Four million in just over four years! That really is an awesome achievement. Congrats to the entire team at Tucows.
Are you going to hang a sign out front like McDonald's?
Congratz.