As General Manager of the domain name portfolio, Sweetman is responsible for developing and executing a strategy to further monetize the Tucows domain portfolio for the Company and its wholesale customers, including the Tucows Parked Pages program. Sweetman will work with a dedicated staff to manage across all of Tucows’s cross-functional teams and ensure that customer input is integrated into all efforts.

Mr. Sweetman is based in Toronto, and will operate within the product management division of Tucows, led by Ken Schafer, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing.

Mr. Schafer remarked, ”Bill brings an extensive background in Internet marketing and domain name expertise to Tucows. By leading our efforts to increase the value of our domain portfolio, we are confident Bill will drive significant innovation and quickly align us with the rapidly changing domain name marketplace.”

Mr. Sweetman is a respected authority on Internet marketing. His innovative work over the last 15 years has been recognized by numerous awards, including the prestigious Internet World Impact Award for Communications. Prior to joining Tucows, Mr. Sweetman was Vice-President, Internet strategy at MacLaren MRM, the digital arm of MacLaren McCann, Canada’s largest advertising agency.

Mr. Sweetman commented, ”In fifteen years working in Internet marketing, I’ve never seen a more compelling opportunity to join a leading organization and assume responsibility for such an important part of the business. With our unique position as a wholesale registrar, and with passionate and committed teams and strong commitment behind this initiative, I’m very excited to lead the evolution of the Tucows domain name portfolio.”

Mr. Sweetman frequently speaks at conferences and is widely regarded by the media as an Internet marketing expert. He is one of the founders of the Canadian New Media Awards, and contributes regularly to various trade publications and blogs.

Recently, Tucows reduced its wholesale domain name pricing, instituting a new cost structure transparency, with free domain services. Additionally, the cost breakdown of a domain name is now transparent to customers, revealing Registry and ICANN fees as well as the Tucows management fee. This new pricing structure will provide increased visibility for wholesale domain customers ahead of the announced October 2007 Registry domain name price increases.

The management fee provides Tucows wholesale domains customers with access to a domain name suggestion tool powered by DomainsBot, a 50% share of net domain parking advertising revenues, and the ability to sell domains from a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of premium domain names from the domain aftermarket. Beginning September 1, WHOIS Privacy and Managed DNS will be included with each domain name purchase at no charge. Tucows wholesale domain customers also get access to a library of APIs and web-based tools for provisioning and management of domains along with Tier II technical support.

Since 1993, Tucows.com has offered a directory of shareware, freeware and demo software packages available to download. This redesign places Solutions to common problems front-and-center on the homepage and throughout the site. New and enhanced community tools include user ratings, rankings for Solutions (on the Tucows 5-cow rating system), and user comments on Software and Solutions. Users will also be able to submit their own Solutions to the site.

The Tucows software directory includes over 40,000 listings and has been improved and streamlined. It includes categories for Audio and Video, Business, Design Tools, Desktop Enhancements, Development and Web Authoring, Games, Home and Education, IS/IT, and Internet. These categories are sorted into PC, Mac, Linux, Web and PDA platforms.

Tucows Inc. provides Internet services and download libraries through a global distribution network of 6,000 service providers. The distribution network primarily consists of web hosting companies, ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and other Internet related service companies. The companies use Tucows’ provisioned services to offer solutions to customer: enterprises, small and medium businesses and consumers. Tucows is an accredited registrar with ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and earns most of its revenue from domain name registration services plus hosted email, spam and virus protection, blogware, website building tools, the Platypus Billing System and digital certificates.

To learn more about Tucows, please visit: www.tucowsinc.com.

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