Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 11:26 am:

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I remember using a combination of Spybot & HiJackIT to eliminate most of the Spyware which were resident on my machine in 2003. A problematic Spyware entry (detected by Spybot) required a registry hack for me to finally remove. Since every time Spybot would remove it, the pesty sucker would resuscitate after a system reboot. Before finally removing it, I was able to determine the creator of the detected Spyware and this traced it back to TuCows. This is simply done by double-clicking on the entries detected by Spybot - this could be simply a tracking cookie - regardless, if there tracking the pop up ads will follow.

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Remember, TuCows is a publicly traded entity. Their responsibilities are to the shareholders - the bottom line increases the revenue stream.

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Although the company wants to generate a higher percentage of sales from other services such as blogging and anti-spam, this goal may be difficult because the domain market is growing by 20% a year.

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A recent story in The Wall Street Journal talked about how the owner of mutualfunds.com is making money by only offering sponsored links that take visitors to other Web sites. Every time one of these links are clicked on (which is likely given the visitor is clearly interested in a specific service or product), the Web site operator makes money.

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Mr. Noss (CEO), who owns 3.4% of TuCows, said the big challenge facing the company is execution and winning over investors by improving sales and profits.

"We are right in the middle of all of the exciting trends on the Internet," he said. "We don't get enough credit or respect for being a real player in the Internet. We are the biggest Canadian pure play out there."

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The following was taken from TuCows's web site.


Working with Advertising Agencies

Tucows has developed relationships with the largest interactive advertising agencies in the world. The Tucows Ad Sales team is committed to achieving the overall goals of the agency and its client, while developing strong return on investment.

Tucows is able to accommodate all third-party serving, and campaign optimization requirements of all interactive agencies.

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Their vision is not altruistic...believe me.

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A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such including a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Tucows.com uses cookies to track the items you add to your shopping card and to enforce security rules regarding software that you download.

If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. However, you need to have cookies turned on to purchase software through shop.tucows.com, and may find that browsing the www.tucows.com site operates differently.

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