Announcements

Hidden Backdoor Found In WordPress Captcha Plugin Affects Over 300,000 Sites

  • 20th December 2017
With the amount of WordPress sites living on our network we felt that everyone should be aware of a Captcha plugin by BestWebSoft that is called Captcha Pro. The developer sold the plugin to an undisclosed buyer who then placed a backdoor in the code base which then is placed in a wordpress site using this plugin when the plugin is ...
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Phishing attacks against registrars

  • 5th November 2015
You may have heard that many high-profile domain registrars are being targeted by a massive phishing attack against domain owners. We have received reports that some of those attacks are using Tucows branded emails to target some of our clients. The fraudulent emails claim that a particular domain name has been suspended and ask users to click a ...
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Remote Assistance

  • 9th April 2015
We are now offering remote assistance for any problems configuring your mail client. Cost for this service is $85 per hour and can be requested by contacting support.
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Domain Registrant verification

  • 12th February 2014
Registrant verification is a new requirement in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) that requires all registrars to verify the registrant’s contact name and email address during a new registration, transfers in or contact updates, if not previously verified.The validation process is a 15 day window during which a Registrant must ...
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