What's in a name?
In a domain name like store.example.com, the word 'store' is called a _______
What is a subdomain
TUCOWS is an acronym. What does it stand for?
What is The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
Julie Andrews would've loved this extension, considering the hills are alive with sound of it
What is .music
This domain, used by tech startups worldwide as a trendy alternative to .com, is actually the ccTLD for the Anguilla territory in the Caribbean
What is .ai
Under ICANN rules, what is the maximum number of years you can register a domain name for a single registration period?
What is 10 years
Tucows was founded in what U.S. city before eventually relocating its headquarters to Toronto
What is Flint, Michigan
Not just anyone can register this extension---it's locked behind a regulatory "vault"
What is .bank
Buckle up! This domain holds the record as the single most expensive domain name ever sold, with its value placed at $872 million in a 2014 acquisition by Gannett Co.
What system translates human-readable domain names like tucows.com into numberical IP addresses that computers use to communicate
What is the Domain Name System (DNS)
This Tucows brand consolidated properties called NetIdentity, DomainDirect, and ItsYourDomain, into a single domain registrar
What is Hover.com
My fair lady! This bridge (extension) is always falling down!
What is .london
That’s a lot of dough! This ‘delicious’ domain was registered for $20 in 1994 and flipped 14 years later for $2.6 million
What type of domain name uses non-Latin characters and requires special encoding called Punycode before it can enter DNS
What is an IDN (Internationalized Domain Name)
The acquisition of which business turned Tucows into the second largest domain name registrar and largest wholesale registrar in the world
What is Enom
A popular extension among gamer theys love to put these in the chat
What is .gg
This domain name is a misspelling of a mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros
What is google.com
ICANN enforces a mandatory lock period of how many days after a domain is newly registered, transferred between registrars, or has its registrant contact information changed
What is 60 days
In 2021, Tucows shut down this part of its original business, transferring its content to the Internet Archive
What is Tucows Downloads (the shareware/freeware site)
This Sanskrit-origin extension is what you'd call someone who really, truly knows their stuff. A master, if you will
What is .guru
This tech giant couldn’t use its own .com domain for years because it was held by the Beatles’ record company
What is Apple