Tucows
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Tucows is an acronym for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock(et) Software, and is the name of a popular website containing hundreds of shareware, freeware, and demo software packages. A system of mirror sites are maintained to allow the traffic to the site to be distributed among several world wide server locations. Despite the name, Tucows contains software for many major computer platforms including Linux and Macintosh, and also older versions of Windows (most notably the Windows 3.x series).
The Tucows mascot is, whimsically, two cows staring at each other. Additionally, their ratings system uses cow icons.
Tucows as a freeware download site was created by Scott Swedorski in 1993, and through the early history of the commercial Web was a major destination. The site was bought out by internet service provider Internet Direct in 1995, changed hands several times, and now sells a range of internet services. It still maintains a download archive, although some listing features are only available on a for-pay basis.
Domain reseller
Tucows has become one of the largest domain resellers, along with Go Daddy and Network Solutions.
External links
- Tucows website (http://www.tucows.com/)