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Jan 22, 2021 · Remember Tucows Downloads? The freeware and shareware downloads website is finally retiring. “Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run,” CEO Elliot Noss writes in a blog post. “We’re ...
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We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site. We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity.
Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX, TSX: TC) today announced it has retired the software downloads site that started it all. TUCOWS, which then stood for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software, started on a library computer in Flint, MI in 1993. 28 years later, it served up its last software download.
Jan 22, 2021 · Tucows has decided, therefore, to finally shut down Tucows Downloads. “Tucows Downloads is old,” Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows said. “Old sites are a maintenance challenge and therefore a risk.“
- Nick Summers
Jan 21, 2021 · Nearly 3 decades after first launching though, Tucows has pivoted to become a domain registrar, wholesale domain name seller, and the company behind the Ting Internet fiber optic service.
Jan 25, 2021 · An example is Tucows, now a major domain name registrar, who have finally announced the closure of their software library that was such an essential destination in those times.
The freeware and shareware downloads website is finally retiring. “Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run,” CEO Elliot Noss writes in a blog post.
