Personalized email and website services

TORONTO, CANADA: Tucows Inc., a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs worldwide, today announced that it has partnered with Web.com, a leading provider of online marketing services for small business, to offer Tucows's OpenSRS Personal Names Service. Through personal names, Web.com will offer personalized email and web addresses for people looking to showcase their name brand for their business.

"As a market leader in providing online services to small and medium-sized businesses, Web.com's selection of our Personal Names Service underscores the importance of email to customer retention for service providers," says Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows. "Too many service providers are content to let their users get email from Google, Yahoo or Microsoft without realizing the cost to their business. Web.com recognizes that a quality email experience with a great, personalized email address is appealing and important to keep customers happy, retention high and word-of-mouth growing."

OpenSRS Personal Names is ideal for small business owners, sole proprietors or SOHOs looking to showcase and associate their name brand with their company within their email or web address, such as amy@smith.net for their email address and amy.smith.net for their web address.

"We are always looking to make the services we offer to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) more effective," says Jeff Stibel, President of Web.com. "This partnership with Tucows enables us to provide SMBs with a customized email address directly related to their own name."

The majority of Americans will now find their own name waiting for them at Web.com