Hover (domain registrar)

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Hover
Type Private company
Industry Domain Name Registration
Founded 2008
Headquarters Toronto, Canada
Key people Ross Rader, General Manager
Products Domain, email, and other web services
Website hover.com

Hover is an Internet domain name registration service. Hover is a division of Tucows Incorporated, the third largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, only behind GoDaddy and eNom.[1] Tucows is the largest publicly traded registrar and a technology company serving thousands of businesses and millions of Internet users worldwide since 1994. As of March 2010, Tucows is currently managing over 10 million domain names online.[2]

History

Hover was founded in July 2008 by Tucows Inc. after deciding to merge the three domain registration services they already owned, NetIdentity, It's Your Domain (IYD), and Domain Direct.[3] All NetIdentity, It's Your Domain (IYD), and Domain Direct customers are forwarded to Hover.com for all of their domain, email, and web service management needs.

Business

Hover takes a simple approach to domain sales, using the Tucows wholesale reseller services provided by OpenSRS as its foundation. Hover's primary objective is a pleasant, simplistic customer experience, resulting in their simple user interface, and going so far as to remove their automated answering system from their customer support lines so that customers only have to deal with a person rather than a machine.[4] Hover offers four simple packages, of which all include one domain name, with an option to choose from 1 email address, 6 emails addresses, 10 email addresses, or no email addresses with the domain name.[5] All packages include private registration, an option that is sold separately with many other domain registrars.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Largest ICANN Registrars". WebHosting.Info. Retrieved 26 November 2013. 
  2. ↑ Tucows Reaches 10 Million Domains Under Management
  3. ↑ Say Hello to Hover
  4. ↑ Hover announces no wait customer service
  5. ↑ Hover Packages

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