Internet services provider Tucows has teamed up with Web.com (News - Alert) to offer Tucows's OpenSRS Personal Names Service. Web.com specializes in online marketing services for small businesses. This service will allow Web.com to offer personalized email and web addresses to customers so that they can highlight 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," said Elliot Noss, president and CEO of Tucows. "Too many service providers are content to let their users get email from Google, Yahoo or Microsoft (News - Alert) 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."

 

Small business owners, sole proprietors or SOHOs who wish to associate their name brand with their company through their email or web address, can greatly benefit from OpenSRS Personal Names.

 

"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 (News - Alert) enables us to provide SMBs with a customized email address directly related to their own name."

 

Tucows is an Internet services company serving web hosting companies and ISPs. The company boasts a worldwide network of over 9,000 service providers. Through this network, the Tucows OpenSRS group offers millions of email boxes and manages more than eight million domains. An accredited registrar with ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), Tucows has a repertoire of almost 150,000 domain names that are available for sale.