TORONTO, CANADA, August 16, 2002 — Tucows Inc. (OTCBB: TCOW), a leading provider of Internet services to Internet service providers (ISPs) and web hosting companies worldwide, today announced the sale of its search and reference services eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com to Chicago-based Alacritude, LLC, a company investing in activities at the intersection of technology and media. eLibrary, a comprehensive, subscription-based online information resource, and Encyclopedia.com, a basic online research tool, were properties that Tucows acquired as a result of its merger with Infonautics, Inc., in August 2001.
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Customers Enjoy Cost-Savings and Operating Efficiencies From Outsourced Registration Infrastructure

TORONTO, CANADA, August 13, 2002 - Tucows Inc. (OTCBB: TCOW), in direct response to the changing needs of its channel partners, today announced the general availability of its hosted registrar services platform, OpenHRS. OpenHRS is an outsourced technical infrastructure solution that allows ICANN-accredited registrars to process and manage domain registrations from a single platform without having to build their own back-office processing systems. OpenHRS customers are free to focus on their core business activities while Tucows maintains and operates their back-office registration infrastructure. The service incorporates processing infrastructure, connectivity to registries and ongoing support for top-level domains (TLDs) such as .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .name and .us.
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Company reports first quarterly operating profit

TORONTO, CANADA, August 7, 2002 - Tucows Inc. (OTCBB: TCOW), a leading provider of Internet services to ISPs and Web hosting companies worldwide, today reported its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2002, ended June 30, 2002. The Company continued its strong operational and financial performance, achieving:
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