More than a year ago, Tucows adjusted the revenue opportunities available to mirrors. While rebates for domain names was phased out, opportunities to sell advertising space on the downloaded Tucows' page was added.
Right now there is a 110x60 space on the top right hand side of the downloaded pages. Mirrors can resell this ad space or use it to promote their own products. As of September 30 this will become a 468x60 banner that will appear on the center top of the page.
As well, mirrors can place a domain look ups above the fold on third level pages to help drive domain sales to them.
Here is a screenshot of where the ad is located:
http://resellers.tucows.com/content/mirrordownloadsites/images/affad.gif
I hope this helps
Sincerely
Jacqueline Cook
Director Marketing, Tucows
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Subject: 2 more Q's-
Affiliate/Mirrors
Thanks for the replies. I have two more questions.
1) We are running a download mirror for Tucows. Our bandwidth/transfer costs have escalated and we are considering terminating this. What benefits do we get as a mirror aside from the logo on the Tucows page which we get almost no clicks on?
2) When we do a domain registration and it asks for our "Affiliate ID" the price we pay for the domain doesn't seem to be affected whether or not we input our Affiliate ID. Are there any benefits to being an affiliate? It's been so long since we signed up, but I thought I remembered that affiliates got some kind of rebate. We certainly haven't gotten any rebates for a long time.
