Well, maybe you should learn some history...
As early as 1993 Tucows and iDirect (which was then called Computerlink
Online) had a partnership. This partnership grew over the years until in
January 1999 when iDirect purchased direct.ca - a company called Internet
Direct in Vancouver. At that time, they company went public on the
Vancouver Stock Exchange, and Tucows split off to become a seperate
entity.
This seperation became even more official in May of 1999 when STI Ventures
provided Tucows with capital investment.
Since Tucows was associated with iDirect we had their nameservers - but
since the split we've been moving away from them, only using that
nameserver as a secondary until we get an additional namespace to run our
own Secondary.
Additionally, iDirect was purchased (65% at the time) but Look
Communications, a wireless cable and Internet provider.
Tucows and iDirect are in completely seperate offices buildings - in two
different cities, with two completely different set of staff, CEO, mission
statement, direction in the industry, etc, etc, etc.
I completely dislike your accusation of my lying, and find it baseless and
ignorant.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, X wrote:
>
>
> Charles Daminato wrote:
> >
> > LOOKTown is a service offered by Look! Internet Services (look.ca), which
> > purchased iDirect (idirect.com) and their customer base. If you have an
> > idirect.com address you'll get Spam from this.
> >
> > This has nothing to do with OpenSRS :)
> >
>
> Charles, stop lying! Do take a look at the NSLOOKUP below and give us an
> explanation why the primary DNS for tucows.com is CNS1.IDIRECT.COM :)
>
> NSLOOKUP -DNS:ns1.jaring.my -NAME:opensrs.net
>
> Query:All records (ALL):opensrs.net
> opensrs.net NS CNS1.IDIRECT.COM
> opensrs.net NS NS1.TUCOWS.COM
> opensrs.net NS CNS1.IDIRECT.COM
> opensrs.net NS NS1.TUCOWS.COM
> CNS1.IDIRECT.COM A 207.136.66.20
> NS1.TUCOWS.COM A 207.136.100.145
> Complete: opensrs.net
>
> Based on the above NSLOOKUP results, we can see that Tucows is wholely
> owned by IDIRECT :)
>
> --
> X
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