Today we had a customer call to inform us that he intends to transfer his Web hosting and domain registration elsewhere. The reason? Because we're doing business with Canadians.
He did some research into his domain name and ferreted out the secret we all so desperately try to keep hidden: Tucows has a Canadian address, and is in fact staffed by known Canadians. He's from the Southern US, and informed us that he would only do business with American companies. "Canadians don't like us", he stated. He further noted that if you give Canadians money, "you're just feeding the wolves." It's not clear whether he felt that the Canadian people were metaphorical wolves when it comes to finance, or if he literally thought the money was used to feed a pack of wolves, which Tucows presumably keeps for protection against grizzlies, etc., while crossing the howling wild tundra around Toronto. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
