Hover (Domain Registration Service)
Encyclopedia
Hover is an Internet domain name registration service
. Hover is a division of Tucows Incorporated
, the third largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, only behind GoDaddy and eNom
. Tucows is the largest publicly traded registrar and a technology company serving thousands of businesses and millions of Internet users worldwide since 1994. As of March 2010, Tucows is currently managing over 10 million domain name
s online.
, and going so far as to remove their automated answering system from their customer support lines so that customers only have to deal with a person rather than a machine. Hover offers four simple packages, of which all include one domain name, with an option to choose from 1 email address, 6 emails addresses, 10 email addresses, or no email addresses with the domain name. All packages include private registration
, an option that is sold separately with many other domain registrars.
Domain name registrar
A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by both ICANN and generic top-level domain registry to sell gTLDs and/or by a country code top-level domain registry to sell ccTLDs; to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of...
. Hover is a division of Tucows Incorporated
Tucows
Tucows was formed in Flint, Michigan, USA in 1993. It incorporated in Pennsylvania and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
, the third largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, only behind GoDaddy and eNom
ENom
eNom, Inc. is a domain name registrar and Web hosting company that also sells other products closely tied to domain names, such as SSL certificates, e-mail services, and Website building software...
. Tucows is the largest publicly traded registrar and a technology company serving thousands of businesses and millions of Internet users worldwide since 1994. As of March 2010, Tucows is currently managing over 10 million domain name
Domain name
A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System ....
s online.
History
Hover was founded in July 2008 by Tucows Inc. after deciding to merge the three domain registration services they already owned, NetIdentity, It's Your Domain (IYD), and Domain Direct. All NetIdentity, It's Your Domain (IYD), and Domain Direct customers are forwarded to Hover.com for all of their domain, email, and web service management needs.Business
Hover takes a simple approach to domain sales, using the Tucows wholesale reseller services provided by OpenSRS as its foundation. Hover's primary objective is a pleasant, simplistic customer experience, resulting in their simple user interfaceUser interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
, and going so far as to remove their automated answering system from their customer support lines so that customers only have to deal with a person rather than a machine. Hover offers four simple packages, of which all include one domain name, with an option to choose from 1 email address, 6 emails addresses, 10 email addresses, or no email addresses with the domain name. All packages include private registration
Domain privacy
Domain privacy is a service offered by a number of domain name registrars. A user buys privacy from the company, who in turn replaces the user's info in the WHOIS with the info of a forwarding service such as "Domains by Proxy, Inc." or eNom's "Whois Privacy Protection Service".-Level of...
, an option that is sold separately with many other domain registrars.