I’m Craig Cluett, the Director of the Business Development team at Tucows. I’ve been with the company for three months and am proud of the energy and enthusiasm we show for our resellers and services.

On Saturday, I was part of a team from Tucows that went to to London as sponsors of the LINX59 Meeting. As one of the world’s largest and longest established Internet exchanges, LINX is a who’s who of London’s ISPs, network providers and operators. We really appreciated the warm welcome we received from the LINX group and their members.

LINX’s John Souter (CEO) and Grahame Davies (Chairman) have a lot to be proud of. The forums they offer their members are top-shelf, extremely well run and thoroughly organized. Hats off to Jeremy Orbell, Neana Singh, Jennifer Atherton, and the rest of the good folks of LINX.

The topics covered during the two day event were chosen by the members and were for the members. The end result was good discussion and greater understanding between everyone. Our very own Kim Phelan started off the two days of discussion with a brief overview of Tucows and how we go to market with our 8,500+ partners (1,000 of which are in the UK) in our key offerings of wholesale domain names and hosted email.

Adam Eisner, while not subbing in as Kim’s personal photographer (at the request of the communication team back home in the “colonies”), was kept busy chatting with the 100 plus members in attendance.

Part of the magic of the LINX forum is the special attention put into the significant networking opportunities across a number of venues (a.k.a. pubs) where the discussions get lively and great strides towards shared understanding are made. All in all, it was a productive couple of days for everyone and Tucows will be looking into becoming a member of one of the world’s largest and longest established Internet exchanges.

Cheers to all our new friends at LINX!

Update: As promised, a few pictures from the LINX meeting.