In November 2025, Radix will move its entire portfolio of domain extensions from Team Internet, formerly known as CentralNic, to Tucows Registry. This is not a small adjustment in the background. It involves around ten million domain names across eleven TLDs, including .online, .store, .tech, .site, .fun, .host, .press, .space, .uno, .website, and the country-code .pw.
For Tucows, the move is a major expansion. Once the migration is complete, the company will oversee about seventeen million domains in total. That figure includes other recent additions, such as the .in names from India. For Team Internet, it is the loss of a client they have served since the first wave of new gTLDs launched in 2012. The timing makes the change even more striking, coming soon after they secured the .co back-end business from GoDaddy.
Back-end changes at this scale do not happen overnight. They are usually the result of months of talks, technical checks, and side-by-side comparisons. Radix says it carried out a competitive evaluation before choosing Tucows. That choice suggests a calculated decision about long-term stability, performance, and the ability to support growth.
From the outside, it might seem like a purely technical change. For registrants, day-to-day use of their domains should remain the same. But at the registry and registrar level, the switch means new systems, new connections, and new operational habits. Tucows will become the central point for all technical registry functions for Radix’s TLDs, and registrars will need to connect to its platform.
This move is also a reminder that even long-standing relationships in the domain industry have a shelf life. A decade of partnership was not enough to keep Radix from changing providers when it believed there was a better option. For other registry operators and their partners, it is a signal that the back-end is no longer an invisible commodity. It is a strategic choice that can influence the competitiveness and image of a TLD.
When the cutover happens in November, the public might not notice much. But inside the industry, it will mark one of the most significant registry migrations in years. For Tucows, it is a step toward greater scale and influence. For Radix, it is a bet on a new technical foundation for the next phase of its growth. And for everyone else watching, it is proof that the quiet parts of the domain business can still shift the ground under our feet.