The company was formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1993. The Tucows logo is two cow heads, a play on the homophone `two cows.` ==Company history== Scott Swedorski started Tucows in 1993 to provide users with downloads of both freeware and trial versions of shareware. The name originally was an acronym for The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software. ..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucows