TCX Tucows Inc

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 1741 of the Pennsylvania corporate Law, the PBCL, empowers a corporation to indemnify any officer or director acting in his or her capacity as a representative of the corporation who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any action or proceeding against expenses, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement in connection with such action or proceeding whether the action was instituted by a third-party or arose by or in the right of the corporation. The PBCL limits the ability of a corporation to indemnify its officers and directors for conduct constituting willful misconduct or recklessness, or acts in violation of criminal statute.

Our bylaws provide that we will indemnify our director and officers against any liability (including any damage, judgment, amount paid in settlement, fine, penalty, punitive damages, excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan, or cost or expense of any nature (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees and disbursements)) incurred in connection with any proceeding (including any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, appeal or other proceeding of any nature, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, whether formal or informal, and whether brought by or in our right, a class of its security holders or otherwise) in which the director or officer may be involved as a party or otherwise by reason of the fact that he or she is or was serving in such person’s capacity as our director or officer if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, our best interests and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was not unlawful, except: (a) where such indemnification is expressly prohibited by applicable law; or (b) where the conduct of the director or officer has been finally determined (i) to constitute willful misconduct or recklessness within the meaning of Section 1746(b) of PBCL or any superseding provision of law sufficient in the circumstances to bar indemnification against liabilities arising from the conduct; or (ii) to be based upon or attributable to the receipt by the director or officer from us of a personal benefit to which the director or officer is not legally entitled.

Our bylaws further provide that any indemnification will be made by us only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth herein. The determination will be made: (a) by our Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to the action or proceeding, (b) if such a quorum is not obtainable or if obtainable and a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion; or (c) by our shareholders.

If the director or officer is entitled to indemnification in respect of a portion, but not all, of any liabilities to which such person may be subject, we will indemnify the director or officer to the maximum extent for such portion of the liabilities.

The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent will not of itself create a presumption that the director or officer did not act in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, our best interests and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.

A director or officer will be entitled to indemnification within 30 days after a written request for indemnification has been delivered to our Secretary. If a written request is not paid in full by us within 30 days after such claim has been received by us, the director or officer may at any time thereafter initiate an action to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in whole or in part, the director or officer will also be entitled to be paid the expenses of prosecuting such action.

We will not indemnify a director or officer for any liability incurred in a proceeding initiated (which will not be deemed to include counter claims or affirmative defenses) or participated in as an intervenor or amicus curiae by the person seeking indemnification unless such initiation of or participation in the proceeding is authorized, either before or after its commencement, by our Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to the proceeding, subject to certain exceptions.

To the extent that a director or officer has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Section 1741 or Section 1742 of PBCL or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person will be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.

We will pay the expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements) incurred in good faith by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by us. The financial ability of a director or officer to repay an advance will not be a prerequisite to the making of such advance.

Further, our bylaws provide that the board of directors may authorize us to purchase and maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, insuring against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in his capacity or arising out of his status as a director and/or officer to the extent authorized by law.