Wow, my favourite topic :-) Our biggest competitor is selling joker.com domains for $12/year.... yet our revenues are increasing, so price is not everything, that is correct.Boy, how many times has this been hashed out in the past?Check the archives bud.
And, at the risk of being highly redundant, *price* is not everything.
How's the service at Enom? I wonder if they steal customers out from under their resellers like Register.Com does?Humm.... ;o)-Mark----- Original Message -----From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:08 AMSubject: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/MirrorsWell thanks for that but it brings up more questions. We used to get an "Affiliate Rebate" and a "Programs Rebate." but haven't gotten either for almost two years. Are any rebates still available?
Is there any way to get the wholesale prices lower or does Tucows/OpenSRS have any plans to cut prices?
I've been contacted by enom to resell for them and they offer lower pricing than OpenSRS. I haven't looked seriously into it yet, but it seems like our costs are going up while business has been flat for the past year. We need to cut costs wherever we can. I always liked the open/community atmosphere of Tucows but it seems to me that it is becoming more corporate and less distinguished from everyone else out there. So why should we stick around if it is just the same corporate stuff with less benefits and higher costs? What distinguishes Tucows these days from Microsoft or Verisign?
I'm not trying to cause problems, I just see our costs increasing (such as bandwidth for the mirrors) and the benefits declining here while we are struggling to stay in business - like a lot of other little guys. We've also had to cut domain registration costs dramatically to be competitive. Some of these guys offer domains for less than we pay wholesale to OpenSRS. At these rates it ends up costing us more in wholesale cost, time and effort to handle domains than it would to let someone else do it.
OTOH what about names4ever.com? They have a similar API like Open SRS has. $7.95/year. ;-)
And this also tells me that modular software design is cool. Somewhere in your code (if you have your own API) there is a line like
my $result = ®ister_domain (\%domain_data);
Now make that
my $result = ®ister_domain ($my_current_registar, \%domain_data);
And that's it - provided you can mass-transfer all of your domains. ;-)
- Cs.
