I dont know about you, but I have had excellent service at enom. As a
matter of fact, I got TWO responses from them today alone (from emails
I sent only a few hours ago).
I loved my old tucows registrar (fantastic customer service), but when I
can register a domain (and have full control of many different services,
including instant DNS changes) for FIVE dollars -less- PER DOMAIN...
PRICE DOES MATTER. (Especially when you have hundreds of
domains)
-Kenn ('now where did I put my 2 cents...')
www.SiteLance.com
On 6 Sep 2002 at 20:22, Csongor Fagyal wrote:
>
> Mark Petersen wrote:
> 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
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> Sent:Friday, September 06, 2002 10:08 AM
> Subject:2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors
>
> Well 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.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
