Heh... I wondered about that one myself.
I guess Enom is taking a $1 loss on their domain sales now huh?
I guess Enom is taking a $1 loss on their domain sales now huh?
-Mark
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From: "Ramy Nabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors
You get the domain for US$5 / year?
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> 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
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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.
> >
> >
