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LOL ;o)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:31
PM
Subject: Re: 2 more Q's-
Affiliate/Mirrors
Heh... I wondered about that one myself.
I guess Enom is
taking a $1 loss on their domain sales now huh?
-Mark
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: 2 more Q's-
Affiliate/Mirrors
FIVE dollars -less- PER
DOMAIN... ???!!!
You get the domain for US$5 / year?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
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