<rant>
Perhaps you should consider offering products other than domain name
registrations. Someone will ALWAYS be cheaper than you. We at Im1 have
since 1996 registered domains (we used to charge 49.95 over and above the
100 netsol charged) and people were happy. We did not care about the
$49.95, we immediately gave it back as an incentive to order hosting. (as a
credit on their first hosting bill)
OpenSRS did not start this price war here, prior to OpenSRS going live
there were no reliable companies (that I am aware of) selling domains at
less than $30 per year. OpenSRS started at $15, 12, then 10 per year, and
less with rebates for affiliates.
If you do not broaden your product range and consider domains to be like
the 99 cent Whopper (gets them in the door to buy more) business will be
(much) harder for you. As an example, do any ISPs on this list actually
MAKE money on dial access? I know we don't, but we make it up on the
hosting accounts.
Shared Hosting alone is not a valid path either, some big ISPs are getting
clueful and learning (like Netsol and as ruthless) how to target and take
your core business. Mindspring is offering free domains in a mailing I got
today.
The OpenSRS price scheme is minor- what you leave out is the integrity of
the company (Tucows) and their commitment to your AUTONOMY wrt YOUR
clients. Such shallow (Oh no, someone's selling cheaper than my cost!)
thinking and lack of long term planing hardly deserves a comment. I suppose
BMW should have closed up shop when they rolled out the Yugos?
Find your market, find your speciality or locality, and position yourself -
heck, market yourself! Do something about what YOU can change, but don't
copmplain about the price, it should be only a minor part of the cost of
acquiring a customer. If ALL you do is register domains, you do a
disservice to OpenSRS, and will suffer a high rate of turnover in your
clients because you are not building a relationship as well as you could.
</rant>
Bill Laakkonen
im1.com
At 01:15 AM 8/19/00 -0400, Dave wrote:
>Oh now really.. This is absurd. You're bickering over $1.12? Please.. It's
>not like someone is forcing you to use OpenSRS.
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>I think OpenSRS is doing a damn fine job providing resale services and
>excellent support (especially via this list). I have no issues with the
>pricing whatsoever.
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>I can't believe two new "lower prices" threads started today.. *sigh*
> Dave
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>On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Harish Parwani wrote:
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>> i agree with mohit,
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>> opensrs should do something about their pricing.
>> you can check out big companies are selling for Rs. 399
>> www.net4domains.com
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>> that comes to US $ 8.88
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>> harish
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