Excellent. Here's a few questions:
What is the suggested retail price?
How will the Tucows certs compare to the Equifax offering technology-wise?
Will there be a volumne discount?
Equifax certs retail for less than $99 but they don't seem to have a
streamlined system
for ordering or a private-label program which would make the Tucows $99
wholesale price more
attractive to us even if it is higher.
Tony
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darryl Green
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Tucows Certs (and mea Culpa from Tucows Certificates
Product Management)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
By the last week of January/first week of February we will have 128-bit ssl
web certificates available for resale. The wholesale price of the
certificates will be $99 (as per the ad in the ISP Buyer's Guide). We will
be following the same basic distribution principles as exist for domain
names. You will be able to private label the sale of the web certificates if
you so desire and you will own the relationship with the customer. The
certificates themselves will be supplied be Entrust Technologies and have
99% browser recognition. The Web Certificate purchase functionality will be
built into the client code and the Reseller Web Interface.
You have been telling us for a while (in no small measure from this
discuss-list) that you would like us to offer a web-certificate product. We
have continually been monitoring these discussions and take to heart the
opinions you express. I actually hope that this e-mail is the beginning of
an ongoing dialogue between myself, Product Manager for Security Services,
and all of our resellers. Personally, I would like to use this forum to
dialogue on strategies, upgrades and enhancements but for competitive
reasons (i.e. you never know who's listening) I am likely to do more
listening than talking. None the less -- please keep letting me know what
you think about this offering and let me know what else you would like to
see in terms of new products and/or upgrades to our existing offering and,
to the extent prudent, I will keep letting you know we are up to
(-promise-).
Mea Culpa:
I am rather embarrassed by the fact that our reseller community is learning
of our plans through the media as opposed to from us directly. Our marketing
efforts got out in front of our internal sales and development efforts and
much like Jimmy Buffet after a few Tequila Slammers I have to own up to the
fact that "it's my own damn fault". We are working non-stop to rectify the
situation.
Our sales staff have been trained and are ready to start answering your
questions about our web certificates. The web site should be up tomorrow
(Thursday Jan 11 -- late in the day) and will contain greater detail about
the offering.
So -- my apologies.
Keep letting me know what you think and let me know if you have any other
questions.
Darryl Green
Product Manager, Security Services
Tucows Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tucows Certs
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> http://certs.tucows.com/
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> I got the impression from the full page ad in Boardwatch's ISP
> Buyers guide
> that
> this service was available now.
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> Any idea of when the rollout will be and what the RSP discount will be?
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