Terry Knab wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bruce P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 9:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Afternic/RCOM: Tucows stance on secondary market speculation
>
> > But, you must have surely followed the hotly debated thread regarding the
> > pricing. you couldn't find any of the reasons mentioned in that to lower
> the
> > wholesale prices. I mean, we wholesalers are buying at prices higher than
> > the retail prices !!!!
>
> Define 'retail'. Register.com and NSI sure as hell don't sell domains for
> $10.
>
Terry, by your statement, I can see that you know nothing about doing
business!
If you carefully do research - Register.com, Inc. is selling domains at
$9.99 through its NameBargain.com site.
For more info, plz see < http://www.namebargain.com >
To Ross Wm. Rader: the above url is evidence. Please go and talk to your
bosses and other authoritive management in Tucows and *persuade* them
through whatever means to reduce the price from USD10 to USD8. Don't
worry, Tucows still can get a USD2 revenue, if you sell domains at USD8
wholesale registration.
I am sure Tucows has got 2 Million domains by now, so your revenue will
still be profitable - USD4 Million.
> If you're so damn unhappy with the prices, go and buy one 'retail' and then
> resell it.
>
Most of us need an Open source customizable API and client to put on our
web sites to allow automated registrations. Also, open srs client is
licensed under GNU GPL so our modifications are copyrighted by us, not
Tucows or NSI. That is why we use Open SRS.
Thank you,
Bruce.
