Re: Afternic/RCOM: Tucows stance on secondary market speculation

[Bruce P.]

"Ross Wm. Rader" wrote:
> > I think this is a good time for Tucows to reduce its wholesale fee
> > of USD 10 per domain to USD 8 per domain.
> >
> > This will help Tucows remain competitive in the wholesale
> > registrar market.
> >
> > Is there any comment on this from Open SRS management, staffers?
> 
> Yeah - what does the acquisition that I was talking about have to do with
> our pricing levels? I don't follow the logic...
> 

Register.com is growing larger and larger.

They own NameBargain.com (retail), AfterNIC, NameDemo.com, and hordes of
others.

Tucows must make it easy and cheap for small companies to become
registrars, USD8 per domain is good enough and Tucows still gets a USD2
revenue while USD6 goes to the NSI Registry.

I sure do not want to become ICANN Accredited Registrar. Its a waste of
money and time.

Thank you,
Bruce