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

[Bruce P.]

Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Bruce P. wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Why do you believe it is in any way your right to decide what is equitable
> for Tucows to make per domain?
> 

Because as an Open SRS RSP, I have the right to bargain with Tucows to
reduce their price.

I am sure you too want Open SRS to reduce their price, so that all RSPs
can get a little profit, say a dollar (USD 1). Currently, I am selling
domains at USD11 but its not competitive as my competitor,
Namebargain.com is selling at USD10. I could not afford to sell at my
cost price - USD10 as I would not get any profit if I did so.

Thank you,
Bruce