Hello Kris,
My point was not specifically Enom (I used them as an example) so attacking
enom is not really a good counter. Plus your understanding of how Enom works
is incorrect. They offer a reseller program providing their resellers with
client side code etc. Also making full scale decisions/judgments based on
receiving one piece of spam is very illogical. They may have bought the
email addresses from a "legitimate" source that told them they were getting
email addresses of people who were interested in domain name offers etc. But
assuming they did send spam, it does follow that they have a bad product, or
they are a bad company, or they are bad people, or they do bad business.
Anyway back on topic ...
I understand setting up each side service is not really brain surgery. But
setting it up so it is really reliable i.e. daily backups, backup servers,
scaleable servers, redundant servers, ensuring each OpenSRS upgrade works
with the extra code, having over 200 resellers provide feedback and test the
code, is what OpenSRS would provide.
Another point is that other registrars already provide the services for
their resellers so of the bat other resellers have an advantage over OpenSRS
resellers. They would now have to do extra work to at least match other
resellers instead of selling domains. Once again OpenSRS resellers as a
whole are at a disadvantage with the other resellers.
And finally some Registrars now *retail* domains at $10-$15 range. So if
OpenSRS provides the extra services that would be helpful to new (and some
existing) RSP's to give them a competitive advantage (or at least make them
even with some other resellers)
It seems the only reason you have any objections is because you must already
have the services I am discussing in place. So from your limited perspective
it does you no good ... but in the overall long-term health of OpenSRS it
makes sense that they provide all their RSPs with as many weapons to compete
with in the marketplace. They will help OpenSRS as a whole do better since
their RSP's will do better. All RSPs gain if OpenSRS is competitive and
doing well i.e. OpenSRS can continue their superb tech support, upgrade
code, upgrade hardware etc .
later
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:58 AM
> To: David Iyoha
> Subject: Re: Wish List
>
>
> David Iyoha wrote:
> >
> > I see your perspective but other registrars that have resellers
> (i.e. enom)
> > already offer those services. And those registrars also have low pricing
> > like OpenSrs ie ~$10/domain year. Which means as a whole
> opensrs resellers
> > start out at a disadvantage. Which is overall bad for the OpenSrs
> > organization which obviously filters down to be bad for their resellers.
>
> Well, I'm not sure of exactly who is offering this, however I would not
> put my business in enom's hands. They have, as I understand it, employed
> some very shady business practices (i.e. free now, pay big later) and have
> spammed me personally. Just the one spam was enough for me to say "I
> don't car how cheap your domains are, I won't buy them from you."
>
> I'm not sure that enom resellers qualify as 'resellers' per se. They seem
> to qualify more as affiliates, where business is just referred to enom via
> mass marketing campaigns.
>
> > To me the idea of limiting OpenSRS to not offering the extra services is
> > like closing ones eyes in the face of danger and thinking
> because you do not
> > see it, it is not there.
>
> Really, setting up your machine so you can offer this service free of
> charge would not be difficult. This is something that the OpenSRS system
> is built around -- "we do what you can't, but we'll let you take care of
> the easy stuff."
>
> -kb
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> Kris Benson
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