Hello William,
> No, I draw it at a level of reasonableness.
This is your level of reasonableness ... which I disagree with. I am not
certain how you expect your level of reasonableness to be some sort of
standard.
> And if you look back, you will see I did raise several concerns about
> it at the time as well, until I finally make my decision that it was a
> positive thing. (Though I do not offer them).
Apparently you were wrong then, and came to the right conclusion ... as you
will hopefully in this cases :D
> Reasonably, an RSP is not able to offer those services themselves,
> without an investment that is at an ENTIRELY different level than the
> ones on discussion here.
Depends on which type of RSP you are discussing, there is a huge range
contrary to what you seem to believe.
> Of course, but unless you build it, you have nothing to market,
> package, see, or support.
The domain registration service can be marketed. If there are additional
services those can be marketed too weather or not they are provided by
OpenSRS. Not sure what point tried to make.
> Yes, those are EXACTLY the services I speak of. Those services are
> simple for an RSP to provide themselves, and OpenSRS doing is would
> put them in competition with their resellers.
thats one way of looking at it. The other is that it will make OpenSRS
resellers as a whole more competitive in respect to other registrars.
> > ... if all OpenSRS resellers are given more out the box features to
compete
> > with, it follows that OpenSRS resellers should do better as a whole.
> I disagree. Smaller OpenSRS resellers might do more than they do now,
> but the larger ones would not, and in fact would likely leave.
Obviously leaving is illogical. Lets explore both scenarios for an RSP that
already provides the services when OpenSRS provides the extra services
RSP Leaves: They still have OpenSRS as a supposed "Competitor"
They incur costs by leaving
They go to another registrar that is not as good as OpenSRS (I
am assuming OpenSRS is currently the best :D)
They come up with new ways to differentiate themselves from
OpenSRS resellers
RSP continues to use their own services
RSP Stays: They come up with new ways to differentiate themselves from
OpenSRS resellers
RSP continues to user their own services
I hope you can see why leaving makes absolutely no business sense. Right now
the threat seems more like blackmail than anything else to me.
> Because OpenSRS doing it would be competing with their channel,
> something they are loathe to do, and have assured their channel
> partners they will not do.
this is where we differ. OpenSRS doing it will improve the competitive edge
of their channel overall. i.e. all RSPs now have more tools to compete with
later
David
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