> 1- Is $10 the best price we are ever going to get with OpenSRS? I find it a > bit frustrating that my wholesale price is $10 and GOdaddy sells retail for > $8 or is it $8.95. Seems I should be able to get a cheaper price wholsale > then retail?? Isn't that how it's suppose to work? I love OPensrs but I do > have a bit of an issue with the price being higher than what I can buy for > retail.
You think Godaddy's price is $8.95 huh? Well, many people who try them soon find out that the TCO at GoDaddy quickly goes up from there. They use the low registration fee to lure unsuspecting victims in, then nickel and dime them to death until they get smart and decide to move. We have had many people move to us from GoDaddy. We provide a better overall price (our registration fee is higher than GoDaddy but we don't have hidden charges for just about everything), we provide better customer service (no charge and toll free unlike GoDaddy), and better security (thanks in part to registry lock which GoDaddy doesn't offer) and we don't spam our registrants with offers for web hosting, tax software, web stock photography, web design and whatever else GoDaddy is selling to try to keep their company afloat. > 2- Is there yet or will there ever be any other clients than Perl? OpenSRS publishes an API and a reference client that happens to be written in perl. Other individuals or groups have written client in other languages. Remember the client provided by OpenSRS is a *reference client* meaning it provides an example of how the API works. I know a lot of people just slap the reference client on their server and use it as is. Doing this was not the original intent of the OpenSRS system. OpenSRS was meant for ISP's to integrate domain registration with their existing systems--which means calling the API from your own code.
