Although I find the idea of a consortium interesting and innovative, I'd like to address a few points and expand on some things that Greg & Elliot talked about a few days ago.
Price: Rest assured that we intend to price dot EU very aggressively in order to give resellers a competitive edge. We are thinking volume will make up for margins per unit. Having said that our wholesale price will be 1 euro above the registrars cost which is currently 10 euro per year. Manageability & Scaled Risk: Adding levels of complexity regarding vendors is something that Tucows likes to worry about for you, giving you ample time and resources to focus on Service and Marketing. Having a hot commodity such as .eu registrations outside your registration flow path may distract resellers from focusing on getting their prospective customers eyeballs. Registry protocol coding and management is not a trivial matter. In doing so I feel that a participant would loose the supposed price benefits of the consortium (assuming that is the key driver). Maintenance releases and code changes are frequent and costly and should be factored when pondering a consortium or going at it alone. Consortiums are good in the short term but I question their long term viability when the going gets tough. Pre Registrations: IMO the best way to sour a registrant is to offer them a preregistration, sure you can make a few bucks on the promise that you will try and pump their names through but the disappointment that ensues when you send them the "thanks for playing, try again" message is not how you keep a customer. We're running registration facilities not lotteries. EUrid IMO has not fully vetted their sunrise or technical operations to our satisfaction. If we felt that they had the facility to run a fair equitable preregistration formula I would be more open to the idea but given their less than stellar sharing of information and lack luster delivery on timelines I think we'll stick with Land-rush registrations. I'm happy to dig deeper on any of the above topics. James On 27-Sep-05, at 7:52 AM, Fabio Erri wrote: > Easynet ASP - Enrico Cherubini ha scritto: > >> Hi, >> is opensrs planning to give .eu domain in preregistration as many >> other do ? >> The preregistration is allowed by eurid to accredited registrars... >> > > Hi to all, > my company, also being affiliated to OpenSRS, has decided to join to > Assodom, a born consortium in order to join various ISP at Eurid > accreditation. Now in fact we are accredited to it, and we are > predisposing the EPP procedures for the sunrise period. > If you want more details on this consortium let me know. > > Hi. > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen > James M Woods Product Manager - Domains Tucows Inc. www.tucows.com 416.538.5453 My Blog: www.warpjam.com _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
