> I've also found that my users have switched over to going to > tucowsauctions.com which lands them at ddirect.domainauctionservice.com > once they found out they were dealing with a reseller and not tucows > directly. >
Interesting. I had a similar experience. I posted to a forum and someone emailed me and said they would rather deal directly with the source as well and were going over to tucowsauctions.com. I called support and they said tucowsauctions.com was the generic page if no one had the auction configured. Guess I should have done a little more digging. In the case of the auctions, different then my feeling about domain registrations and other ancillary products, I don't want Tucows to be transparent! Maxine Appleby NameBids.com Timothy Tate wrote: > > Laughable. The buyers on the auction system are mostly "domainers" who > know better and will be transferring the domains out to places like > enom, moniker or even godaddy so they can get renewal rates at $6.95 or > less. What exactly can you upsell to that crowd? DNS forwarding for a $1 > month per domain when every other registrar and even parking services > are giving it away for free? > > Don't get me wrong - the price drop makes sense considering the quality > of the vast majority of names dropping through the auction system. > Requiring the resellers to become indebted with the renewal fee does not. > > I've also found that my users have switched over to going to > tucowsauctions.com which lands them at ddirect.domainauctionservice.com > once they found out they were dealing with a reseller and not tucows > directly. > > How did I figure this out? I suspended a bunch of abandoned, inactive > accounts that had not placed bids on the system for several months. Once > those accounts were suspended the users emailed me in a panic wanting to > know why their auction account had been suspended and insisted that they > had placed several bids and won several names over the past few months. > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Nick Wilsdon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Timothy Tate'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [domains-gen] auction proceedure > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:14:53 +0300 > > As support has written to me - "While I understand on an immediate basis it > looks like a loss, you as the reseller are gaining something much more > valuable then a couple of dollars commission. You're gaining a customer. > That opens up the possibility for upselling, renewal years and other > revenue > streams based on the purchased domain." > > _________________________________________________________________ > Not only does Windows Live™ OneCare™ provide all-in-one PC care to keep > your computer protected and well-maintained, but it also makes creating > backup files a breeze. Try it today! > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionid=b2456790-90e6-4d28-9219-5d7207d94d45&mkt=en-ca > > > _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
