As a buyer I wouldn't go through a reseller channel either, unless it was
cheaper.
But I would like an answer from TuCows on this question: How is Tucows
billing the auction customers for renewals at
ddirect.domainauctionservice.com, and how much are those customers paying
for auction related renewals? The posted renewal rate of $14.99 /year?
----Original Message Follows----
From: Maxine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: Timothy Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [domains-gen] auction proceedure
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:55:44 -0600
> 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."
>
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