Omar,
I have little personally to do with pricing - but I would like to go on some
points. Yes, some registrars go out as cheaply as $8.95; which is,
admittedly, lower than our base wholesale price. But what else do they do
for you? Who owns the customer relationship? Do they have stability in
their systems and financial futures? Will they be around? Bulk Register
has always had a lower price, and they have been going through some
difficulties of late.
Yes, we're a little more pricy - but we're also a pure wholesaler. Your
customer is yours - and we offer consolodated management of several
different products, NOT just the current gTLDs. While we cannot convince
you to stay with us, all I can suggest is you contact your Sales
Representative to see what they can do for you around our already existing
promotions.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Omar Chavez
> Sent: April 17, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: Darrell Harder
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Domain for 9.95 ?
>
>
> Though it's been discussed to length previously, I think is time OpenSRS
> revises its pricing structure downward to accommodate market realities.
> If other registrars can manage charging the END USER $8.95 (with all the
> high costs associated in reaching those end users), there is no reason
> why OpenSRS can give us resellers a price closer to $8. Coming from
> Tucows -which has traditionally been known as an open source heaven, and
> provided the low cost of acquiring us resellers, there must be a way for
> them to better compete and dominate the market while helping us all.
>
> Last week we had a heated discussion in our company regarding the
> possible switch from OpenSRS to Godaddy.com, since they'd charge us much
> less than OSRS and their interface is as good as or superior... we
> stayed course mainly because we believe in long-term relationships, but
> I'm not sure next time around I'd be as willing to defend a good partner
> who is too blind and deaf to the market it serves.
>
>
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