Hello Dave,
Thursday, April 19, 2001, 7:24:12 PM, Dave Warren wrote:
>> I appraciate the OpenSRS site and services, but the
>> wholesale price would be 5.-USD per domain, and we may
>> be asked to sell less than or up to 10.-USD, by that
>> way we can compete and sell more domains, more
>> services, and at the end, OpenSRS will dominate and
>> get more cash flow.
>>
>> Please dont tell me you cant compete, or survive by
>> 5.-USD per domain, because these domains are virtual
>> and all the process is automated. If you cut the price
>> by half, and quadruple sales than you will GAIN 2
>> times more. WE will gain 2 times more by selling 4
>> times more :-))
> Tucows pays $6 domain to Verisign. Assuming they have NO overhead cost,
> that would be the minimum they could possibly sell domains at.
> Unfortunately, they have servers, offices, and employees to pay.
> $5 will *NEVER* happen unless the root registry drops their prices.
Which of course would lead the other places to lower their prices even
more, and thus start the whole thing over again.
The solution, Baris, is to not even try to compete on price, and to
not try and make a profitable business out of nothing more than simple
domain registrations.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
