Ok then, I guess I'm confused. Why is it that you're here on this list then?
That is to say, if Enom is so hot, and apparently far better than Tucows in
your mind.
Al I know is that I'd personally never associate myself in any way, with
anyone who spams
my customers the way that Enom and some their resellers do. But that's just
my $.02.
Like I said before. Price isn't everything. But then nether is service. How
about we talk
ethics?
-Mark
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Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors
> I dont know about you, but I have had excellent service at enom. As a
> matter of fact, I got TWO responses from them today alone (from emails
> I sent only a few hours ago).
>
> I loved my old tucows registrar (fantastic customer service), but when I
> can register a domain (and have full control of many different services,
> including instant DNS changes) for FIVE dollars -less- PER DOMAIN...
> PRICE DOES MATTER. (Especially when you have hundreds of
> domains)
>
> -Kenn ('now where did I put my 2 cents...')
> www.SiteLance.com
>
>
>
>
> On 6 Sep 2002 at 20:22, Csongor Fagyal wrote:
>
> >
> > Mark Petersen wrote:
> > Boy, how many times has this been hashed out in the past?
> > Check the archives bud.
> > And, at the risk of being highly redundant, *price* is not everything.
> > How's the service at Enom? I wonder if they steal customers out from
under their resellers like
> > Register.Com does?
> > Humm.... ;o)
> > -Mark
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent:Friday, September 06, 2002 10:08 AM
> > Subject:2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors
> >
> > Well thanks for that but it brings up more questions. We used to get an
"Affiliate Rebate" and a
> > "Programs Rebate." but haven't gotten either for almost two years. Are
any rebates still
> > available?
> >
> > Is there any way to get the wholesale prices lower or does
Tucows/OpenSRS have any plans to
> > cut prices?
> >
> > I've been contacted by enom to resell for them and they offer lower
pricing than OpenSRS. I
> > haven't looked seriously into it yet, but it seems like our costs are
going up while business has
> > been flat for the past year. We need to cut costs wherever we can. I
always liked the
> > open/community atmosphere of Tucows but it seems to me that it is
becoming more corporate
> > and less distinguished from everyone else out there. So why should we
stick around if it is just
> > the same corporate stuff with less benefits and higher costs? What
distinguishes Tucows these
> > days from Microsoft or Verisign?
> >
> > I'm not trying to cause problems, I just see our costs increasing (such
as bandwidth for the
> > mirrors) and the benefits declining here while we are struggling to stay
in business - like a lot of
> > other little guys. We've also had to cut domain registration costs
dramatically to be competitive.
> > Some of these guys offer domains for less than we pay wholesale to
OpenSRS. At these rates it
> > ends up costing us more in wholesale cost, time and effort to handle
domains than it would to let
> > someone else do it.
> > Wow, my favourite topic :-) Our biggest competitor is selling joker.com
domains for $12/year....
> > yet our revenues are increasing, so price is not everything, that is
correct.
> >
> > OTOH what about names4ever.com? They have a similar API like Open SRS
has. $7.95/year. ;-)
> >
> > And this also tells me that modular software design is cool. Somewhere
in your code (if you have
> > your own API) there is a line like
> > my $result = ®ister_domain (\%domain_data);
> >
> > Now make that
> > my $result = ®ister_domain ($my_current_registar, \%domain_data);
> >
> > And that's it - provided you can mass-transfer all of your domains. ;-)
> >
> > - Cs.
> >
> >
>
>
