No one is giving you crap. Just plain facts. I am sure your mother raised you better than to speak that way. You are taking a terrible amount of offense to our view/ethics/opinions to this company. If you happen to be a share holder with them that might explain the temper ;o)
Again, no one is saying you "Accused" us of anything.... Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Biz-Ops - OpenSRS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:58 PM Subject: Re: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors > > I've been on this list since Tucows only had one cow. > > I stated fact. I accused no one of anything or made any personal > aspirations about anyone. I don't appreciate this crap. This list has > gone to shit. > > > > On 6 Sep 2002 at 15:28, Biz-Ops - OpenSRS wrote: > > > I think he is a consumer and not a reseller and he is probably comparing his > > prices he gets from them to Verisign's prices ;o) > > > > Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.4CheapDomains.Net > > Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ramy Nabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:46 PM > > Subject: Re: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors > > > > > > > FIVE dollars -less- PER DOMAIN... ???!!! > > > You get the domain for US$5 / year? > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
