In a message dated 9/11/2002 12:23:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For a price difference that works out to about fifty cents per month.
Well, if your prospective customers are penny pinching that much, more
power to 'em. Our usual response to queries like this is that if they
choose to use a different company as their registrar, we won't be able
to assist them in anything relating to that service. We tell 'em that
if they're comfortable managing their whois data and DNS servers
themselves, or if they're confident that the customer service department
of <insert registrar here> can help them through the rough spots, they
are free to save a couple of bucks.
Fine and dandy. *We* certainly don't consider the profits from domain
registration to be a significant portion of our revenue. For five to
ten bucks A YEAR, we'd have to focus solely on registration to make it
even close to profitable. Our money is from hosting, and we provide the
registration services in an attempt to simplify things for our customers
and we make sure our customers know this. If they feel that the extra
hassle they'll incur is worth the $5 a year savings, it certainly won't
be affecting our bottom line.
If you really want to be in the registrar business, look at becoming
accredited yourself. Otherwise, take a serious look at where your
business currently makes the most profit, and focus on improving service
and lowering costs in that area. We consider domain registration
through OpenSRS to be one of those things used to improve our hosting
service, rather than a profit centre unto itself.
