We love Tucows, but $99 is a bit steep.
Much better than Verisign, but $20 more than retail EquifaxSecure?
Are you planning on offering wildcard certificates? (*.mydomain.com)
If yes, what's the pricing structure?
Thanks for your thoughts on this,
Ken
http://pacificdomains.net
Darryl Green wrote:
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> By the last week of January/first week of February we will have 128-bit ssl
> web certificates available for resale. The wholesale price of the
> certificates will be $99 (as per the ad in the ISP Buyer's Guide). We will
> be following the same basic distribution principles as exist for domain
> names. You will be able to private label the sale of the web certificates if
> you so desire and you will own the relationship with the customer. The
> certificates themselves will be supplied be Entrust Technologies and have
> 99% browser recognition. The Web Certificate purchase functionality will be
> built into the client code and the Reseller Web Interface.
>
> You have been telling us for a while (in no small measure from this
> discuss-list) that you would like us to offer a web-certificate product. We
> have continually been monitoring these discussions and take to heart the
> opinions you express. I actually hope that this e-mail is the beginning of
> an ongoing dialogue between myself, Product Manager for Security Services,
> and all of our resellers. Personally, I would like to use this forum to
> dialogue on strategies, upgrades and enhancements but for competitive
> reasons (i.e. you never know who's listening) I am likely to do more
> listening than talking. None the less -- please keep letting me know what
> you think about this offering and let me know what else you would like to
> see in terms of new products and/or upgrades to our existing offering and,
> to the extent prudent, I will keep letting you know we are up to
> (-promise-).
>
> Mea Culpa:
>
> I am rather embarrassed by the fact that our reseller community is learning
> of our plans through the media as opposed to from us directly. Our marketing
> efforts got out in front of our internal sales and development efforts and
> much like Jimmy Buffet after a few Tequila Slammers I have to own up to the
> fact that "it's my own damn fault". We are working non-stop to rectify the
> situation.
>
> Our sales staff have been trained and are ready to start answering your
> questions about our web certificates. The web site should be up tomorrow
> (Thursday Jan 11 -- late in the day) and will contain greater detail about
> the offering.
>
> So -- my apologies.
> Keep letting me know what you think and let me know if you have any other
> questions.
>
> Darryl Green
> Product Manager, Security Services
> Tucows Inc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:34 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Tucows Certs
> >
> >
> > http://certs.tucows.com/
> >
> > I got the impression from the full page ad in Boardwatch's ISP
> > Buyers guide
> > that
> > this service was available now.
> >
> > Any idea of when the rollout will be and what the RSP discount will be?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
