I actually wanted to say the same thing without being ungrateful... I felt
that OpenSRS opened up domain name registrations at a cost that was
commensurate to the product, rather than based on what the market would
bear. The $99 certificate price tag sounds to me -- I could be wrong --
like a price tied to the competitor's pricing and unrelated to the
associated costs and fair margins.
Domain Name Registration services are presented through OpenSRS almost
as a public service; making it accessible to everyone at a fair price. Is
Tucows/OpenSRS positioning for a more traditional "what the market will
bear" attitude about certificates?
Rob Martin
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Ken wrote:
> 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?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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