OpenSRS has a bit of a sticky wicket to deal with here, eh?
I don't see a whole lot of discussion about the marketing wars
that I presume would take place with a relatively automated process
for transferring between RSP's?
Were this to develop far enough, all would be forced to homogenize pricing,
service offerings, etc or risk having ambulance chasing RSP's spamming their
customers, no?
Airline fair wars? Lose money and hope to find profitability by losing
money in very high volumes? The Path-To-Profitability players will move
elsewhere, and quickly.
OpenSRS is successful because they empower many small players to do their
streetfighter marketing for them. Why have 1 search engine position when you
can have 60?
Allowing transfers in an even remotely
automated fashion will, no doubt, lead to:
-RSP's re-allocating marketing resources as well as their own time and
attention toward fending off the marketing efforts of other RSP's AND
perhaps doing a little cherry-picking of their own
-OpenSRS themselves would have to expend a good deal more energy on
conflict resolution, refereeing, and policy-making, etc.
If I were OpenSRS I would want to leverage potential synergies of building
community within the RSP group, not expending energy watching them tear
each other apart.
Honestly, I look at the amount of time policing petty
bicker matches within these mailing lists and find the amount of energy
allocated to responding ....curious.
The sleeping giant is NSI. Ross' numbers show this very clearly. I sense
that NSI and Register are sensing the problem and believe me, they have
stunning resources.
Why again are we going to allow an easier method for switching RSP's?
What's the rush?
Is this the only option?
Can RSP's police themselves?
....hmmmm. Just stuff bouncing around in my tiny little mind.
Cheers!~
J. Scott Schiller
VP
GIA Web Services, Inc.
Bellevue, WA
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Warren
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 8:31 PM
To: Southpaw/NINEpm; OpenSRS Discussion List
Subject: Re: Transfers in general
>
> i dont agree with the allowing a transfer without the approval of the
losing
> RSP, i firmly believe the losing rsp should have control over this and
> opensrs and tucows shouldnt have last word. There could be other issues
> involved with the transfer and an approval from the losing rsp helps
protect
> them.
And if the RSP just doesn't get around to answering? Same as a registrar,
there must be some mechanism. Give 'em 5 days, if they haven't rejected it,
then assume it's fine.
Otherwise, if I (As a RSP user) was on bad terms with my RSP and they didn't
want to transfer it, I'd just find another registrar altogether and forget
OpenSRS and my bad RSP.
