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From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Open SRS is not competitive!
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> Open SRS charge U.S. $10 per domain for a 1-Year registration, but NSI
> only charges U.S. $6 per domain for a 1-Year registration. See the NSI
> Registrar License & Agreement.
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> I urge Open SRS to reduce its registration fee to compete with NSI.
Well, I fhink $10 is more than fair considering that NSI doesn't sell to the
end user at that price. And accounting for the poor level of service I've
gotten dealing with NSI, $10 to do it myself is a bargain.
OpenSRS makes my life a million times easier because I do my own billing,
registrations and such. (I offer registrations as a SERVICE, which it should
be!) I decided to resell OpenSRS because I:
1. Believe in OpenSRS and its mission (its the type of thing the 'net was
based on, you know)
2. Have about 15 domains registered to me personally, and at $10 a year, I
save a boatload of cash every year!
3. Feel that being able to offer a product that I can handle the customer
service issues for is FAR easier than letting my clients deal with NSI.
(You know the old saying, people like to buy locally!)
4. Find that customers LIKE the fact that I can take care of it all and not
involve anyone else.
5. Really got fed up with NSI's poor billing and customer service
practices. If I ran my business as bad as they do, I'd be out of business
Its not about the price point. There are some of us who would resell
OpenSRS even if the cost was higher because we want to provide a choice!
I have a stack of domain registrations to do for people who don't have
credit cards and want domains registered because I'll accept a CASH payment
for them. Tell me that charging them 1/3 of what NSI charges end users is
still too much.
Domains have dropped so far in price (I remember when it was $100 to get a
.com/.net/.org) because of COMPETITION!
Get real. If you want to charge $6, charge it and make up the $4 on other
things (hey, charge $4 a year for DNS or something!) but do NOT tell us
that OpenSRS needs to cut its price to stay competitive. I'm damn lucky I
got on with a service who charges a FAIR price for domains!
