Dear Mr. Patrick Greenwell,
> > Without taking the name I would like to inform you all that some of the
> > registrars (from India) are offering prices as low as USD 7.50 even to
> > end-user with some of the FREE FACILITIES e.g. mails, dns, url/ ip
> > forwarding etc.
>
> So? At that price point they're either losing money, or offering crappy
> service. Neither is a sustainable business model barring the possibility
> that they have those sufficiently deep pockets mentioned earlier
> necessary to outlast their competitors, or they are simply building a
> sufficient enough customer base to be acquired. If they don't have the
> funds, they'll cave in under their own weight as demand increases for
> their money-losing services beyond their ability to execute. If they do,
> then why on earth would you suggest playing to their strengths and smaller
> companies weaknesses by attempting to go head to head with them based on
> price?
I really can not Why are you obssessed with your own concepts and ideas? I really
disagree with all of your long mail but particularlly above one is something very
silly.
Who made you believe that the companies who offer domain name registration below $10
(or at $ 7.5) are making losses or offering crappy services? Have you any day
experienced their services? Have you tried to understand their business model?
Believe me (only if you want & can), there could be 100's of different approach and
models can exist and with all price level. Infact selling domain at $7.5 is still
profit making exericise as you've margin of $1.5. However if you can manage some
business & publicity (which is a driver of major internet traffic), you can also go
below that magic figure of US$ 600
Only request to you is, don't try to enforce your views to anybody. There are lots of
ideas and thoughts can co-exists in this world and also on opensrs discussion list.
Hope you'll appreciate this.
Regards,
Amit Mehta
www.planetace.com
www.acesoftex.com
Linking web & people
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