Hello Patrick,
Monday, September 11, 2000, 3:58:33 PM, you wrote:
> (7) Unless something is done resellers are going to be hit hard esp. in
> India
I think the effects of some registrars offer $6.75 domains on RSP's is
grossly exaggerated. The same people whining about price are the ones
who think OpenSRS should be providing them every other service under
the sun to resell as well, like URL Forwarding, email forward, etc.
These people want a business handed to them on a silver platter. The
add-on services, for example, are all easily implemented by simply
learning a language you should know anyway if you are an RSP running
OpenSRS scripts (PERL). These RSPs don't understand that it is up to
THEM to create the value add themselves. And with the value adds,
which can include other services besides domains, price suddenly is no
longer the important issue.
I can recommend 3 perl books which will teach you everything you need
to know. One is on using the DBI modules to create dynamic database
driven applications, which is what you are going to need to know to
run a URL Forwarding service or other related service.
People who see a direct resell of what OpenSRS provides, and nothing
more on their end, as a profit making business option, are, in most
probability, setting themselves up for failure. They also tend to be
the ones less inclined to do the work themselves for what they want to
do in their business.
Sorry for the generalities in the above paragraphs, I will note for
the record that there are (rare) exceptions, but these statements do
apply to the bulk of what I see posted here.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
