> If you carefully do research - Register.com, Inc. is selling domains at
> $9.99 through its NameBargain.com site.
>
> For more info, plz see < http://www.namebargain.com >
>
> To Ross Wm. Rader: the above url is evidence. Please go and talk to your
> bosses and other authoritive management in Tucows and *persuade* them
> through whatever means to reduce the price from USD10 to USD8. Don't
> worry, Tucows still can get a USD2 revenue, if you sell domains at USD8
> wholesale registration.
It makes me cringe everytime I see someone decide that, just because OpenSRS
has a relatively open communication policy with their users, they have the
right to tell OpenSRS how to run their business.
Take a closer look at Namebargain. You get practically *nothing* with their
registration package:
- an un-editable "coming soon" page
- no interface to update DNS records
- no interface to update whois information
- no API for resellers
OpenSRS has a business plan. That plan obviously involves providing
excellent customer service, and a wide range of services beyond simple
domain
registration to it's RSPs, including a very extensible API. Worth $4/year
in my opinion. Worth more than that, apparently, for many of the RSPs end
users too.
> Most of us need an Open source customizable API and client to put on our
> web sites to allow automated registrations. Also, open srs client is
> licensed under GNU GPL so our modifications are copyrighted by us, not
> Tucows or NSI. That is why we use Open SRS.
Actually, most of you don't *need* and open source API. Most of you don't
have the money/time/technical know-how/etc. to become an ICANN accredited
registrar yourselves, so you are using the API that OpenSRS has developed,
and is maintaining.
OpenSRS provides this to you. And it comes with a cost.
If you don't want to pay for it, then just go elsewhere, become accredited,
or find some other solution. No one here is telling *you* how to run your
business. I'm sure OpenSRS is getting tired of hearing people tell them how
to run theirs. I sure am.
- Colin
