Same here
Shadowbreed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Viebrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bruce P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 7:10 PM
Subject: RE: Afternic/RCOM: Tucows stance on secondary market speculation
> > Register.com is growing larger and larger.
>
> ... and yet their stock goes lower and lower. :)
>
> > They own NameBargain.com (retail), AfterNIC, NameDemo.com, and hordes of
> > others.
> >
> > Tucows must make it easy and cheap for small companies to become
> > registrars, USD8 per domain is good enough and Tucows still gets a USD2
> > revenue while USD6 goes to the NSI Registry.
>
>
> Tucows has absolutely no obligation at all to you to make your company
> profitable. That's your job.
>
> "USD8 per domain is good enough" ... where do you get off saying stuff
like
> this?! What if I said that you were charging too little? Because, if you
> can't make your business model work by paying $10 to OpenSRS, then you
> obviously are. Or you're spending too much on something else (support,
> staff, bandwidth, whatever).
>
> Again, it is soley your job to make your company profitable. If you
picked
> a supplier that charges too much (in your opinion) for their product, pick
> a different supplier.
>
>
> > I sure do not want to become ICANN Accredited Registrar. Its a waste of
> > money and time.
>
> That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? Personally, I suggest you get
out
> of the business now then. Save yourself some headaches.
>
> - Colin
>
