Re: Re[2]: Afternic/RCOM: Tucows stance on secondary market speculation

[Lee Hodgson - DomainGuideBook.com]

How many registrars, or any other businesses for that matter, announce price
changes in advance? Open Source does not imply Open Business.

Lee Hodgson
http://DomainGuideBook.com

----- Original Message -----
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To: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bruce P."
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Cc: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Afternic/RCOM: Tucows stance on secondary market
speculation


> NO, he is not the right person to tell but neither are you, if this
argument
> holds good. BUT, why is OpenSRS silent on this issue ?
>
> Ashish
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bruce P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Ross Wm. Rader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 22:19
> Subject: Re[2]: Afternic/RCOM: Tucows stance on secondary market
speculation
>
>
> > Hello Bruce,
> >
> > Monday, September 18, 2000, 8:25:36 AM, you wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > You are joking here, right?
> >
> > Did you take into account ICANN's fees?  Did you take into account the
> > cost of providing the service and development that you mention?  Who
> > are you to tell OpenSRS how much revenue is "good enough" for them
> > when you know nothing about how much it costs to keep it all running?
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >  William                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>