Guys !
Decision has to be taken by opensrs , not by u or me for price.
opensrs is smart enough to take there own road.
dont we have something more to do...
Bye,
Dheeraj
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: Afternic/RCOM: Tucows stance on secondary market speculation
>
>
>"William X. Walsh" wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
>Wrong! I am not joking.
>
>> 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?
>>
>
>I did take into account ICANN accreditation fees. RSPs could sponsor the
>$5000 accreditation fees, so assuming they have 100 RSPs, each would pay
>yearly $50.
>
>RSPs could sponsor the development costs together, the open srs server
>development, and also the client development.
>
>Open SRS is a non-for-profit effort, thus their revenue should be
>minimum
>if any. Tucows is earning millions through their infamous "for-profit"
>Domain Direct. And, yes I know alot about their running costs. I advice
>you to see www.ICANN.org for more info.
>
>Thank you,
>Bruce
