OpenSRS is non-profit org, is that true ?
Ashish
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 19:19
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
