I have not asked that the bar be raised. I do believe the bar was too low
from the start, but this was a marketing deploy by OpenSRS from the start
and has been very successful in attracting new RSP's. A large percentage of
these new clients were the clients of their RSPs, but I believe this too was
designed from the start.
What prompted my posting was that of the statement of Mr. Rader knocking the
other Registrars for competing with their resellers. I saw this a case of
the pot calling the kettle black, as OpenSRS has competed with their RSPs
from the start for the RSP's better clients. They have done so with their
advertising, their web site design and these discussions groups.
Now they are going to compete with their RSP's for the remaining clients by
offering the ancillary services that the RSPs currently offer.
No, they do not want all the RSP's clients. Just those that register 10 or
more domains a year. They are willing to leave the one'se and two's to
their RSPs. But that might change when they start offering the ancillary
services. Then it might be worth while to go after those that register one
domain a year.
Oops, I forgot, they already do that now. They call it DomainDirect.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ecs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:43 PM
Subject: Re[4]: New services: forwarding/DNS?
> Hello ecs,
>
> Thursday, October 12, 2000, 11:28:02 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Yes, stay out of the ancillary services that the RSPs are currently
offering
> > their clients as a value added service.
>
> I agree with this sentiment.
>
> I don't agree with those who, now that they are in, want the bar
> raised to make it harder for others.
>
> But the one thing that has differentiated RSPs from each other is the
> value added services such as this. Typically the RSPs who had these
> services knew what they heck they were doing, because they had at
> least the requisite knowledge to set something like this up.
>
> It wasn't that big a differentiation, because learning how to do those
> things is VERY easy to do. But it kept the lazy loos who want
> everything handed to them on a silver platter and really did not have
> the knowledge and expertise (and wasn't willing to do the very simple
> things necessary to acquire them) from encroaching on the quality
> services offered by those RSPs who took seriously their mandate to be
> a value-add.
>
> Now you are taking that away.
>
> I am very much opposed to this. This is going way too far.
>
> I urge OpenSRS to seriously reconsider this plan and rethink their
> strategy. With this change in policy, you seriously undermine the
> only thing your top RSPs had, their ability to innovate their own
> value add in these services.
>
> Even the prospect of OpenSRS offering this is distressing. Will you
> next encroach on those of us offering our own web hosting by offering
> a low cost wholesale solution for RSPs to market also?
>
> I didn't think this was what OpenSRS was going to be about.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
