Hello Ross,
Thursday, October 12, 2000, 2:26:46 PM, you wrote:
> Prior to our launch earlier this year, ISPs and Webhosters had a choice to
> deal with Register.com or NSI @ $35 per year and risk losing their
> customers to them en masse.
And with your adding the same services that required true value added
resellers to have to invest a little time and work to offer as a
bundled service, you remove one of the primary reasons for people to
deal with the RSPs who have the means to offer these services. It
provides a sort of bar that separates those who don't know diddly
about this business, but just want to cash in and wouldn't know how to
do something simple like making the client scripts return a different
"thankyou" template based on the payment type, number of domains, or
number of domain years ordered.
And this bar isn't that high. About 2 weeks of playing around and
about $60 worth of reference books to keep handy, and they would have
the knowledge in how to do these things on their own.
You are removing that bar, and thus cheapening the value add for the
RSPs who have invested the time and money to learn and offer these
services.
This stinks, Ross. It really does.
OpenSRS should stick to domain name registration, and rather than
working on cheapening the value of the value adds offered by their
RSPs, should instead focus on the numerous changes and modifications
to the registration service and interfaces that need to be made.
You will do more to help the value to the RSPs by doing that then by
cheapening our already cheap Value Adds.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
