With the services being proposed as coming from OpenSRS, that directly
compete with the existing value added services offered by OpenSRS
RSPs, OpenSRS will be essentially making all the RSPs the same.
Chuck mentioned all the market speak about support, etc, and those are
good, valid points, but they are not as important has he was
presenting. The key has always been the value added services and
other benefits offering by the RSPs who distinguished themselves from
the Moo Herd of RSPs <g> by working to create and manage these types
of value added services.
Now, all RSPs will have these services, without any real understanding
of how they work, without any knowledge or any real work on their
behalf, and that will, once again, make all RSPs equal, and remove one
of the main factors that has distinguished RSPs from each other.
So then all the RSPs will be essentially identical, with only minor
insignificant differences, the only thing to compete on
becomes...price.
And that will lead directly to everyone coming down to the $11 and $12
neighborhoods, thus cheapening even the value of the registration
service itself.
Price becomes the only issue separating RSPs from each other, and
that, would truly be a sad day.
OpenSRS would still win, of course, in the short term maybe.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
