The point is that your clients can not get these services by becoming a RSP
with OpenSRS now.
Once OpenSRS makes these ancillary services part of the basic registration,
then your clients can sign up as RSPs with OpenSRS and eliminate you from
the picture, This assumes of course that you offer this type of service to
your clients and don't just offer a basic domain name registration service.
If you don't currently offer these services to your clients, you will of
course gain if you are able to offer the services through OpenSRS. Assuming
of course that your clients do not abandon you and sign up directly with
OpenSRS.
And this of course all assumes that OpenSRS is going to offer these new
services for the same base price of $10.00 per year. We have not heard
anything about the pricing structure for these new services, but I seem to
remember when OpenSRS was talking about providing a domain lock service,
they were also talking about additional fees.
As I stated previously, our concern is that somewhere down the line, OpenSRS
will also decide to get into the hosting business, as it is a natural to the
domain name registration business once they start offering these ancillary
services.
It is a given that they are going to offer them, so it is just a matter of
waiting to see what will happen next.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Iyoha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "opensrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: New services: forwarding/DNS?
> Hello William,
>
> > I said the >>>RSP<<< neded to do the value add, not have the value add
> > handed to them by OpenSRS, which them makes the value add no longer a
> > value add,
>
> matter of perspective. It is value added to my core services even though I
made no
> modifications to the domain registration piece.
>
> > (emphasis on the word WORKED) to distinguish themselves and make their
> > service more than just a generically installed set of scripts.
>
> Sooo your argument is for OpenSRS to hold back forward development of
their services
> that they offer to *ALL* RSPs, because a few RSPs have already have those
services in
> place. (I think we all know that is not how things work)
>
> The bottom line is if the new services are added ... All RSPs as a whole
become more
> competitive with larger companies like Netsol, Register.com who include
these with their
> registrations.
>
> > cheapens not only the value of the
> > value added service we and others have been providing, but of the
> > registration service itself.
>
> This is all perspective. It does not cheapen my service. It heightens it
>
> > How will you distinguish your service, David, when everyone who can
> > hire a script kid for $50 to install and pass the RITE test for them
> > is offering these services at $11 or $12 a pop?
>
> I think you might be missing a huge point. My main competitors are Netsol
and
> Register.com. None of my clients (or potential clients) have heard of
your company or
> any of the other RSPs but they sure have heard of Netsol and Register.com.
So it is to
> my benefit that the services with my domain registration are comparable to
Netsol or
> Register.com, and the new services that OpenSRS want to add do just that.
>
> later
>
> David
> --
> Systematic Software
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (513) 241 3331 ext. 9
> http://www.systware.com
>
>
>
