I agree with William here. I can easily sway the Netsol people simply
on price. Add any amount of "personal" service, and they're hooked.
The competition is with the web-savy customers because many of them now
know that they can register for less than $35/year. Much of this
competition is with other OpenSRS registrars. I offer additional
services that I have worked hard to provide to differentiate myself.
Now, all of my efforts will be mirrored elsewhere for no additional
startup cost and my investments are wasted. I'm thinking "I should have
just waited another six months, then it would be handed to me on a
silver platter."
A homogenous group of OpenSRS resellers will become un-differentiable
to the consumer and they will just choose at random... unless I invest
another large sum to offer additional value-ads to differentiate myself
again.
The most painful part is that just a couple of months ago, on this very
mail list, OpenSRS was suggesting that we as RSPs use these exact
services to differentiate ourselves.
It seems like the early bird gets the debt load, while the latecomers
can focus on marketing.
And I'm not even addressing the issue that any customer who registers
more than 20 domains will probably just go direct to OpenSRS, which
means that they are no longer wholesale, but instead, a volume
retailer, in effect, the CostCo of the domain business.
-Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Iyoha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:21:25 -0700
Subject: Re[2]: New services: forwarding/DNS?
>Hello David,
>
>Friday, October 13, 2000, 4:30:13 AM, you wrote:
>> The example I gave before is this:
>
>> None of my clients will probably every hear of your company or any
>other
>> RSPs.
>
>How naive.
>
>> But they sure know about netsol and register.com. They spend
>millions
>> advertising. They are our major competition. When I tell a client to
>use my
>> services. I do not say "please do not go with Eric's company ... I
>say I am
>> a better deal than netsol, price, support, and I am backed by Tucows
>etc.
>
>The "real world" examples are more like, the customers know all the
>high priced registrars, then they find out there is an entire market
>of registration services at the low end, and they decide which market
>they want to deal with, the corporate advertised high end market, or
>the lower priced market. Once they decide that, it becomes an issue
>of which company in the market do they go with?
>
>If you don't think your customers are being competed for more
>competitively and more seriously right here in this market, you are
>being naive.
>
>--
>Best regards,
> William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
