OK, can you people honestly tell me that the *ONLY* service, above and
beyond domain registration, that you offer is DNS, URL forwarding, and maybe
a couple of POP boxes?
Do you not do web hosting? Maybe a bit of web design? Online store fronts?
ANYTHING AT ALL BEYOND DNS AND URL FORWARDING???
Lets face it. You sell a domain at $10 profit (maybe). You can sell
reliable, powerful web hosting for $25/month quite easily for a very small
site, and once you are past the initial setup costs you can handle a LOT of
clients, and each client you add will give you another $25/month of almost
pure profit. The first hundred clients will pay for the box and the
bandwidth, everything else is profit.
I know that the ISP I work for has close to $100,000 of income from the
smallest of our web servers. We run several different boxes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Woodson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: New services: forwarding/DNS?
> David Iyoha wrote:
> >
> > For the record I believe that if those services are added everyone will
gain
> > from them.
> > 1. OpenSRS becomes more appealing to new RSPs
>
> Correct. Your existing customers will become RSPS.
>
> > 2. Existing RSPs can now concentrate more on selling and gaining market
share
> > than in development
>
> How can you gain market share if you can no longer distinguish yourself
> from everyone else?
>
> > 3. RSPs become more competitive against the larger registration
companies
>
> RSPs will have to compete against each other on price alone. Everyone
> will drop prices. Everyone will whine to OpenSRS about themselves not
> being able to make enough profit. OpenSRS will eventually be forced to
> lower their prices. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
>
> This will not be a good thing.
>
> Thanks,
> Lance Woodson
>
