There is no NDA since we have not received anything in
writing nor by email that I am aware of nor have we agreed
to any non-disclosure.
I am at home this week on vacation this week.
What I reported was based on two telephone conversations
that a member of my staff had with them.
She sent me an email memorandum of her telephone
conversation with them, taken from her notes as she talked
with them. I am not aware of any confidentially agreement
about a telephone conversation unless both parties agree to
it prior to the conversation.
She told them that we were satisfied with our current
arrangements and did not think we would be interested. The
details I quoted was information provided at the time of the
calls to convince her we should be interested in using them
again.
When the caller continued to insist she told him she did not
have the authority to make such changes and suggested he
call again next week and talk with me. He told her he would
mail her information for me to review and call again next
week to discuss it with me. I just talked with the office
on the telephone and nothing has arrived yet, but it is
probably too early to have received anything by mail.
I doubt that we will go with them. Like you, I don't like
the idea of a three year exclusive agreement with anyone.
That is a long time at the speed this business changes.
The $8 is not an incentive as we already have that.
It would be nice to be able to renew current Network
Solutions customers, but I seriously doubt that they would
allow you to renew anybody that did not initially sign up
with you. That is a point I will raise when they call next
week.
But you must admit that it would be nice to hire a couple of
support personnel to call current Network Solution clients
and offer to renew their domains with Network Solutions for
$15.00 per year. I doubt that many would say no. Or
complain if you used email to contact them and offer them
the $15.00 renewals with Network Solutions instead of the
current $35 that they are paying. :)
However the main point of this is not what I decide to do,
but the fact that Network Solutions appears to be actively
pursuing the wholesale channel to regain lost ground. That
and the fact that if you see domain names offered through
Network Solutions for $10-15 per year it is going to make it
more difficult to convince clients to leave Network
Solutions, whom they know, for a registrar that has not been
in business very long. And none of the new registrars,
OpenSRS included, has the brand recognition of Network
Solutions.
Those of us in the hosting business know the headaches of
working with Network Solutions. But most of their clients
have not experienced these problems on a daily basis and
only see them as a stable company with which they can trust
their domain names.
And before all the outrage about not being able to trust
them etc, hits the list, please note that I did not say this
was true, but only that most of their clients felt this way.
We have experienced this in attempting to transfer our
clients away from Network Solutions. Most are not willing
to take the risk of a new registrar to save a few dollars a
year.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave
Warren
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:08 AM
To: dnsadmin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Domain Expired : in April]
> Basically they are asking you to believe them for the next
3 years. :) If
> you do go ahead and try and partner with NetSol, and it
fails miserably
> after a couple months, etc, be sure to come back to
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> to let us know the details.
Assuming you are allowed to talk about it, and NDA is
probably in there
too...
It would scare me to sign anything that says I have to deal
with a specific
company for 3 years. What if they decide that they don't
need reseller
support numbers anymore... Or make it a 900 number, or
something else anal.
I could almost see NetSol doing that.
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