David Iyoha wrote:
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> My point was not specifically Enom (I used them as an example) so attacking
> enom is not really a good counter. Plus your understanding of how Enom works
> is incorrect. They offer a reseller program providing their resellers with
> client side code etc. Also making full scale decisions/judgments based on
That's fine, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. That was the assumption
made when I saw that I, as a user, can register one domain with them --
that they like dealing with the end user (unlike Tucows).
> receiving one piece of spam is very illogical. They may have bought the
> email addresses from a "legitimate" source that told them they were getting
> email addresses of people who were interested in domain name offers etc. But
> assuming they did send spam, it does follow that they have a bad product, or
> they are a bad company, or they are bad people, or they do bad business.
Yes, actually it does. And your first excuse for them is incorrect. The
address they sent to was "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- the address in that
form is used *only* on old NSI whois records.
If a company spams, they *will not* get my business. I don't care how
great the product they are selling is, they can find a way of marketing it
that *does not cost *me* money*.
> I understand setting up each side service is not really brain surgery. But
> setting it up so it is really reliable i.e. daily backups, backup servers,
> scaleable servers, redundant servers, ensuring each OpenSRS upgrade works
> with the extra code, having over 200 resellers provide feedback and test the
> code, is what OpenSRS would provide.
It sounds to me as though you're looking for OpenSRS to provide, at the
expense of some of the skilled resellers and the benefit to the lazy ones,
a service which requires a fair amount of resources.
I, for one (as a skilled reseller), am opposed to this.
> Another point is that other registrars already provide the services for
> their resellers so of the bat other resellers have an advantage over OpenSRS
> resellers. They would now have to do extra work to at least match other
> resellers instead of selling domains. Once again OpenSRS resellers as a
> whole are at a disadvantage with the other resellers.
Well, go join the other registrars, then... but I get the sense that you
find something much better (perhaps it is the lack of spam) about OpenSRS
which keeps you here.
> And finally some Registrars now *retail* domains at $10-$15 range. So if
So can you, as an OpenSRS reseller! It'll be a loss leader but perhaps
you can upsell them to hosting packages, mail forwarding, etc.
> OpenSRS provides the extra services that would be helpful to new (and some
> existing) RSP's to give them a competitive advantage (or at least make them
> even with some other resellers)
If they do that, what? You didn't finish this thought.
> It seems the only reason you have any objections is because you must already
> have the services I am discussing in place. So from your limited perspective
> it does you no good ... but in the overall long-term health of OpenSRS it
> makes sense that they provide all their RSPs with as many weapons to compete
> with in the marketplace. They will help OpenSRS as a whole do better since
> their RSP's will do better. All RSPs gain if OpenSRS is competitive and
> doing well i.e. OpenSRS can continue their superb tech support, upgrade
> code, upgrade hardware etc .
Well, another thing I have to keep in mind is that I am competing against
you. My product appears to be superior to yours, as I include mail
forwarding and domain hosting with my typical registration fee. Granted,
we are more expensive, but we do offer services which it seems you do not
(otherwise, you also would not be asking for them here).
Differentiating my service from some Joe Schmoe who decides to put up the
$500 (Quickstart requires the larger funding) to register somewhere
between 14 and 50 domains just because he feels like it (with OpenSRS
doing all the work) is something that I feel must be done. We have
invested a large amount of development time into making our domain
registration business viable, and our features worthwhile.
-kb
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