Hello,
> Bill, I haven't seen an OpenSRS reseller site yet which uses a truly
> independent submission system. All I've seen so far are somewhat "changed"
> OpenSRS clients or simply the original unchanged one. This shows that
We use our own perl apache module. We only use OpenSRS code to provide the
management interface to customers. It was done in a couple of days by our
programmer and everything related to registration and renewal is done via
it. Basically it's a client sending querys that get a yes or no from
opensrs server and does what it has to do internally (Billing, sending
confirm etc..) . Using your in-house code, IMO gives you great flexibility
and with OpenSRS specs, must not be very hard to do for someone familiar
with perl. E-mail templates gives no security for payment informations and
tend to confuse customers much more than a simple web page in one, two or
even three steps to make it easy. We save a lot of time compared to one year
ago when we were dealing everyday by phone with customers to explain how
they should reply, that they must turn off html output ............ Tech
support is also money taken directly from domains profit. We also sell
webhosting and not having to submit templates , make our system in one step.
Domain registration and hosting order in one same form. It's just the
product that change. Today's customers like it easy. It gives them
confidence and loyalty to your business. (The guy next door can't call your
customers to tell them that with them, they just have to click the
lil'button to get it done)
Best regards,
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Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: Wish List
> > Let me clarify that I meant "reseller" when I said "registrar" above. I
> > see people complaining that its too hard to develop scripts that process
> > via the API and that they would prefer e-mail processing. If they can't
> > code to the API, I'm not sure how they would expect to be able to code a
> > much more complex parser to receive the replies from opensrs.
> >
>
> Bill, I haven't seen an OpenSRS reseller site yet which uses a truly
> independent submission system. All I've seen so far are somewhat "changed"
> OpenSRS clients or simply the original unchanged one. This shows that
> programming for the API isn't that easy. I agree that parsing the replies
> may be a bit more difficult then chunking a submission down to a given
> email template. I assume, however, that an email based system would
> encourage many small resellers to at least start with a complete
> submission system of their own. It should also be noted that there seem to
> be different reseller "models". Most on this list seem to run domain
> registration as a wholesale business where they just want to have as low
> contact to the domain/buyer as they can. It's obvious that they like
> getting provided with a client they don't need to think about and an
> automated payment collection system. We have a different concept and I
> think many resellers in Europe are like us. We sell Webhosting, not
> domains. When domains are registered with us it's almost always attached
> to buying a server. We take the domain registration in our own format,
> verify it with the client, process it and then send a success/failure to
> the (new) client, process the server order etc. The client does not have
> any contact to the registrar/registry. They come to us and they get it
> from us. Money is collected later (not via credit card). We do not sell a
> domain at $15, that doesn't make any sense to us, I could just hand them
> out for free.
>
>
> Kai
>
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