Great letter. You are exactly right. It is a decision that has to be mad, and if it turns out bad then lets work together and find a cure....
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Csongor Fagyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "elliot noss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Ross Wm. Rader'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 4:37 AM Subject: Re: email question... > I feel the winds of change... and some trouble and flame war coming. > > I think whatever has been said, introducing a value-added service means > that in fact OpenSRS have a new marketing strategy. Actually in my > opinion they have the right to do whatever they want to do: this > decision might be a new one, but I would not be suprised to hear that > this had been decided even before OpenSRS registered their first domain. > It is kind of a trend Tucows/OpenSRS _have_to_ follow - just look at all > the other registars who are making quite a nice amount of money offering > similar services. We know that OpenSRS is not lowering their prices, and > if I were them, I would do the same: "do not eat the chicken that lays > golden eggs" as a saying goes in our country. So, as opposed to Abel, I > am not reconsidering things about Tucows: I am reconsidering our > strategy now, excepting the worst (but hoping for the best - this is > Alphaville, right? ;-)). > > There has been some discussions going on about this on this list many > months ago. Most resellers said, as far as I remember: "do not do this". > But now, alea iacta est. It is up to the resellers now how to handle the > situation, not OpenSRS to change their decision. > > I know it is unethical to say things like this on _this_ list, but as we > had always been kind of afraid of this step to be taken, what we have > been doing for quite some time now is to create a domain-registration > "middleware". It is a system, which uses the OpenSRS API on one end, and > a HTML templating system on the other, while storing all domain > registration (an other) data locally. Now the middleware is also capable > of handling an attribute called "registar". I think this tells you all. > While OpenSRS is one of the nicest companies we have ever had a > relationship with, changing their way of thinking also affects our way > of thinking. If they try to increase their profit by pushing their > resellers focus closer to marketing instead of technology, which I think > they are doing, then that is a business decision, and then our business > decision is to increase our profit by having a bigger margin on domain > registration, and, in general, relying on more than one registar at a time. > > We have kind of a nice community here on this list. As photographers > say: let us see, what develops! If this e-mail stuff turns out to be > harmful, together we will find out a way to overcome the difficulties - > where there's a will, there's a way. If it does not, then we are happy > and we can just go on, and either use or disregard this new service. > > > Just my two eurocents. > > - Cs. > >
