Mike (et. al.), Do you honestly believe that being on the referral list is going to send you boatloads of customers?! Have you looked at the referral list recently? It took me forever to even FIND the darn thing; it's buried quite deep on the OpenSRS webpage. And to be perfectly frank, there's no telling how many resellers are listed...it shows three at a time at random.
How many prospective domain registration customers do you suppose find themselves on the OpenSRS website to begin with? Wouldn't the vast majority of people on the OSRS site be ones that are looking to set up a reseller account to do larger quantities? Maybe I'm wrong and somebody can correct me and tell me they get lots of their business from the referral list...but I doubt it. There's so much rhetoric swirling around this issue, and everybody's got their panties in a wad, but frankly, I just can't conjure up any physical model of the universe where I'd want to go trolling for customers who happened to land on the OpenSRS website...it's just not what I would consider "fertile ground". (FWIW, I don't know if we would qualify to be listed, and I haven't taken the time to determine for sure or contact OSRS about it, because I believe it to be a waste of my time.) Regards, Eric Longman Atl-Connect Internet Services +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Atl-Connect Internet Services http://www.atlcon.net | | 3600 Dallas Hwy Ste 230-288 770 590-0888 | | Marietta, GA 30064-1685 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Russ Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 5:48 PM Subject: Re: Referral List What! We already spend enough on advertising, the least 2Cows can do is show our name on a referral list (Like they did before they got this bright idea of just the top so many sellers get listed) without pay-per click. If they do that, we will defiantly liquidate and get out of the domain business with 2Cows as I don't see how this is helping the small guys to succeed. -- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net <snip>
