Well, right in Sergei's email he covered a few... > Total - we > allowed to delete domains, decline transfer requests and verify > incoming transfers, not mention ability change every bit in > contacts and nameservers
Personally, I'd love to have that level of control. However, if ICANN ever got off their arse and enforced contracts, it could quickly make OpenSRS liable for "badness" that was actually an RSP's fault. (Intentionally not snipping, to show Sergei's email) I-Dotter.com OpenSRS-Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sergei, > > This email should've gone to the list. > > === > What do you mean "Real reason was control over domain - only one thing > that OpenSRS can't or don't want provide to resellers?" > > What control over domains do they offer that we don't get here? > === > > > > Hello Ryan, > > > > I doubt many of you care that someone is coming back to OpenSRS, > > > but I thought I would send this to the list anyways to help stop > > > anyone thinking about leaving OpenSRS. > > > Here's different story. > > > First of all, I want say that it was pleasure to work with > > OpenSRS two years ago. Young and enthusiastic team, changes > > to SRS on the fly, simple client. But things changed over > > two years. > > > Since v.2.?? client became unmanageable. You can use it as is, > > or it's much easier to build your own from scratch, even > > if all you need is translate messages. Raised response time > > of support... And since beginning - lack of control. Customers > > just do not understand, why if you sold them domain, email > > service and hosting, why you can't do simple change of admin > > email. Sometimes it's too hard to explain this to person, > > who don't know exactly what browser is. > > > So a while ago we switched to other registrar. First we didn't > > consider them as replacement for OpenSRS, we needed domains, > > which OpenSRS do not offer. And surprisingly they have very > > good and fast support team with qualified tech personnel, simple > > API (6 pages, 30 pages with detailed examples, working manage > > interface was build by one programmer in three days), very > > interesting and simple daemon-based access to their system and > > total, absolute control over domains for reseller. Total - we > > allowed to delete domains, decline transfer requests and verify > > incoming transfers, not mention ability change every bit in > > contacts and nameservers. Control is so total, that sometimes it > > hurts - i.e. registrar do not send renewal messages to registrant, > > so you have care about this yourself and so on. That was exactly > > what we needed. Price wasn't real reason, $7.80 per domain was > > just a nice bonus, we'll going to switch to them even with $15 > > per domain. Real reason was control over domain - only one thing > > that OpenSRS can't or don't want provide to resellers. > > Don't ask me who's this registrar, it's not appropriate to advert > > him in this list. > > > All I want to say - sometimes price isn't reason why peoples > > leave OpenSRS. There are other, much more important factors. -- I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.
