On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 07:29, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: > [Note: I only send this to the list because domainwhiz hasn't done me > the favor of response to my earlier private message.] > > > > On 6/5/2003 9:17 AM domainwhiz noted that: > > > > > > And since they have shown they are willing to effectively deceive their > > resellers like that, and encroach on them in this way, there is no > > reason to feel assured they will not further expand that and begin > > competing with you directly. > > Let me get this straight, according to you, Tucows is out to destroy the > businesses of our channel partners and are trying to accomplish this by > deceiving our partners. And further, its lucky that Verisign is out > there because they've figured out some customer service magic that we > haven't and are coming to your rescue on a shining white horse and not > competing with your for customers. > > Please tell me that I've completely misunderstood what you've said over > the last 24 hours.
Overstating what I said, grossly. I simply said that Verisign's wholesale arm has shown that they will NOT do the very thing that Tucows IS doing with regard to service encroachment. By comparison, their customer support lacks. They are not some shining white horse, but given a choice between a wholesaler who is devaluing their top resellers' businesses, and has become less and less cost competitive, especially for medium to high volume resellers, to one who provides us a better price, and nothing but a raw domain registration interface. The differentiation between OpenSRS and Verisign is becoming less clear as Tucows continues to proceed along with plans like this one. And the justification to use Tucows over Verisign's wholesale division, which was that Tucows was such a white hat in the industry, is becoming a much less compelling argument in their favor. -- domainwhiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
