On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:07, Elliot Noss wrote: > The most important point that I take away from this thread is that I haven't > done a good enough job of describing what I mean by "innovating at the > edge"
What you haven't done a good job of is understanding that one of the reasons why your early adopter RSPs joined OpenSRS's program was because they DIDN'T offer services like this, and were a pure registration provider offering only wholesale services. What you do by taking this action is lower the value of the resellers (who are most likely your largest source of business) who ALREADY differentiate themselves by offering these services in house. You say it makes sense for them to let you take over that service as a justification for them losing some of the key things that have differentiated them from the numerous unqualified clueless resellers who wouldn't know what a CNAME record was if their lives depended on it. What amazes me is that a Verisign subsidiary seems to understand this better than Tucows, and has completely resisted encroaching on their resellers business like Tucows is now doing to theirs. Tucows has changed its focus to one that is more directed at pandering to the lowest level of reseller, who beg for features like this because they know they are incapable of undertaking it themselves. So now Tucows will provide it for them, and further erode the differentiation that the best and most innovative resellers have built for themselves. Anyone remember way back near the beginning when Tucows gave assurances that implied they would never do this? I read them carefully recently and notice now that they NEVER explicitly said they wouldn't, but certainly gave that impression. What they did was wait until the number of resellers at the lower end of the competency level grew to a level where they wouldn't be hurt by pissing off their competent resellers, and are willing to shaft them now. I saw the writing on the wall when the email service was announced, and we've been planning for when this day would come. I also stopped recommending Tucows as a wholesale registration provider to other ISP operators. It's a matter of principle. -- domainwhiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
