Hello, --- Ben Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to question the wisdom in this notion. Obviously for any > given > product offering there is a threshold below which it is not > profitable > (either because revenue is zero or negative). Perhaps Tucows did > some > forecasting and concluded that the potential revenues from a service > nobody really wants to buy or sell would be outweighed by the costs > of > setting it up.
The simplest approach would just involve partnering with Pool or Namewinner or eNom or SnapNames for $10K/month or whatever they're currently getting for batch-pool thread rentals. Over a year, that's a lot of "easy" money that can be reinvested into enhanced services for resellers, or passed on to shareholders, or adding customer service reps, etc. And, maybe once some of the folks who've caught a $1,000+ name experience OpenSRS, they might like it enough to switch other names to the company. Folks who are less price-sensitive, and more service-oriented are probably the ideal customer for OpenSRS (assuming they don't take a disproportionate number of resources of the firm in support time....I'm probably "low maintenance", I hope!). :) Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/
