Aside from costs, Auctions are great until you have to find Internet access at 7 am, Sunday morning while on vacation:(.... I just went to breakfast.
Pool and Snapnames organized dozens of Registrars. It's too late to do a competing service in a big way, but never too late to launch an internal service with a self-pricing model that doesn't involve a summons. For sure, there are ways to beat Pool and Snapnames;) Best, Loren JB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the auction model is ok. I would like to see tucows enter the > market in the same fashion as pool and offer a resellers an interface to > the drop list and backorders. The auction would be handled by tucows but > the reseller could build a custom interface to find / search and resell > the backorders. > > I would suggest looking at enom. Not so much the interface but the > auction drop model. They are catching a lot. A recent article eluded to > an optimized the request system. I think they are using .net to > coordinate the request to NSI across multiple registrars. > > Loren Stocker wrote: > > > Hi Elliot, > > > > Interesting that Snapnames is now eager to shun their own EXCLUSIVE option > > (Snapback) in favor of increased revenues. The free market has spoken -- > > volumes in regards to the WLS option. What's next? An auction at the Registry > > level with all proceeds going to the Evil Empire? > > > > I do think Tucows can add value here. Clearly, joining the many involved as > > Snapnames or Pool agents would change nothing. However, allowing us on-demand > > bandwidth or perhaps a more effective drop service would help us compete with > > Snapnames and Pool. > > > > There is now few ways to avoid auctions for good domains, those we might have > > secured for $50 from Snapnames will now go for hundreds, even thousands. I'd > > rather pay for bandwidth and take my chances upfront. At least I won't be > > summoned to some stupid auction -- against robots! --and some inconvenient > > date and time (unless I lose at Tucows). > > > > Any hope? Anyone else have ideas? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Loren >
