Enom is competing, if not beating pool in the drop business (for now), because they are using current technology in a very smart way.
Besides I trust tucows a lot more then I trust NSI. They could quickly become a major player.
~jb
Loren Stocker wrote:
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
