--- Ben Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:So in effect, gTLD pricing increases by ten cents from USD 10.00 to USD 10.10?
For those of us in Canada, it has gone from CAD $16 or so when OpenSRS opened its doors, to CAD $12 now. :) [although, you're on the money in terms of US pricing] It would be nice to be billed in Canadian dollars directly, though, as an option -- it would save the 2 or 3% that the banks steal from us on currency conversions when doing a refill from our credit cards. I'd rather give that % to Tucows (or split it with them) rather than give it to the banks.
Thast why we charge our Canadian customers in Canadian Dollars. It costs us nothing but it saves them the currency charge on their card.
If the .net successor registry lowers the wholesale cost to USD $4 or whatever, less than the current USD $6, will Tucows be passing that savings along? .ca pricing is scheduled to drop at the registry level too on July 1, 2005 (too late for my upcoming renewals), and it'd be nice to see a drop in those prices.
The .ca price at Tucows has dropped at least once since I have been using OpenSRS
in line with CIRA price drops.
However, I don't think the Canadian market is as price sensitive as the US,
based on the number of refugees we get from domainsatcost.ca who charge about half what we do.
Regards
Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net
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