Our service strategy is to offer a comprehensive domain registration and management system at a fair price. Each domain must contribute to its cost of operation so that the sales for one TLD are not subsidize the costs of another TLD. The registrar prices for both of these TLDs is significantly higher than the prices for gTLDs. This is reflected in the ccTLD price.
> The public - I repeat public - price there is : CHF 75 (1st year) = $63.00 > and CHF 35 (transfer, renewal) = $29.40 > I could not find the registrar buying rate, but I suppose it should be a > lot less Regarding .CH, in order to qualify for any special pricing with SWITCH a registrar must have a minimum of 1000 domains under management. Suffice it to say that we are not quite there yet ;-) Coincidentally, I am pleased to report that I have just learned the registry operator for .fr has decreased their price to registrars by the equivalent of US $6 and we will be passing all of this decrease on to our resellers. The new .fr price is US $19 effective immediately. Thanks for your input. James Woods Product Manager Domains On 1/20/05 7:40 PM, "A Lucas Victoria Group Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Receiving request from 2 different customers to register .ch and .fr, they > told us that we were expansive. > So I went to Switch (nic.ch) pages http://www.switch.ch/fr/id/terms/ to see > the .ch price. > The public - I repeat public - price there is : CHF 75 (1st year) = $63.00 > and CHF 35 (transfer, renewal) = $29.40 > I could not find the registrar buying rate, but I suppose it should be a > lot less > OpenSRS resellers pay $75 (1st year) and $ 50.00 for transfer, renewal > As for .fr, we could find a lot of them at 20 euros ( average public > price), I went to the nic.fr page to see the price that the registrars > could purchase http://www.afnic.fr/afnic/adhesion/prestataire/tarifs In > 2005, buying price is 9 euros = $11.65 > There is also a one time set up fee (depend of contract) 1450 euros or 425 > euros > Tucows resellers pay $25 (year) > We know that Tucows must do profit and it's a good thing for both of us. > But it appears that for these 2 domains margin is excessive. If our buying > rates are more expansive than the public rates, how Tucows can sell these > european domains ? And - more important - what about our credibility vs > competitors or end users ? > > D.Laine > Webmaster
