On 7/7/05, Israel Dacanay Canasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't a joke. > > You should understand that .ph domains has a relatively small market > compared to .com/.net and others. Compared to other special tld's, .ph is > cheap! For example, .jp is $120, .co.UK is $40 !
those aren't "special" and that's the reason why companies like demon in the UK offer free subdomains under "xxx.demon.co.uk" to get around the cost. while it is true that .ph domains are relatively small compared to the Verisign domains, that's not an excuse. as i've pointed out, the actual (technical) cost of running the domain is cheap. $200/month will get you two dedicated servers. and (ostensibly) the cost of labor here in the Philippines is cheap. so what gives? someone wants to buy a castle in Austria too? .. > I am against the monopoly too but domains.ph is kind enough to offer > reselling which allows .ph domains to be sold at lower prices, like our > company's offer which is $30. I know all about that reselling. My employer is a reseller as well. Wow, $5 off. That's less than 20%. If Cisco can give 40%-plus reseller commission, and they're selling REAL HARDWARE, as opposed to this case where .PH is selling basically vapor, it's immediately obvious that the so-called reseller commission is nothing more than a bone thrown to us, the dogs. And I have seen some of the anti-competitive practices being done. Such as offering free vanity domains to people who subscribed with EMC (and I don't mean the storage company!!) Of course this was many years ago, I don't know if this (mal)practice still continues. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
