Fabian and Alex,
You are both part right and part wrong. Price is only one factor for most
people, but not the only.
Prior to becoming an RSP operator myself, I have taken my chances with
unreliable registrars to save some money on the names that don't really
matter too much to me (and how many of those are there? not many -- most DO
matter, that's why you register them in the first place). But I have paid
many times those low fees to be sure of getting the names that DO matter
(most) in the registry with services I knew to be reliable before someone
else beat me to it.
Now the real trick is to offer low prices AND top service and quality. It
can be done, of course, but if you wind up below where the two lines of real
cost and real income cross, you won't be in business long. What that means
for most businesses offering quality service is that they may not be
rock-bottom cheapest overall, but low enough to attract clients and good
enough to keep them. Or they find some other way of skinning the cat, like
volume, targeted advertising, other products (like that value-added
mentioned in Alex's e-mail) etc., etc. (which sounds a lot like the sites
cited in your postings). There is no question that things are moving in
directions that are going to force all of us to become more and more
creative to win and retain clients -- but isn't that what competition and
the free market is really all about?
Good luck, and survival not only to the fittest, but the smartest, too.
Frank Yacenda
President
Alpha Opportunities
www.dotyourdomain.com
$14.99/year domain registrations
-----Original Message-----
From: Toxik - Fabian Rodriguez <Fabian.Rodriguez@toxik.com>
To: alex@dayak.com <alex@dayak.com>; bizops-list@opensrs.org
<bizops-list@opensrs.org>
Date: Thursday, June 22, 2000 6:25 PM
Subject: RE: Are we all screwed?
>Alex,
>
>We have been offering this for 6 months now...
>Why we don't advertise yet is another story.
>
>But yes, you are right. Charging more than cost for a domain name
>registration will make your customers choose the pther guys, even if they
>are not as good as you.
>
>Cheers from Montreal,
>
>Fabian Rodriguez - Associate Director
>Outsourcing and Business Development
>Toxik Technologies Inc. - Montreal, QC, Canada
>www.toxik.com - Phone: (514) 528-6945 · Fax: (514) 221-3329
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-bizops-list@opensrs.org
>> [mailto:owner-bizops-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of alex@dayak.com
>> Sent: June 22, 2000 10:53 AM
>> To: bizops-list@opensrs.org
>> Subject: Are we all screwed?
>>
>>
>>
>> A friend of mine of sent me this url.
>>
>> http://www.registerclub.com/index2.htm
>>
>> I think there's nothing more to be said. I think the only way to survive
>> in this biz is to offer added value services.
>>
>>
>> Alexey Zilber
>> DAYAK
>> Need to register or transfer a domain?
>> www.dayak.com charges only $15/year.
>> 40 megs of hosting space? $10!
>>
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