Moving on from this topic but related.
I see that several members of the list are in Canada and elsewhere so I'm not
sure how seriously you were affected but after Sept. 11 last year we had
several months of pretty much 0 new business and a small but significant
percentage of lost business from our customers who were also suffering. It
has gradually picked up but remains very slow. Our advertising has been
completely useless trying several different mediums and approaches. The only
new business we are getting is from an occasional random web signup (maybe
from a search engine) and word of mouth/referrals from happy customers and
the like. This is great but not enough to keep us going.
How are you guys who are smaller like me. Let's say with under 1,000 hosting
and/or domain customers. How are you staying viable? What are you doing to
keep business coming in and increase profits to meet the costs that are
constantly increasing?
Regarding the comments below, I know very well how sleezy Verisign is. I've
had the misfortune of dealing with them in at least 4 of their companies.
It brought joy to my heart to hear about the class action lawsuit against
them for their sleezy domain practices. I just hope it goes somewhere and
has an impact.
I think some of my comments and questions of been misinterpreted. I am not a
promoter of Verisign or Enom. I was looking for some reasons to stay with
Tucows. Maybe just a little morale support with a bunch of peers giving
examples of why they feel it remains a great company to work with and is
worth paying more. I thought I read somewhere a few months back, that Tucows
was going public or had been bought out by someone. When something like that
happens, corporate philosophies are often the first casualty. I guess I'm
just looking for some affirmation that Tucows hasn't "gone Hollywood"
In a message dated 9/7/2002 9:16:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, joey@jolson.ca
writes:
> You asked "What distinguishes Tucows these days from Microsoft or
> Verisign?"..... have you ever tried to transfer a domain name away from
> VeriSign Registrar (Network Solutions) remotely close to the expiry date? I
> guess you've never been to http://www.verisignoff.org/ or
> http://www.nsihorrorstories.com
>
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