Thanks for that.
In a message dated 9/11/2002 12:23:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, paul@it.ca
writes:
> For a price difference that works out to about fifty cents per month.
> Well, if your prospective customers are penny pinching that much, more
> power to 'em. Our usual response to queries like this is that if they
> choose to use a different company as their registrar, we won't be able
> to assist them in anything relating to that service. We tell 'em that
> if they're comfortable managing their whois data and DNS servers
> themselves, or if they're confident that the customer service department
> of <insert registrar here> can help them through the rough spots, they
> are free to save a couple of bucks.
>
> Fine and dandy. *We* certainly don't consider the profits from domain
> registration to be a significant portion of our revenue. For five to
> ten bucks A YEAR, we'd have to focus solely on registration to make it
> even close to profitable. Our money is from hosting, and we provide the
> registration services in an attempt to simplify things for our customers
> and we make sure our customers know this. If they feel that the extra
> hassle they'll incur is worth the $5 a year savings, it certainly won't
> be affecting our bottom line.
>
> If you really want to be in the registrar business, look at becoming
> accredited yourself. Otherwise, take a serious look at where your
> business currently makes the most profit, and focus on improving service
> and lowering costs in that area. We consider domain registration
> through OpenSRS to be one of those things used to improve our hosting
> service, rather than a profit centre unto itself.
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