At that price, I hope the buyer isn't also buying an obligation to
provide support to your existing customer base (esp those unhappy with
the current state of support).
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 10:37, Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote:
> Greetings BizOps List Readers,
>
> We are accepting bids on this sale until Friday 5pm EST of $8,000 or
> more. If you are interested, please e-mail me directly off-list.
>
> We are looking to sell the entire phpDomain codebase together with the
> website and domains (phpdomain.net and phpdomain.org). While this has
> been a profitable project, we are simply looking to concentrate on
> our core hosting business and building that up, rather than venturing
> off into OpenSRS development. The software had originally been developed
> for use on our own sites, so this has been quite a detour for us in
> selling the software, and there is a definite need for us to focus our
> available resources on our core business.
>
> The sale will include:
>
> - All rights to the phpDomain code (excellent intellectual property).
> The base software is licensed as LGPL, with the bulk, billing
> and a number of advanced features including .au registy support only
> available under a restricted commercial license to buyers. You may
> of course change the licensing structure as you deem fit, as the new
> owner.
>
> - There is excellent potential for new sales, but also for selling the
> existing customers new versions of the software or other related
> services or products. The customer database is fairly large, but we
> will request that the new owner agrees to comply with a privacy
> statement assuring that the customer data is not sold to third parties.
>
> - Website design, content and domains - phpdomain.net / phpdomain.org
> The site was professionally designed and we'll fully turn everything
> over to you.
>
> - License to use the members area software that allows for sale of the
> phpDomain software (we own the members area itself and would consider
> selling the software together with phpDomain if buyer is interested).
>
> - We will put you in touch with the developer, who we suggest you hire
> to make further changes to the code, as he's quite competent and is
> obviously very aware of the existing code structure.
>
> phpDomain is a full implementation of the OpenSRS system in php with
> support for a dozen different payment gateways (the gateway code can
> be easily reused in other applications) and a number of other features
> including a full admin area, statistics, and bulk domain features.
>
> The phpDomain software now includes support for AUSRegistry for .au
> domain names through the EPP protocol. The protocol is apparently
> being adapted by a number of other registrars, and should be fairly
> simple to adapt for those registries (Verisign is supposedly one of
> them). We have not yet attempted to sell the software to .au resellers,
> so that's a whole separate market for the new owner to explore.
>
> This sale is a great opportunity for someone who already sells pre-
> built OpenSRS sites, or wants to get into the business. If interested,
> we can recommend some awesome designers as well.
>
> If you are interested, please contact me off-list for more details
> including the monthly revenues. Serious inquiries only please, we
> are looking for a fair amount. Highest bid would not necessarily be
> the one to whom we will sell as the privacy of the customers is very
> important, as well as ability to provide good customer service.
>
> All issues that were previously brought up in relation to the licensing
> issues and Colin's code have been fully resolved between Colin and the
> phpDomain developer and are no longer an issue. I will have no problem
> having our legal team draft a transfer of intellectual property agreement
> if requested, as well.
>
> Sincerely,
> )))))
> Vladislav (ô ô)
> -------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-----------------------------
> Vladislav S. Davidzon davidzon@thinkhost.com
> Executive Director, ThinkHost http://www.thinkhost.com
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"
-- domainwhiz <domainwhiz@yahoo.com>
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