If $250 is too high for you then I suggest that you work with an OpenSRS
reseller. Sorry but $250 is nothing to us, we pay more than that for most of
our phone lines. We look at the cash that OpenSRS wants as part of the cost
of doing business with OpenSRS and it was factored into our decision to join
OpenSRS. Maybe you should have thought a little more about what you were
getting into, to see if it really was a good fit for you. OpenSRS probably
won't be a good fit for everyone. Just like not everyone sees the value in
our service as an ISP and they want free internet service, those customers
aren't a good fit for us and we turn them away and don't haggle over price.
Tim Jung
System Admin
Internet Gateway Inc.
tjung@igateway.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard B. Pyne" <rpyne@kinfolk.org>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: purpose of open SRS
> I would like to start by quoting from the OpenSRS web site opening page:
>
> "OpenSRS is founded on the principle that access to the community domain
> name registry should be open to as many people as possible. It is a public
> resource and should be managed in the same manner that a park is - open
> and accessible to all. It is the mandate of OpenSRS to uphold this
> principle."
>
> Notice that it does not say "open and accessible to those who have money
> to spare" For many of us small service providers who are trying to grow,
> $250.00 is a significant chunk of liquid operating capital. For me it is
> about what I will spend in an entire year for registrations for myself and
> my customers.
>
> How many of you would propose that the phone company demand that you pay a
> full year in advance in order to get phone service, or for that matter how
> about your electricity, water, heat, etc? This is in the same realm. It is
> an expense of doing business. How many of you would consider opening a
> retail outlet if your supplier demanded that you buy a full year of
> inventory before openning your doors? How many of you would or could be in
> business today if you had been faced with these demands as you were first
> starting up? The first documents I read from OpenSRS suggested paying for
> what you expect to register in two or three months. For the small startup
> this is very likely in the range of $40 to $50. This is a burden that we
> can afford and still continue to expand all areas of our business.
>
> Read the last two sentences of the the OpenSRS statement again and then
> look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you honestly believe in
> principle or just the greed of "I've got mine, now lets wee how we can
> stop anyone else from getting any."
>
> --Richard B. Pyne
>
>
> On 1 Feb 00, at 21:09, LEX DUNKELMAN wrote:
>
> > Well we seemed to have developed some controversy! Not always a bad
thing.
> > The actual number really is not important -- whether it remains 25
one-year
> > ($250.00) more, or even less. The real issue is for open SRS to be kept
as a
> > wholesale Avenue available primarily to ISP's and Web site developer's.
Do
> > you want open SRS to be directly competing for your customers Michael ?
> > (at http://www.ontheinter.net)
> >
> > Also, open SRS should be as much for professional Web site developer's
who
> > make their money providing Web site services as ISP's. (A Web site
developer
> > is in effect and Internet service provider and they should be a full
> > participant in open SRS.) I do believe however that while as a Web site
> > developer you can buy wholesale, you should be entitled to charge your
> > customers retail. You have expenses and costs of doing business and if
the
> > customer pays the same as if he bought directly from network solutions,
> > everybody's winning. I don't believe however the customer should be
cutting
> > you out of your markup by buying directly through open SRS. The your
> > comments Mike and Michael would be appreciated.
> > Lex Dunkelman
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Richard B. Pyne, KB7RMU
> rpyne@kinfolk.org
> http://pyne.kinfolk.org/rbp2
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