Frankly.. price fixing is neede for organisations who wish to solely survive
on domain registration. but friends.. as per my observations in last few
days, that domain registration can not exist as a solo business in any ways.
it can just be a add up service or a value addition.
i was taking up the issues of open pricing and all.. but now i realise that
the whole industry is upto killing the profit margins of each other and
under such circumstances whatever opensrs is doing has done for benefit of
thousands of isp's.
can you expect it to be a business, when a icann accredited registrar have
to sell a domain for a profit margin of $4 ?? it certainly is not. this
business has been killed by price crashes even before it came up !
it has proved that trading dont work on internet. you have to be innovative
and have something bright to provide, with the fire in it! it must have the
value, which only you can produce and noone else can reproduce it easily.
bill gates may be a villain to lots of ppl.. but what he said is that
'obsolete your product yourself, before anybody else does it' !
anyways i am sorry to those great guys who opposed me all the way.. i think
they were right about the way net business works or wil work in future.
cheers.
abhishek rungta
>From: Coolfred Internet Services <coolfred@coolfred.org>
>Reply-To: coolfred@coolfred.org
>To: bill@daze.net, <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
>Subject: Re: RE: New Ideas for OpenSRS (or wish list) - Reseller Access
>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:32:38 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>
>--- Bill Gerrard <20000303030705.F321E80B9@sitemail.everyone.net> wrote:
> >> Is anyone interested in setting some sort of guideline amongst
> >> all resellers not to sell domains for under a certain amount,
> >
> >That is price fixing and is illegal in the United States.
>
>It is hardly price fixing, since we are not the ONLY ones selling domains.
>As I said before you may even give away domains to your own webhosting
>customers, but I doubt it if we all agree that a minimum of say $20 is a
>reasonable price to non-webhosting customers, would be illegal.
>
>People all around the world have been "agreeing" on prices and as consumers
>we have no choice but to pay. Just look at the prices of gas. Oil companies
>"agree" that they should maintain a certain profit margin and everybody
>goes along. OPEC members "agree" to raise the price by lowering supply and
>we still pay for it. It is not like consumers don't have a choice to buy
>their domains from non-OpenSRS resellers.
>
>Farhad Sadeghi
>Coolfred Internet Services
>http://www.coolfred.net
>
>
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