We would provide the interface the resellers want.
Cameron Powell
VP of Business Development and General Counsel
SnapNames
115 NW First Avenue
Suite 300
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 219-9990 x229
(503) 274-9749 fax
cameronp@snapnames.com
Connecting Registrars and their Customers to the Secondary Market in Domain
Names
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Benson [mailto:kris@abccom.bc.ca]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:28 PM
To: Elliot Noss
Cc: discuss-list@opensrs.org
Subject: Re: Ok, a quick question (Was 'Re: ATTN: Resellers -- input
requested on domain name back-orderi ng -- John Payne & Rich')
Elliot Noss wrote:
>
> Quick note. I was asking whether it was a good idea or bad idea to have
> folks like Cameron raise the issue with you guys directly on the list when
> they want us to make it available to you.
Short form: yes, it was good, and please continue to do it.
Long form: I think it was a good idea. I don't think that this list needs
to be as stringent about staying on topic -- we all have (or should have)
the ability to filter messages so we can keep this list seperate from our
important stuff, so it shouldn't really be an issue.
> A couple of you thought I was asking whether us offering SnapNames was a
> good or bad idea.
Well, that was my impression and I'm going to share the answer to it to:
Short form: Not as they have proposed.
Long form: I believe William X. Walsh covered this quite well -- why ask a
company with dubious character to provide a service that surely OpenSRS
could provide directly, or provide the hooks for the RSP to do so itself.
As you may have noted in my previous e-mails with Cameron, I really don't
like the idea of paying (or having "store credit") for something I didn't
receive.
> Please note, we would only offer it if a) you control the customer, b) you
> can manage it through the api and c) we can get you a better deal than you
> would be able to get yourself.
>From what I can gather from Cameron's description, none of these are
necessarily the case. I believe the idea he has is that there would be a
seperate interface for a SnapName product, which the customer would be
referred to if they need the product.
-kb
-- Kris Benson ABC Communications +1 (250)612-5270 x14 +1 (888)235-1174 x14
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