same here
We did the same - exactly 10% of submissions landed
but it was not much work at all -
5 hours to extract and deduplicate active customers' emails and send out
one time mailing to customer base
10 minutes to print and sign contract and email compliance
10 minutes to post us agreement
30 minutes to configure pre-reg Perl script and publish on the site
1 hour or so spending on various calls emails answering customers
questions
we did not charge upfront but saved the cc info on file, telling so our
clients
1 hour to scout the domains for bad spelling and emailing the 4
customers who did make an error -
estimated 4-5 hours to charge credit cards for successes and notify the
customers who did not succeed in pre-regs
= bottom line = somewhere in the hood of 15 to 20 hours of labor =
thanks to todays .us registrations our volume in domain years for today
equals 10 regular days - so we are looking at 33% sales increase this
month thanks to .US
We found biz/info labor intensive but profitable and are pretty happy
about the US regs - that percentage actually exceeded my expectations,
we had funds earmarked for 10% though. Also I look at it as another
opportunity to acquire new customers
cheers
Genie
----- Original Message -----
From: <domains@myostrich.net>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:54 AM
Subject: .US domain results
> OK, we just did a quick post-mortem on the .us pre-registration
process,
> and it was not impressive.
>
> We received exactly 10% of the domain names we submitted.
>
> None of these names were what I would have considered to be high
> profile, or interesting domains. In reviewing the names of the domains
> we received, I would guess that we were the only one to have a
> registration request in on the domains we were awarded.
>
> Does anyone else have better results?
>
> I'm not being critical of OpenSRS here, don't get me wrong. I'm simply
> trying to understand whether it makes any sense to participate in
these
> events in the future, as this one will not pay for the time invested,
> not to mention credit card processing fees for first accepting and now
> refunding attempted orders.
>
> Anyone with more impressive results?
>
> -Tim
> --
> myOstrich Internet
> http://www.myostrich.net
>
>
>
>
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