Oh the Venerable Charles/Chuck D rears his ghostly presence thru a Mike
Allen rumour. Rumour based on .... ??
Chuck for Presidency of the United States of Whatever!
Whatever.
(For those of you politically hairtriggered these days, the reference has to
do with a pop song/video that's making the rounds on the Net. It's called
the United States of Whatever!)
---------
Imo, All nations need to seriously reflect on their current "foreign"
policies. Arrogance blocks wisdom. ~Swerve
> From: "Mike Allen" <discusslist@4cheapdomains.net>
> Organization: 4CheapDomains.Net
> Reply-To: "Mike Allen" <discusslist@4cheapdomains.net>
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:48:28 -0500
> To: "Richard Jones" <powerhouse@servicenterprises.com>, "discuss-list"
> <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Subject: Re: Register.com buying out Tucows/OpenSRS??!!??
>
> We are already developing one ;O) We seen things like this coming on a
> while ago and I fear to say may be a reason that Charles left ???? Hope i'm
> wrong... Only time will tell ;o(
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Jones" <powerhouse@servicenterprises.com>
> To: "Elliot Noss" <enoss@tucows.com>; <hostmaster@digital-marketplace.net>;
> <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Register.com buying out Tucows/OpenSRS??!!??
>
>
>> Ah, so you MIGHT be interested in such a deal.
>>
>> Bad, Bad, Bad.
>>
>> That is NOT right. With that company, I would not see that as an excuse,
>> since they
>> are a horrible company. I hope you see the light, and stop all
> negotiations,
>> as that
>> will damage YOUR reputation. We are YOUR customers, if we wanted to be a
>> part of that horrible company, we would have joined THEM, not OpenSRS.
>>
>> If you continue in these talks, then that is why you cannot comment, as
> that
>> could
>> be insider trading, since this is a public company. Therefore, I must see
>> the light,
>> that this is just an excuse to not have to be obligated to say, in other
>> words, a guilt
>> trip. Register.com is not going to sell out, so what is the harm, if this
> is
>> untrue?
>>
>> If this does happen, then I personally, will put together a better SRS
> that
>> would compare
>> quite well to OpenSRS, and I would make sure it was never possible to be
>> sold to a
>> company with the ethics of someone horrible. I would do so, just to spite
>> all involved
>> in this deal. My company has plenty of investors who would love to fund
>> something like
>> this, if I decide to do so. I have no desire to, but if I'm forced I
> would.
>> No, this is not
>> a empty threat, or anything like that. I am not a big reseller, I joined
>> here just to have
>> something for a FEW clients that asked for it.
>>
>> I will NOT subject them to register.com, under any circumstances.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>>
>> I hope you will squash all rumors that exist, just because your
> "CUSTOMERS"
>> want you to.
>> If we all left, it would make it much easier for another company to have a
>> takeover, since your
>> stock would drop to virtually a few pennies. In fact, even just a rumor
> not
>> denied can do that.
>> I've seen it happen before. Take heed, with that last statement. ;o)
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Elliot Noss" <enoss@tucows.com>
>> To: <hostmaster@digital-marketplace.net>; <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:04 PM
>> Subject: RE: Register.com buying out Tucows/OpenSRS??!!??
>>
>>
>>> Ok. Let me try like this. It would be irresponsible, especially as a
>> public
>>> company, to comment on rumours that deal with M&A. In my years doing
> this
>>> there have been, literally, hundreds. To even deny things that had
>>> absolutely no basis could preclude discussions that may be very
>>> advantageous.
>>>
>>> Let me give you a real example. Many years ago (in a land far away) when
>> we
>>> were primarily a content company there was a small website that was run
> by
>> a
>>> couple guys that I was quite friendly with. There was a rumour on a list
>>> frequented by shareware and freeware developers who were/are the biggest
>>> constituency for our software business. The rumour said that we were
> going
>>> to do a deal with that website. I was both much more naive and a private
>>> company at the time and I leapt in and categorically denied the rumour.
>> Six
>>> months later that website was sold to one of our competitors in a deal
>> that
>>> was not great for the guys running it (who I really liked). When I
> called
>>> them saying "hey, why didn't you call me if you were looking to do a
> deal"
>>> they told me that they had read my denial of the rumour and had assumed
> I
>>> wasn' interested!
>>>
>>> The competitor, who was smaller then us at the time, levered that
>>> acquisition in to a large IPO and an even larger sale of the whole
> company
>>> months later. Lesson learned.
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Elliot Noss
>>> Tucows inc.
>>> 416-538-5494
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Hostmaster [mailto:hostmaster@digital-marketplace.net]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:30 PM
>>>> To: Elliot Noss; discuss-list@opensrs.org
>>>> Subject: RE: Register.com buying out Tucows/OpenSRS??!!??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, that does make sense to me, but it certainly doesn't answer
>>>> my/our question!
>>>>
>>>> Maybe you should 'go a bit deeper on why even commenting is not
>>>> appropriate'.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you could answer this: Are you not commenting because you
>>>> are not legally allowed to, or is it simply because you feel the
>>>> rumor is not worthy of a reply? Either way, you should be able to
>>>> answer without 'getting in trouble' with anyone.
>>>>
>>>> Its just that I would rather not base an important business
>>>> decision, switching from OpenSRS to whoever, based on rumor and/or my
>>>> reading between the lines of comments made.
>>>>
>>>> BUT, if the rumor is true, I will in no way get myself or my
>>>> business involved with Register.com! I would also be willing to bet
>>>> money that the majority of your resellers feel as I do in this
>>>> regard. Therefore I feel the need to keep asking...
>>>>
>>>> Nick Swift
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
>>>> [mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of Elliot Noss
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:43 PM
>>>> To: hostmaster@dmcom.net; George Kirikos; discuss-list@opensrs.org
>>>> Subject: RE: Register.com buying out Tucows/OpenSRS??!!??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear, it would be extremely inappropriate for me to
> comment
>> on
>>>> stuff like this, even if it was to categorically deny. I hope that
> makes
>>>> sense to most of you. If not, I am happy to go a bit deeper on why
> even
>>>> commenting is not appropriate.
>>>>
>>>> That is the official response. The unofficial response is that if I
>> stick
>>>> around long enough I am sure to be paired with Britney Spears in
>>>> some rumor!
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Elliot Noss
>>>> Tucows inc.
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
>>>>> [mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of Hostmaster
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 11:58 AM
>>>>> To: George Kirikos; discuss-list@opensrs.org
>>>>> Subject: RE: Register.com buying out Tucows/OpenSRS??!!??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's been almost a week since this message was posted.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did I miss the 'Official' response from OpenSRS/Tucows?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or has there been NO response?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wondering...
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick Swift
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
>>>>> [mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of George Kirikos
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:08 PM
>>>>> To: discuss-list@opensrs.org
>>>>> Subject: Register.com buying out Tucows/OpenSRS??!!??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> FuckedCompany.com is "reporting" rumours that Register.com is buying
>>>>> out Tucows/OpenSRS (ee their front page).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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