I just completed the survey and I'm a little baffled. Does Tucows really
not understand the concept of DNS to the degree exemplified in the survey?
Domain redirection, domain parking ("under construction") and email
forwarding are in no, way, shape or form DNS services. These are web
hosting and email hosting services. Yes, these services are provided by
other registrars, so I suppose I understand where the idea came from. But
it's a pretty bad fit given what I understand to be OpenSRS' current
customer base. You're bound to cheese off folks who already offer these
services, and who may have a strategic advantage over other OpenSRS
resellers by offering them ("value added" or some other such buzzword). Not
to mention the time and money they may have already invested in developing
these systems in-house.
I'm almost tempted to say that if you're going to go there, then just sell
the whole package of resalable web hosting services as well as domain name
registration and quit screwing around with bits and pieces that require a
lot of real work for the reseller to integrate. Sure, you'll join the ranks
of thousands of web hosting providers that provide reseller accounts, but
maybe you can bank on your name and reputation as a registrar. There's very
little doubt, though, that you'd enrage a large percentage of your
resellers.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abel Wisman" <abel@able-towers.com>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:15 PM
Subject: Tucows survey
> When mail was added as a "wanted" service several of us protested and
> predicted that more and more "hosting" services would follow.
>
> Here is the next one in the making.
>
> At one time, when openSRA started the promise was made never to move
> into the territory of those who were then selling or even going to sell
> the domains. Slowly but surely that has changed and Tucows will use its
> enormous base brought to it by those in those days that believed in the
> principles to conquer an even more prominent place on the internet. From
> largest domain registrar to largest whole-sale supplier of hosting add
> ons.
>
> I am more then dissapointed.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Tue Oct 19 2004 - 23:37:44 EDT