I didn't see a survey, but I am annoyed at what I am hearing.
I had a nice conversation with one of the sales reps, and now suddenly
they are deciding to directly compete with us. Perhaps this is just
coincidence.
This sounds an awful lot like the practices of some other domain
registrars......
For the record, I am officially unhappy with tucows now. Apparently some
of my previous comments about our relationship with them are not reflected
by our company's view. If I were to comment now, I'm pretty sure they
would.
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Tim Woodcock twoodcock@baremetal.com
BareMetal.com Inc. http://baremetal.com/
Software Development Team
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Message received 2003-06-03 from 'Jim McAtee':
> 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.
>
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