thecnicly adpept ?
> From: JB <info@bwp.net>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:43:54 -0700
> To: domainwhiz <domainwhiz@yahoo.com>
> Cc: discuss-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: Re: Tucows survey
>
> You've made some valid points but your conclusions are wrong and you
> make a lot of assumptions.
>
> If you are not with tucows for the support, then why bother? I can think
> of half a dozen cheaper registrars, of course they all offer the same
> type of commodity services you're upset about.
>
> You need to rethink your business if tucows offering dns service is
> going to hurt you. I would think if you were so thecnicly adpept, you
> should be able to wholesale commodity services also.
>
> Best,
>
> ~jb
>
> domainwhiz wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 12:10, JB wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Forgive me for wading in on this but I can't resist.
>>>
>>> Domainwiz, you can get these types of services from almost *ANY*
>>> registrar.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Tucows is the leading wholesale registrar, and the major supplier of
>> wholesale domain name registration services to the domain reseller
>> community.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'll admit that when Tucows started offering them I was a little
>>> bothered but hey, things change.
>>>
>>> The technology barrier is being lowerd, deal with it. Gandi has been
>>> offering these very services for on 12.00 per domain name foe a couple
>>> of years now.
>>>
>>> Customer service, customer service, customer service...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The point is that should my dollars go to support a registrar who is
>> creating competition for our company and acting in a fashion that will
>> cause a direct impact to their higher end customers? When you add in
>> the lack of competitive pricing, and the fact that they gave us all
>> implied assurances that this wouldn't happen, while trying to placate us
>> and keep us as customers so they could continue to enjoy our
>> revenue....someone give me a reason why the better resellers should
>> consider Tucows. Statistically we have little need for support from
>> them. I am sure most of the better resellers are about the same.
>>
>> You obviously feel that you should just go with the flow, and let the
>> revenue you send Tucows way support these types of movements. That is
>> your choice, and your right to say you will do that publicly. As it is
>> mine to say the opposite, and explain why. Tucows will then need to
>> take the two viewpoints and decide how they will respond. I have no
>> doubt that they will go ahead with the service offering. Tucows has
>> shown in the past year that they have changed such that these issues are
>> no longer important to them. Elliot is good at playing coy when it
>> suits him, trying to insist that this movement is good for all
>> resellers. Insisting that if he could just explain it better we'd all
>> agree with him. That is simply not true. We understand the points he's
>> making, and we are saying that they simply do not apply in the wide
>> fashion he wants everyone to believe they do so he can justify the
>> movement in this direction after doing everything short of specifically
>> promising they wouldn't when they were told a couple years ago that a
>> movement like this would mean a departure of major resellers.
>>
>> Like Paul said in an earlier email, "If I make my services generic, I
>> reduce their relative value." This is why we do not use OpenSRS generic
>> stock scripts, and why we developed our own suite of services, because
>> we were not a "generic" OpenSRS reseller, and that is how we
>> differentiated ourselves, and justified our customers' decisions to
>> choose us for their domain registration business. By making these
>> services "generic" Tucows devalues our business.
>>
>> You say other registrars offer these services, but they do not have the
>> impact that Tucows offering them will have on the market.
>>
>> I know they will lose our business over this. I also know from email
>> exchanges asking about what providers we have hedged with that others
>> are considering or have decided the same should Tucows go through with
>> this. They have to decide if they want to go that route with that in
>> mind, and the only way they can know that is if we tell them that, here
>> on the community forum, the primary open channel for discussion.
>>
>> Can a company who has lost 70% (more?) of their stock value over the
>> last 2 years since their merger with a publicly traded company really
>> afford to do that? I guess we will see.
>>
>>
>>
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