Me too Swerve...
> thecnicly adpept ?
Huh??????? Uh, what language is that?
-Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Swerve" <swerve@swerve.com>
To: "JB" <info@bwp.net>
Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: Tucows survey
> 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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