That's called "fat finger pig lating"
Duh...
Mark Petersen wrote:
>Me too Swerve...
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>>thecnicly adpept ?
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>Huh??????? Uh, what language is that?
>-Mark
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>----- 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
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>>thecnicly adpept ?
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>Best,
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>>>~jb
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>>>domainwhiz wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 12:10, JB wrote:
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>>>>>Forgive me for wading in on this but I can't resist.
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>>>>>Domainwiz, you can get these types of services from almost *ANY*
>>>>>registrar.
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>>>>Tucows is the leading wholesale registrar, and the major supplier of
>>>>wholesale domain name registration services to the domain reseller
>>>>community.
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>>>>>I'll admit that when Tucows started offering them I was a little
>>>>>bothered but hey, things change.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>Customer service, customer service, customer service...
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>>>>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
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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
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>>>>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
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>>>>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
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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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