Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update [Domains] - 08/04/2004

From: Robert L Mathews (lists@tigertech.com)
Date: Sun Apr 11 2004 - 02:35:43 EDT


At 4/9/04 7:35 PM, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:

>Could you, as in all of you that are reading this, could sell enough
>"privacy" to make it worth implementing on our side?
>
>I've observed that there tends to be a lot of demand for privacy, but
>very little demand for privacy products.

Yeah. As someone else pointed out, people expect it, and are actually
insulted when told they have to pay extra for it.

>Unless we can quantify some reasonable demand for this type of a
>feature, its always going to fall lower on the priority list than
>initiatives with real revenue implications...(that was the faceless
>corporation rearing its head).

No, that's fair enough. I'd guess you could make a go of it selling it as
an add-on, but honestly, I wouldn't resell it; I don't think it's the
right thing to do -- doing that just draws attention to the fact that the
current privacy situation is awful, which is counterproductive to
non-privacy-enhanced sales. If you could somehow swing it so that all
Tucows domains were privacy enhanced at no extra charge, I suspect you'd
have a land rush, though.

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies      http://www.tigertech.net/

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Darwin



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