I'd be interested in getting access to names that are dropping.
Josh/Swerve
> Hello,
>
> --- Ben Kennedy <ben@zygoat.ca> wrote:
>> I have to question the wisdom in this notion. Obviously for any
>> given
>> product offering there is a threshold below which it is not
>> profitable
>> (either because revenue is zero or negative). Perhaps Tucows did
>> some
>> forecasting and concluded that the potential revenues from a service
>> nobody really wants to buy or sell would be outweighed by the costs
>> of
>> setting it up.
>
> The simplest approach would just involve partnering with Pool or
> Namewinner or eNom or SnapNames for $10K/month or whatever they're
> currently getting for batch-pool thread rentals. Over a year, that's a
> lot of "easy" money that can be reinvested into enhanced services for
> resellers, or passed on to shareholders, or adding customer service
> reps, etc.
>
> And, maybe once some of the folks who've caught a $1,000+ name
> experience OpenSRS, they might like it enough to switch other names to
> the company. Folks who are less price-sensitive, and more
> service-oriented are probably the ideal customer for OpenSRS (assuming
> they don't take a disproportionate number of resources of the firm in
> support time....I'm probably "low maintenance", I hope!). :)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
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