Fagyal Csongor wrote on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:51:09 +0200:
> Well. It's a _rebate_, isn't it? We are not getting .info-s for $1 -
> instead, for every 10 pieces of .info registered we get "free" credit
> for 9 other domains.
No, you don't. If I would get 9 for free right after each ten sold I
wouldn't have a problem with that, not at all.
See my example in the other mail. It's a "self-killing" promotion. If it
became a success you would have to kill it early on because of the huge
expenses rolling over you.
>
> Just don't think .info costs $1 now. :-) It's a promotion, that's all.
> If we would really be getting and selling .info for $1, we [I mean: all
> resellers] could maybe get a million(?) new registrations in a few
> months or so. But will those registrants who go for this low price pay
> the renewal fee after 1 year?
>
That's not the point here. Either you want to be that promotion a success
or not. With this rebate approach you just kill a possible success right
before it began. The core problem is that you still need to have $10 for
each sale in your account and this for a long time. With the current
system there happens only one thing: nobody does a promotion and every
reseller sacks in the $9 quietly as an extra profit.
Kai
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