Thanks for your reply, James.
And for the .fr new price.
But I continue to say that, when you know that Tucows is not competitive, a
19% margin is too much. (75-63=12)
Effort should be on both sides :)
You must think that a new registration is a new potential client for other
services and do your best to get this new client.
D.L
Le 20:00 21/01/05, vous avez icrit:
>Our service strategy is to offer a comprehensive domain registration and
>management system at a fair price. Each domain must contribute to its cost
>of operation so that the sales for one TLD are not subsidize the costs of
>another TLD. The registrar prices for both of these TLDs is significantly
>higher than the prices for gTLDs. This is reflected in the ccTLD price.
>
> > The public - I repeat public - price there is : CHF 75 (1st year) =
$63.00
> > and CHF 35 (transfer, renewal) = $29.40
> > I could not find the registrar buying rate, but I suppose it should be a
> > lot less
>
>Regarding .CH, in order to qualify for any special pricing with SWITCH a
>registrar must have a minimum of 1000 domains under management. Suffice it
>to say that we are not quite there yet ;-)
>
>Coincidentally, I am pleased to report that I have just learned the registry
>operator for .fr has decreased their price to registrars by the equivalent
>of US $6 and we will be passing all of this decrease on to our resellers.
>The new .fr price is US $19 effective immediately.
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>James Woods
>Product Manager Domains
>
>
>On 1/20/05 7:40 PM, "A Lucas Victoria Group Inc."
><alucas@internet-hosting.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Receiving request from 2 different customers to register .ch and .fr,
they
> > told us that we were expansive.
> > So I went to Switch (nic.ch) pages http://www.switch.ch/fr/id/terms/ to
see
> > the .ch price.
> > The public - I repeat public - price there is : CHF 75 (1st year) =
$63.00
> > and CHF 35 (transfer, renewal) = $29.40
> > I could not find the registrar buying rate, but I suppose it should be a
> > lot less
> > OpenSRS resellers pay $75 (1st year) and $ 50.00 for transfer, renewal
> > As for .fr, we could find a lot of them at 20 euros ( average public
> > price), I went to the nic.fr page to see the price that the registrars
> > could purchase http://www.afnic.fr/afnic/adhesion/prestataire/tarifs In
> > 2005, buying price is 9 euros = $11.65
> > There is also a one time set up fee (depend of contract) 1450 euros or
425
> > euros
> > Tucows resellers pay $25 (year)
> > We know that Tucows must do profit and it's a good thing for both of us.
> > But it appears that for these 2 domains margin is excessive. If our
buying
> > rates are more expansive than the public rates, how Tucows can sell these
> > european domains ? And - more important - what about our credibility vs
> > competitors or end users ?
> >
> > D.Laine
> > Webmaster
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