Comments on: Thoughts on the Domain Name Price Increases http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases Happenings at OpenSRS. Talk of Domain Names, Email and SSL Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: About Tucows » Tucows Blog > Blog Archive » Registrar Reputation and Trust http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/#comment-572 About Tucows » Tucows Blog > Blog Archive » Registrar Reputation and Trust Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:26:21 +0000 http://opensrs.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=67&Itemid=149#comment-572 <p>[...] Ross Rader, our resident policy guy (officially the General Manager of Retail Services) has worked tirelessly in the areas of WHOIS Privacy reform, to name but one example. Elliot Noss, our President and CEO, was one of the people at the forefront of the fight against Registry price increases last year. [...]</p> [...] Ross Rader, our resident policy guy (officially the General Manager of Retail Services) has worked tirelessly in the areas of WHOIS Privacy reform, to name but one example. Elliot Noss, our President and CEO, was one of the people at the forefront of the fight against Registry price increases last year. [...]

]]> By: Barry L. Salter http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/#comment-571 Barry L. Salter Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:49:28 +0000 http://opensrs.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=67&Itemid=149#comment-571 I'm not bothered by the rise in cost, I'm in business to make money as is GoDaddy, OpenSRS or anyone else who sells a product or service. I am disturbed by GoDaddy's retail price under cutting the ____ out of OpenSRS wholesale prices BUT I have proven none the less that even with my paying wholesale a higher price than Godaddy's retail, and my charging $20 a generic domain, I am NOT in competition with GoDaddy. OpenSRS provides for me (excluding that short hick up when it was hard to reach a tech) a solid foundation to which I can offer my clients a "MUCH MUCH HIGHER" level of customer support and reliance to which I can say is WORTH paying more for. I have not one domain with GoDaddy even if they are $3 a domain less and with the number of domains I have, would be a substantial difference in cost.. Further more, they are here in Phoenix, not 5 miles from me, and I still will not buy. I switch to OpenSRS after NSI messed up a customer's domain and argued that it was set correctly (for 3 months!)(I have this domain, I have saved it), and I lost that client over it. At that point in time I registered OpenSRS and have stayed with, finding that with every issue, Frank, or any of the other guys, are always happy to help.. (I do agree on the invoicing statements however, and the archived and deleted domain costs should all come up together so that it is more easily tracked.. listed separate if you must but on the same page). But an extra $100 in registration costs isn't going to move me if $3 a domain doesn't do it. One last note, in my opinion, NSI is like an old man who's teeth are falling out and GoDaddy is like a balloon getting ready to burst. I believe as my opinion only, that NSI is slowly losing their grip as everyone including us are sucking up their losses, and when GoDaddy pops, I'll bring a boat to pick up clients from drowning. My opinion only. Barry L. Salter Hosting Master Internet Hear (as in Listening) to Serve you! Tm +1.602.413.6197 I’m not bothered by the rise in cost, I’m in business to make money as is GoDaddy, OpenSRS or anyone else who sells a product or service. I am disturbed by GoDaddy’s retail price under cutting the ____ out of OpenSRS wholesale prices BUT I have proven none the less that even with my paying wholesale a higher price than Godaddy’s retail, and my charging $20 a generic domain, I am NOT in competition with GoDaddy. OpenSRS provides for me (excluding that short hick up when it was hard to reach a tech) a solid foundation to which I can offer my clients a “MUCH MUCH HIGHER” level of customer support and reliance to which I can say is WORTH paying more for.

I have not one domain with GoDaddy even if they are $3 a domain less and with the number of domains I have, would be a substantial difference in cost.. Further more, they are here in Phoenix, not 5 miles from me, and I still will not buy. I switch to OpenSRS after NSI messed up a customer’s domain and argued that it was set correctly (for 3 months!)(I have this domain, I have saved it), and I lost that client over it. At that point in time I registered OpenSRS and have stayed with, finding that with every issue, Frank, or any of the other guys, are always happy to help..

(I do agree on the invoicing statements however, and the archived and deleted domain costs should all come up together so that it is more easily tracked.. listed separate if you must but on the same page). But an extra $100 in registration costs isn’t going to move me if $3 a domain doesn’t do it.

One last note, in my opinion, NSI is like an old man who’s teeth are falling out and GoDaddy is like a balloon getting ready to burst. I believe as my opinion only, that NSI is slowly losing their grip as everyone including us are sucking up their losses, and when GoDaddy pops, I’ll bring a boat to pick up clients from drowning. My opinion only.

Barry L. Salter
Hosting Master Internet
Hear (as in Listening) to Serve you! Tm
+1.602.413.6197

]]> By: Ken Kaprielian http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/#comment-570 Ken Kaprielian Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:47:49 +0000 http://opensrs.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=67&Itemid=149#comment-570 Elliot, Keep up the good work. I am sorry I have not been able to follow this more closely but my thoughts and feeling go with you as special interest groups work real hard to turn this whole system into nothing more than a cash raking process. That Verisign and stewardship can appear in the same sentence makes me sick. Elliot,

Keep up the good work. I am sorry I have not been able to follow this more closely but my thoughts and feeling go with you as special interest groups work real hard to turn this whole system into nothing more than a cash raking process. That Verisign and stewardship can appear in the same sentence makes me sick.

]]> By: James Koole http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/#comment-566 James Koole Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:51:49 +0000 http://opensrs.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=67&Itemid=149#comment-566 Daniel, You can find out more about the IPC <a href="http://www.ipconstituency.org/" rel="nofollow">at their website</a>. A list of IPC members can be found <a href="http://www.ipconstituency.org/membership.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. As for the ISPC, their website is <a href="http://www.ispcp.info/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I haven't been able to find a list of members but we'll keep looking. Thanks for the comment. Daniel,

You can find out more about the IPC at their website. A list of IPC members can be found here.

As for the ISPC, their website is here. I haven’t been able to find a list of members but we’ll keep looking. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: scott http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/#comment-569 scott Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:19:28 +0000 http://opensrs.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=67&Itemid=149#comment-569 I understand your frustration at this price increase, but is it really necessary to make our accounts with tucows so confusing to read? Those who want to keep track of the charges separately certainly can do so without adding so many columns to our monthly statements? and if you want to give us a before and after shot, please use the same accounts for both shots. I understand your frustration at this price increase, but is it really necessary to make our accounts with tucows so confusing to read?
Those who want to keep track of the charges separately certainly can do so without adding so many columns to our monthly statements?

and if you want to give us a before and after shot, please use the same accounts for both shots.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/#comment-568 Daniel Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:00:40 +0000 http://opensrs.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=67&Itemid=149#comment-568 Can you point to a ISPC membership list and a IPC membership list. After reading you article, I have not been able to find the membership lists. Can you point to a ISPC membership list and a IPC membership list.
After reading you article, I have not been able to find the membership lists.

]]> By: Rich http://www.opensrs.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-the-domain-name-price-increases/#comment-567 Rich Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:54:23 +0000 http://opensrs.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=67&Itemid=149#comment-567 I cannot agree more. As resellers (contracting parties), we have constantly had our hands tied. We have been the ones who have been most heavily impacted by the mass mailing practices of other unnamed parties to coerce customers to transfer their domains away, compete with sites offering ultra low pricing, and fight with the misinformation spewed to our direct customers. And to raise prices by 4%? What is the sense in that? Are expenses going UP within ICANN? Do they just want to squeeze out more of the 'little guys'? It hurts.. and it makes selling to customers that much more difficult. I cannot agree more. As resellers (contracting parties), we have constantly had our hands tied. We have been the ones who have been most heavily impacted by the mass mailing practices of other unnamed parties to coerce customers to transfer their domains away, compete with sites offering ultra low pricing, and fight with the misinformation spewed to our direct customers.

And to raise prices by 4%? What is the sense in that? Are expenses going UP within ICANN? Do they just want to squeeze out more of the ‘little guys’?

It hurts.. and it makes selling to customers that much more difficult.

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