However, domain pricing has cost me clients for domains – mostly to godaddy who markets their own hosting heavily. When their retail is below my wholesale it’s a tough competitive position.

For example, I have a two clients with over 200 domain names each who went to godaddy strictly for price. I was not even close to geting their business even at 0% margin.

Still – I stay with OpenSRS for about 8 years now because they don’t try to market my hosting clients away – a true reseller environment.

New branding has been an excellent decision, and logo is terrific!

We are with you, OpenSRS.

Perhaps it has been available elsewhere in the clear. When I google:
“Pricing per domain year” tucows
I get a page listed as
http://services.tucows.com/services/domains/pricing.php

When I go to the internetarchive to look at the old pricing page, it’s not accessible.

I also tried googling: “domain pricing” tucows
and
“domain pricing” opensrs

Both returned no relevant results.

If it was publically available it was well hidden, Eh?

When I signed up (I think in 2000, maybe late 1999) the pricing wasn’t readily available without requesting it.

Maybe I missed something for years, but it’s not obvious to me.

From my perspective, I’m loosing domain sales because the reseller cost is significantly higher than godaddy (and others). Being in the hosting business, I already provide email, DNS, and even spam filtering — so those offerings from OpenSRS are of no value to me. On the other hand, the domain business is a huge value to me, but becoming less-so because of competition from godaddy.

Thanks for the comment. Wholesale pricing has in fact been public for ages. New resellers need to know what our pricing is for them to be able to make a decision on whether to use our services, so it’s pretty hard to keep it a secret.

Throwing information that should be for resellers only open to the public isn’t very reseller friendly in my opinion.

Thanks,
-Stephanie

Thanks for the comment. Glad to hear you’ve been with us from day one!

I can assure you we’re paying an enormous amount of attention to the domains business; I like to think that developments like premium domains, our cost-plus billing structure, all the cool stuff now rolled into our management fee and such are examples of Tucows working “heads-down” on the domains business. And we will continue to focus and innovate in the space in the future. :)

Regarding a service that monitors/acquires expiring names — we don’t have anything like that on the roadmap but it’s feedback like yours which helps us decide what to introduce, so we’ll definitely take the input and evaluate the idea.

Thanks again for the comment.

Cheers,

adam

I thought you always still used “OpenSRS” in some fashion ever since, correct?