A few questions...

1) Is OpenSRS ONLY Tucows?


2) With Tucows, you can become a reseller with their $95 startup fee (which allows me to sell domains, email accounts, & GeoTrust Digital Certificates). Does that mean that the $10 price they quote for reselling domains (.biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, .org, .us) is what the reseller pays? Does anyone know if it gets cheaper if you buy in bulk from them? Does it get cheaper if you register for multiple years at a time?

3) I'm afraid of enom and godaddy because some people complain of spamming problems - especially if they try to steal away by biggest customers...who wants that?? In addition, OpenSRS seems to be the most customizable and bare-bones approach. Is this the case? Is $10/year pretty good for reselling?

(I'm prepared for the "enom is great" smacks in the face from all the enom resellers here) ;)

Yes it is what the reseller pays. As for the others, why not ask them - I'm sure they'd know ;)

OpenSRS is indeed TUCOWS.

You pay a flat $10 per domain - no credit card nonsense or "revenue sharing". $10 is a high wholsesale cost however. But OpenSRS are very honest and relyable. I have never had any major problems with them. You can totally customise everything. Either using the client cgi code or by direct API calls yourself.

You do however have to implement some sort of payment gateway.

I have never had an email take longer than once business day to be answered and the answer is normally helpfull.

But... 10$ is a high price for a wholesale domain.

You won't be able to sell to the price-sensitive customers but if you build your business around value I'm sure you can...

Have your fax machine ready too - you have to fax a fair bit of crap to them...

Cheers,

Will.

Will,
Thanks much for the comments.
I think it will be the way I will go, since I plan on having a service-oriented business (based around computer consulting and web design) that offers domain registration, web hosting, and other related services as a convenience to customers who want to have all this stuff in one place.

I think that the higher price is worth it considering you don't have to worry about spamming and pyramid crap. However, are there any other companies that are similar to Tucows but have cheaper prices?

Doubt it, but remember if you buy in volume, you will definetly recieve a discount rate per volume bought. So in theory it will be cheaper than the $10/year they offer you ;).

Originally posted by GlobalPN
Doubt it, but remember if you buy in volume, you will definetly recieve a discount rate per volume bought. So in theory it will be cheaper than the $10/year they offer you ;).

So you can buy in bulk from Tucows?

eNom is great.

Originally posted by DevilDude
eNom is great.
:rolleyes:

...anyway.....

Tucows states that if you have a high volume of domains sold with them you recieve a reduction in price from their $10/year amount. I cannot say what it is since I myself do not know. Maybe some Tucows members will help me out :D

I do not believe anyone offers the same product as Tucows - they are fairly unique. It isn't very good if you want a business to be setup in 3min, but excellent if you are prodiving a quality service. Subscribe to the discuss-list@opensrs.org ("to subscribe to any of these lists, visit http://resellers.tucows.com/lists)
if you like ask for comments and you will probably have lots of people email you offlist with their experiances (some will of course point out the high price).

You can get discounts if you start selling heaps of domains, I would email the sales department for more info on that.

Tucows is one of the largest registrars too, and it's publically traded so it ain't going anywhere.

Cheers,

Will.