I saw some enom resellers are offering 7.80+ per name on this board. How much they are prepaying to get that deal?

A few months ago they increased the reseller price from 8.89 to 9.95. (if l'm not mistaken)


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They did however you can prepay for domains to get a lower price than $9/10.

I know that 1-100 is 9.95 each.

Before 1-1000 was 6.95 each but I am not sure now.

I emailed them the other week with the same questions. Here is a portion of the email that answers your question:

Our price to you is $8.95 per domain name when you agree to credit your account for 55 names ($495.00) $7.95 when you credit your account with $3,975.00 (500 domain names), and $6.95 when your account is credited $6,950.00 (1,000 domains).

Seems kinda stupid to pay that much money ahead of time for 1,000 domains when you have to somehow find people to buy them which is much harder as you increase your prices to try to create profit to cover your expenses. Seems a bad idea starting in the hole already.

I'd rather go with DirectI.com and put up with their akward interface instead.

clemzonguy..

No it isn't stupid at all.. basically it means that if you are serious about selling domains as a profitable business you will have some capital and get the benefit of the lower prices..

Believe it or not there are people/companies who invest serious money in their registrar business and have overheads/wages to pay etc and therefore if they are expected to make it worthwhile then they need to be at least marginally profitable..

The costs involved in domain sales are $6 to Verisign [slightly less to Afilias/Neulevel] PLUS the chance of a yearly bite from ICANN which can take the average cost of a domain to around $6.20 ish..

If you then add some costs for operating your business, you can see that there isn't much meat unless you do bulk or high volume sales at the lower prices..

Any industry has a responsibility to try to keep itself intact, while allowing the players to remain competitive.. and the extremes are of course Verisign who are greedy due to the largish overhead they have, down to the desperate new registrars who are probably running at a loss to grab some market share..

I must say I admire the OpenSRS MO.. they are not the cheapest by far, but they provide a high quality, reliable environment and probably do more to keep the domain industry pricing intact than any other registrar/company.. however I choose Enom because they are proving that their own business plan is successful and their prices are cheaper than any with comparable systems..

So.. as with all hosting and related business, 'starting in the hole' is one of the things that any business does at start up, and thankfully the marketplace dictates the haves and have nots..

If you can tolerate the crappier interface to get the lower price for now, then that is a good business decision for you.. hopefully you will get a ****load of sales and grow into a better position..

With our collective luck, ICANN will disband and we'll be buying domains directly from the US Gov.. or maybe they will be free.. that should stuff up a few business models.. :)

Good luck..