Hey There,

We got a message from eNom today stating that our cost for .WS domains was increasing effective June 1, 2002.

Can any other resellers (for other registrars) confirm this news?

Originally posted by jmcmike
Can any other resellers (for other registrars) confirm this news?
So, you're questioning if it's true -- that the .WS registry is actually raising its price, I mean?

I'm not challenging you or meaning to sound critical. I got the same message today. But it never occurred to me to wonder if I was being lied to by eNom. I've found them to be pretty forthright in the past.

Hmm. Interesting. It is odd that we've not heard it independently from any other source, isn't it? You'd think a price increase by the .WS registry that affects everyone who sells the .WS TLD would be news that's floating around out there, wouldn't you?

I suppose it's possible that it's not a price increase to all .WS registrars; that maybe it's just a price increase that the .WS registry is doing to eNom. Maybe eNom cut a helluva deal initially -- something unique and lower than almost anyone else -- and the folks at the .WS registry have since thought better of it.

That's possible, right?

As you can see, I'm trying to think the best of the folks at eNom. I know and like them and I cannot believe their price increase claim would be ruse. It's just my opinion, of course, but I think we should give eNom the benefit of the doubt and presume the possibility that it's a price increase that is hitting only eNom.

Of course, with my luck, two seconds after I make this posting, I'll find an article or press release somewhere that I missed and I'll see that everyone knows the details of the .WS increase except jmcmike and me.

:homer:

In addition to responding to jmcmike's question, above, are there any other non-eNom resellers out there who will share what they've been paying for the .WS TLD up to this point? If we can get some non-eNom resellers to post their answers to that question here, then I suspect we might learn that most resellers out there have been paying not-insignificantly more for the .WS TLD than eNom resellers have been up to this point. If so, and if eNom is the only registrar suffering a .WS price increase, then maybe it's just an adjustment by the .WS registry to bring eNom in line with what other registrars have been charged all along.

Just a theory.

as long as it stays for 15$ per year, ok be me

I don't think a lot of people are renewing the .WS names. I've seen $35 figure thrown around somewhere else. Maybe raising the price will help some of the losses expected. .US rulez baby!

Originally posted by clemzonguy
I don't think a lot of people are renewing the .WS names. I actually like the WS tld. WS = Web Site. Sounds a lot better than .biz, and some of the other wannabees. US is OK, but it's too restricting. Why define your site as US?

Originally posted by Abu Mami
I actually like the WS tld. WS = Web Site. Sounds a lot better than .biz, and some of the other wannabees. US is OK, but it's too restricting. Why define your site as US?
or WS = World Site, sound also good :cool:

Originally posted by DesElms

So, you're questioning if it's true -- that the .WS registry is actually raising its price, I mean?
I am not out to bash eNom. I too find them truthful in their dealings with me. However, the fact remains that they did not give the answer to the question, "Is this registry wide?"

I know I could (and will) ask them the same question, but I'm still interested in whether the .WS registry has done this to more than one registrar.

Originally posted by jmcmike
I am not out to bash eNom. I too find them truthful in their dealings with me. However, the fact remains that they did not give the answer to the question, "Is this registry wide?"

I know I could (and will) ask them the same question, but I'm still interested in whether the .WS registry has done this to more than one registrar.
I never thought (or said) that you were bashing eNom. I'm sure they won't think so, either. They can't deny that you've asked good questions, and you had a valid reason for raising them. Nothing wrong with that.

So here's the scoop...

I've just heard from Alan Ezeir (http://nic.ws/about.html) from Global Domains International (http://nic.ws/index.html), the .WS registry. He confirms that the wholesale price increase is not just for eNom and is, in fact, industry-wide... effective June 1st, just as eNom told us. So the cost of the .WS tld is going up for everyone. eNom may simply be the first registrar to inform its resellers, which may be why we seem to be the first to be discussing it anywhere. Who knows.

And I'll add this, just FYI: Ezeir also told me what the wholesale price will be, i.e., what eNom will be paying as of June 1st. And based on my knowledge of that, and what eNom is saying it's raising it's price to for its resellers, I'm here to tell ya' that eNom's not making very darned much on the proposition. Not surprisingly, eNom's wholesale price to its resellers on the .WS tld has been and clearly will remain excellent -- among the lowest in the industry, from my observation.

Whew! Sure glad we got that issue resolved, eh?

I actually like the WS tld. WS = Web Site. Sounds a lot better than .biz, and some of the other wannabees. US is OK, but it's too restricting. Why define your site as US?
Actually WS is a Country code for Western Samoa!
So why define your site as a .WS?

Originally posted by Michael M
Actually WS is a Country code for Western Samoa!
So why define your site as a .WS?
Read this page (http://nic.ws/about.html), then look at this web site (http://website.ws/) to see the .WS tld marketed in a manner consistent with that which those you read about on the first page had in mind.