Is there a setup fee for openSRS? I want to sign up with them :)

Hello,

There is no setup fee. All you have to do is fund your account. If you want to be able to register domains right away with their interface you have to fund your account with $500 if you don't need it that fast you have to fund your account with $250 once you have everything setup.

Andrew

If I go with the $250, how long does it take to start selling domains?

OpenSRS takes about 7-10 days if you fund you account for 250 dollars and put all the information that is required on your website and fax all their documents they request to them.

To be honest with you I would look into a Enom reseller account as you will be paying $10 per domain that is your cost, as an Enom Reseller can offer it to you @ 8.95 or less per domain with a very small setup fee

Just wanted to pass this on before you decide with OpenSRS. OpenSRS isnt bad to work with just that you have to have funds in the account and the fact that they are not willing to drop their rates on the domains no matter how many you sell, which will prevent you from keeping up with the competition.

Tom

How much is enoms setup fee?

Each reseller can set their own setup fee as it is not set by Enom

NiteHawk:

Thanks for the SPAM via PM. I already use OpenSRS though.

Originally posted by Andyc
NiteHawk:

Thanks for the SPAM via PM. I already use OpenSRS though.

LOL, sry bout that. NiteHawk ment to send that PM to me :)

hehe

I pay under $7 per reg. Have instant setup, control panels and loads of other things. I use

http://www.onlinenic.com

I was just wondering, is the $250 / $500 only first time for openSRS, or every month or when you credit your account has to be in that amount? what if I only sell 5 domain 1 month and I don't finish my $500, what happens then?

Thanx,

Mike.

the $500 is like a deposit into your bank account. it stays there until you have exhausted it. However you may need to keep it at a certain level in order to be able to keep selling, for sure above $0. Someone else can probaly verify that as I don't use SRS

You may check out OpenSRS' own site for VERY DETAILED info, like:

http://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/payment

Originally posted by MrSand
I was just wondering, is the $250 / $500 only first time for openSRS, or every month or when you credit your account has to be in that amount? what if I only sell 5 domain 1 month and I don't finish my $500, what happens then?

Thanx,

Mike.

You can just do the $250 to start with, BUT you MUST REFILL WITH THE $250 whenever you run out!

I know that with others you can refill for less and in fact with enom you don't even have to refill with $100 depending on your account that you have.

they are not willing to drop their rates on the domains no matter how many you sell

This is not true.

http://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/faq/sales_faq#q10

Gordon

Originally posted by GordonH


This is not true.

http://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/faq/sales_faq#q10

Gordon

Yeah and when I contacted them they stated that if I sold 5,000 domains per month they will drop the price to $9 per domain .. woah big savings there..Enom is below that at entry state.

Anyhow this is all just my opinion, I dont have anything against OpenSRS they have a nice setup, but going with them for someone new in a competitive market might not be the best choice in my opinion.

Tom

OK
I have signed an NDC so I cant comment in detail.

On the issue of Enom v OpenSRS I have an account with both.
I use Enom for .ws/.cc/.bz/.nu.
I find their system more complex and slower but it does work and
probably if I started off now I would tend towards using them more.

Perhaps you can answer a question?

If you put the customer as the billing contact do they get a renewal notice directly from Enom and become Enom's customer?

I always put us as billing contact for Enom domains to be on the safe side.

Gordon

To be honest with you GordonH I just started with Enom due to the fact of OpenSRS not willing to reduce fees for domain registeration and in this competitive market it was hard to gain customers. But I have always just put myself in as the billing person on domains that I registered, and billed the clients directly

Tom

Thanks
Thats what I do with Enom, but with OpenSRS, the registrant goes in as the billing contact and gets a renewal notice from us but generated through OpenSRS.
This means that we are responsible for the billing of renewals
and OpenSRS has no claim on the customer.

Its the biggest difference between OpenSRS and the other registrars.

Gordon

>NiteHawk: ... I just started with Enom due to the fact of OpenSRS not willing to reduce fees for domain registeration and in this competitive market it was hard to gain customers ...

Competition doesn't just mean price. OpenSRS' operation model and customer/technical support is way much better than either GoDaddy or eNom. Do you really think that a client would decide which registrar to go SOLELY on a couple of dollars?

We use both companies and Opensrs is really the superior product. We have used both registrars to transfer domains, register domains, etc... and Opensrs is a better system. I say this because I have had 2 relatively major problems with Enom.

1) I tried to register a domain, went through the purchasing and everything, then received an email saying the domain is not available. 3 days later the domain shows up in our account, and we already told the client that the domain was registered by someone else (mind you we registered the domain 10 minutes after the order came through), so they had us register another domain for them. (Big Blunder, no one at enom could explain why this happened.)

2) Domain transfer, the domain contact in the whois never received any email about their domain being transferred, then 5 days later the domain is in our account manager. (Safety Implications)

-Steven