I doubt there is enough profit in just domain registration for any
registrar. The volumes required to fund that as a solitary business would be
substantial. Intaserve have never approached any client of mine and on one
occasion when we had some technical issues one of their support staff rang
my client directly as my technical person. They did that with my knowledge
and the client didn't know they were from Intaserve. Complex dns issue
resolved and no headache for me. Smart registrars know they have a lot to
lose even appearing to try and steal resellers clients.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Stark [mailto:ronstark§snapsite.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 23 June 2003 3:12 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: RE: [DNS] More on the issue of reseller / registrar
relationship


It was never on my radar that resellers create their _own_ registrar.  I
think that doing so would considerably weaken any collective reseller
position, and simply create the converse of the competitor scenario of which
I've complained.

Sean, if that's what you meant when you said that it's unworkable, then I'm
with you.

My interest is primarily in redressing resellers' currently weak position.
In terms of auDA policy, resellers don't even exist.   Consequently we have
no protection through auDA whatsoever, other than in the realm of domain
names.  Our vulnerability . however, is peripheral to that.

I believe that there are likely to be enough registrars who would agree not
to compete in our territory, so we needn't compete in theirs.  We need to
help those "independents" to succeed - without them we're even more
vulnerable.

Ron Stark



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Archer [mailto:rha§juggernaut.com.au]
>Sent: Monday, 23 June 2003 2:08 PM
>To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>Subject: RE: [DNS] More on the issue of reseller / registrar
>relationship
>
>
>At 13:55 +1000 23/6/03, Sean Finn wrote:
>
>>That idea, in my opinion, is not sound.
>>
>>Its great in theory, but wont work in practice. :)
>
>I agree that the idea would be difficult to put into practice,
>however I feel it is worthy of further discussion.
>
>Generally these sort of concepts wither and die of their own
>accord. Or sometimes an existing commercial provider picks up
>the ball and runs with it. We'll see how this one turns out.
>
> ...R.
>
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