Re: [cobalt-users] Was Names4Ever, now OpenSRS

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Burgess wrote:

> I have been an Opensrs reseller since it's availability last December.
> Although there are still some rough spots, overall it is a very good
> organization.  To qualify as an OpenSrs reseller, you need to set-up a
> Tucows mirror so you will need some bandwidth and some disk space for that
> (my Tucows mirrors take well over a million hits a month).

At one time I remember them saying they didn't require that.  Am i
mistaken, or did they change their minds?

It makes absolutely no sense at all to establish yourself as a Tucows
mirror unless you're also a dialup ISP with an awful lot of clients; the
only reason to do it would be to save on upstream bandwidth.

How much traffic does you million plus hits use?  This is a nobrainer
for me; if they require it, there's no way I'm interested, that traffic
is going to call me no small amount; I pay for my traffic.

> They provide you
> with perl CGI's and templates that you use to integrate the domain ordering
> and mangement tools and functions into your web site.  Set-up and testing
> can be a little intimidating for the non-technical, you will pretty much
> need to figure that out without a lot of help from them.  However it is well
> worth the effort.  The registration and domain management interfaces are
> pretty decent "out of the box" so you don't have to customize if you don't
> want.  What I like is that you _can_ customize as much as you want.  I
> understand that integration into an NT/IIS environment can be difficult, so
> Linux on Intel is recommended, but it is open source, so some resellers have
> developed NT and C++ ports and they are quite willing to share them.

Otherwise it all sounds quite good.  What do they have in place for
paying for domains registration?  Do they bill you, or do you have to
have credit card information on file with them, or do you send it with
each order?

Thanks.

Jeff
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