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

["Chris Bledsoe" <cbledsoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually they don't require you to host a mirror of the tucows network...
they now offer a $2/per year rebate if you do mirror the network... but it
is not required.

Thanks,
Chris Bledsoe
cbledsoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Titan Networks LLC
http://www.titannetworks.com
Toll free: (877) 838-1321


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Was Names4Ever, now OpenSRS


> 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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