I just recieved an e-mail from Snap Names today saying that they will soon offer an API for their back ordering service to their resellers. Judging from that, I don't think they anticipate the WLS to kick in any time soon; if ever. Have I missed something or?
"A Message from SnapNames Vice-president of Business Development
Greetings to our friends and partners among the reseller community!
Here at SnapNames, weââ¬â¢ve focused for some time on our friends among the registries and registrars, all while developing relationships that we hoped would one day be mutually profitable with the real engines of domain sales, the resellers. Now weââ¬â¢d like to better understand how your business works and how we can better work to ensure your own satisfaction ââ¬â and your success.
As you may know, we now offer an API by which our partners can offer all of our current services, as well as upcoming services still in QA, on a private-label basis. Partners would never have to send a customer off their sites, and would book all of the top-line retail-price revenue. We will be able to offer this API to resellers soon, but even then the resellers would of course need to have a relationship with a registrar to fulfill the registrations.
In order to get this API to resellers like you, weââ¬â¢d like to understand a little about you. We would be quite grateful, and better able to help you, if you would please take a moment to answer these simple questions.
1. Who is the registrar that provides you with registration services? (List all if more than one)
2. In what ways are you satisfied or dissatisfied with this registrar?
3. How many new domain names do you sell in COM, NET, and ORG per month, in total (not including incoming transfers)? (For our purposes, a large number is not necessarily better than a smaller one, so please try to be conservative if in doubt).
4. How many in BIZ, INFO, and NAME, respectively?
5. Please check which, if any, of the following services youââ¬â¢d be interested in offering through an API under your own brand:
a. _____Back-ordering for COM, NET, ORG at $30-34.50 wholesale
b. _____WLS (VeriSignââ¬â¢s back-ordering or Wait-Listing Service) for COM, NET at $24+ wholesale
c. _____Back-ordering on BIZ, INFO, and NAME at prices to be determined (cross out or delete TLDs any youââ¬â¢re not interested in)
d. _____Back-ordering on Major ccTLDs. If so, which:______________________
e. _____Whois and nameserver monitoring and notification services at $5 wholesale
f. _____Alerts on domain name availability and back-order/WLS availability leading to purchases of same (free to you
6. If you were ever to become a registrar, would you be interested in using SnapNamesââ¬â¢ quality registrar software if it came with the lowest price in the industry? (We get our value from other relationships with our registrar partners, and so do not need to charge them much for the software itself)
7. If your own registrar(s) (listed in response to question 1) were not planning to offer the API with SnapNames services to you, would you require assistance in finding a registrar who was?
8. Would insider information on the business of the industry be of use to you? For example, if a deleting-name company like LocalWhois or WhoisPilot, or a small registrar were looking for a buyer or a registrar had exciting new offerings for resellers, would you be interested in receiving such business-related updates
9. Please let us know any other comments or suggestions you may have!
You may either type your answers directly onto this survey and fax or email it back to us, or simply write your responses into the survey and fax it to us. Our fax number is (503) 274-9749.
From all of us here at SnapNames, we thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Cameron Powell
SnapNames
"A Message from SnapNames Vice-president of Business Development
Greetings to our friends and partners among the reseller community!
Here at SnapNames, weââ¬â¢ve focused for some time on our friends among the registries and registrars, all while developing relationships that we hoped would one day be mutually profitable with the real engines of domain sales, the resellers. Now weââ¬â¢d like to better understand how your business works and how we can better work to ensure your own satisfaction ââ¬â and your success.
As you may know, we now offer an API by which our partners can offer all of our current services, as well as upcoming services still in QA, on a private-label basis. Partners would never have to send a customer off their sites, and would book all of the top-line retail-price revenue. We will be able to offer this API to resellers soon, but even then the resellers would of course need to have a relationship with a registrar to fulfill the registrations.
In order to get this API to resellers like you, weââ¬â¢d like to understand a little about you. We would be quite grateful, and better able to help you, if you would please take a moment to answer these simple questions.
1. Who is the registrar that provides you with registration services? (List all if more than one)
2. In what ways are you satisfied or dissatisfied with this registrar?
3. How many new domain names do you sell in COM, NET, and ORG per month, in total (not including incoming transfers)? (For our purposes, a large number is not necessarily better than a smaller one, so please try to be conservative if in doubt).
4. How many in BIZ, INFO, and NAME, respectively?
5. Please check which, if any, of the following services youââ¬â¢d be interested in offering through an API under your own brand:
a. _____Back-ordering for COM, NET, ORG at $30-34.50 wholesale
b. _____WLS (VeriSignââ¬â¢s back-ordering or Wait-Listing Service) for COM, NET at $24+ wholesale
c. _____Back-ordering on BIZ, INFO, and NAME at prices to be determined (cross out or delete TLDs any youââ¬â¢re not interested in)
d. _____Back-ordering on Major ccTLDs. If so, which:______________________
e. _____Whois and nameserver monitoring and notification services at $5 wholesale
f. _____Alerts on domain name availability and back-order/WLS availability leading to purchases of same (free to you
6. If you were ever to become a registrar, would you be interested in using SnapNamesââ¬â¢ quality registrar software if it came with the lowest price in the industry? (We get our value from other relationships with our registrar partners, and so do not need to charge them much for the software itself)
7. If your own registrar(s) (listed in response to question 1) were not planning to offer the API with SnapNames services to you, would you require assistance in finding a registrar who was?
8. Would insider information on the business of the industry be of use to you? For example, if a deleting-name company like LocalWhois or WhoisPilot, or a small registrar were looking for a buyer or a registrar had exciting new offerings for resellers, would you be interested in receiving such business-related updates
9. Please let us know any other comments or suggestions you may have!
You may either type your answers directly onto this survey and fax or email it back to us, or simply write your responses into the survey and fax it to us. Our fax number is (503) 274-9749.
From all of us here at SnapNames, we thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Cameron Powell
SnapNames
