Originally posted by whiteknight
I see that there are many eNom resellers in this forum. I think many of you would be interested in a new company called www.wildwestdomains.com (ICANN accredited)
Your suggestion being that eNom resellers would dump eNom and run over to Wildwest? Based on what I see on that site? Really? Is
that what you're really saying?
Originally posted by whiteknight
API is great.
It's not an "API." It's a hosted reseller interface. There's a helluva difference.
And when looking at said interface as implemented at
http://www.actnowdomains.com, am I the only one who notices frighteningly similar design elements as we see on Godaddy reseller sites?
And, look... the reseller interface is hosted on secureserver.net which uses jomax.net as DNS -- both of which are owned by Godaddy.
And, look...
wildwestdomains.com is, itself, registered at Godaddy. Why's that? Wildwest is, itself, ICANN-approved. Why does it need Godaddy?
Originally posted by whiteknight
Prices are lower then eNom without making any deposit!
eNom requires no "deposit," either. Rather, it's a purchase of a certain number of domains. That's what "reseller" means. That's the very essence of the definition of a reseller: One who buys inventory at wholesale, puts it on his own shelves, and then resells it at some higher price so as to make a profit. Since domains are intangible, the not-yet-registered, but clearly paid-for domains sit in the reseller's account -- the closest thing an intangible like a domain name can get to a "shelf," in this case.
Prices lower than eNom's? Wildwest's lowest price is $7.05/year. eNom's lowest price -- that it's willing to talk about publicly, as least -- is $6.95... and some of its oldest and largest resellers are doing a little bit better than that. Or are you saying that Wildwest offers lower prices for smaller blocks of domains; that, for example, at Wildwest one needn't purchase $495 worth of domains in order to get the $8.95 price like they need to do at eNom; that for a $495 bulk purchase, the Wildwest price is lower than $8.95? Is that it? If so, then I wish you had been clear about that.
And back to the "no deposit" issue...
Are you saying that Wildwest requires no bulk purchase; that it gives its $7.05 price to everyone? If so, then why does Wildwest's site use the phrase "...rates as low as $7.05." A phrase like that suggests that under certain circumstances the rate would be higher. If there's no deposit, what would those circumstances be?
Originally posted by whiteknight
...after talking with their support (who will support reseller's customers as well as the reseller themselves)...
eNom supports
anyone who has a domain registered in the eNom system, no matter how it got there. eNom's tech support doesn't care if they support their own end-user cusomters, or those of their resellers.
Originally posted by whiteknight
they're going to give eNom (who I currently use) a run for their money!!!
C'mon... gimme a break! How do you come to that conclusion?
Where on Wildwest's site, or on any of its resellers' sites, do we see even a mention of the features that the end-user domain registrant may enjoy? Or have you forgotten about them? Remember them? The customers... without whom it doesn't make a whit of difference
whose API you're using? Doesn't it bother you that neither on Wildwest's main site nor on its... as you call it... its "API" (which is not what it is, by the way) does it so much as mention a single end-user feature? How, then, can you possibly come to such a preposterous conclusion?
Did you actually do a point-by-point, apples to apples comparison of end-user features before you decided to waltz in here and declare that Wildwest was going to be able to give eNom a run for it's money?
And, in a million years, do you honestly believe that Wildwest's godawful reseller interface could possibly compare with eNom's new PDQ interface? Really?
Originally posted by whiteknight
Just looking for the best deal for my counterparts.
Uh, huh. That's
got to be your motivation.
So do you really think an eNom reseller in his right mind is going to make the decision to switch based on the sparse information we see on Wildwest's web site? Compare the wealth of information you can get on eNom's site -- if you're willing to take the time to read it -- with the smattering of information that leaves you yearning for more on Wildwest's site. Do you not see a night and day difference?
Do us a favor, will ya? Don't look for "the best deal" for us any more, okay? Your standards are too low.
Originally posted by whiteknight
I haven't used them, but...
Clearly. Perhaps next time you should before coming here and asserting that a registrar like Wildwest can even
begin to compare with eNom.
Edited a misspelling on 7/17/2002
