Comments on: Tucows Revives OpenSRS Brand for Resellers

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Tucows Reports Slight Loss in Q3 - The Domain Industry's News Source

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:50:11 +0000

[...] difficult environment, our third quarter revenue growth was driven by the strong performance of our OpenSRS Wholesale Services, primarily domain registration,” said Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows. “A [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:38:25 +0000

OpenSRS is not long for this world. Some resellers were making money from parked domains but OpenSRS is no longer refunding the 50/50 split. Sure they’ll credit your reseller account but don’t ask for a refund of the surplus unless you like getting months of excuses and no payment.

Reseller contract:
“OpenSRS will refund any unused portion of your account balance within two
weeks after receiving a written request.”

Don’t believe it. Since the program began I’ve never been paid on time and now I’m not getting paid at all.

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Tucows to Compete with GoDaddy’s Wild West Domains - The Domain Industry's News Source

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:55:27 +0000

[...] reseller program, dubbed OpenSRS, has traditionally been geared to technically savvy companies wanting to add new services to their offerings. A technical integration was [...]

By: Cowkillaz

Cowkillaz — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:15:00 +0000

“The majority of Tucows’ business comes from its 9,000 resellers.”
What they failed to mention was how many domain names in tucows portfolio came from those same 9,000 resellers customers. Tucows most profitable venture will continue to bring in more profit in the future as the resellers domains expire and tucows moves more domains in to their own portfolio. blech!