[#XWM-610908]: Re: [enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

Rui,

that seems to sum it up for me.

But at the end of the day any registrar needs to assess what kind of 
community they serves: DIY geeks? "Please, no bother at all" customers?

If ten years ago, all that every and every service provider has told all 
their customers would have been: "You have connectivity, we registered 
your domain for you, here is some HD space on our server: take it, play 
with it and be happy!", I am 100% sure that the industry would look 
quite different - if it could be called an idustry at all.

Back then as well as today assembling various components to bundles that 
look nice and attractive to your kind of customer (see above) is key for 
a successful registrar's offering.

Unfortunately such an offering could not be seen too often so far, IMHO.

Best,

	Carsten

Rui Ribeiro wrote:
> 2009/6/30 Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de>:
>> * Antoin Verschuren:
>>
>>> And for lager numberblocks there are different prices. One
>>> delegation of 10.000 numbers will cost 2500,-, discounts negotiable,
>>> so effectively this is 0,25 Euro per number.
>> Does this mean that subscribers have to pay per extension/subdomain
>> and are not free to create all the subdomains they want?
> 
> That is a great question. What kind of services are provided by registrars?
> 
> - just number delegation towards the client DNS server? (the user can
> make any update, at any time, of any information. User must be savy)
> - DNS hosting for any kind of registers? (the user accesses through a
> web interface to it's own profile, and ads any kind of information in
> type, and in number. Less savy, but has to have some knowledge)
> - DNS hosting for predefined registers? (the user acesses through a
> web interface to it's own profile, and selects from predefined
> registers)
> - DNS hosting for limited predefined registers? (as above, but with a
> limited number of registers. How many?)
> - DNS hosting limited for SIP? (as above, but only allowing SIP
> records. Maybe even accepting only URI putting all the information
> "around" them automaticly)
> 
> Do you have others?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rui Ribeiro
> racribeiro at gmail.com