RE: [registrars] personalnames.com opens at a pricepoint of $14.95

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@godaddy.com>]

You're right. I just checked and it doesn't start until February 15th.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Hall [mailto:rob@momentous.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:42 PM
To: tim@godaddy.com; Registrars Mail List
Subject: RE: [registrars] personalnames.com opens at a pricepoint of $14.95

Actually, it isn't yet.  That price decrease hasn't come into effect yet.  I believe it does sometime later this month.

 

I suspect GNR wanted to wait to reduce their price until all of the landrush domains from last year's initial push had to be renewed. 

 

Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Ruiz [mailto:tim@godaddy.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:40 PM
To: Rob Hall; Registrars Mail List
Subject: RE: [registrars] personalnames.com opens at a pricepoint of $14.95

Rob,

 

GNR sent out a notice on 1/20 about reduced pricing. The price of an email/domain combo for 1yr is now only $7.00.

 

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Rob Hall
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:25 AM
To: Registrars Mail List
Subject: [registrars] personalnames.com opens at a pricepoint of $14.95

I see that PersonalNames.com just opened their site, and are offering the dual registration of both email and domain name for $ 14.95 per year.  They drop down to $10.99 per year if you buy multiple years (which is currently below cost).

 

So much for the GNR horseshit over the last year about "its a premium product", "it will support a premium price".

 

And so much for GNR claiming they are only using their new registrar to "test different marketing styles".  I guess they need money desperately, so they are starting with "lets sell them at a loss, because we make up for it in volume" type of business model.

 

Sigh.

 

Rob.