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[Toni]

Marco, I have moved 30 names to Internet.Bs already and so far I am very satisfied

I am going to move a few more names next week...

Thanks!

 

[ninjadomain]

Marco, I have moved 30 names to Internet.Bs already and so far I am very satisfied

I am going to move a few more names next week...

Thanks!

Toni, I'd be very happy if you would move them to my Internet.Bs account!

 

[terol]

Anybody received a mail about Internet.bs new prices?

Dot com costs now 8.35 USD there.

http://www.internetbs.net/en/domain-name-registrations/price.html

 

[lothos]

Anybody received a mail about Internet.bs new prices?

Dot com costs now 8.35 USD there.

http://www.internetbs.net/en/domain-name-registrations/price.html

I don't like their new pricing structure. The front page says "starting from" 7.99 / year for a .com but when you click on pricing details you find out that's the price when you register for 10 years.

1 year registration is indeed 8.35 now.

I'll still use them, I really like their control panel. The prices are still competitive, but a lot less clear than it was before.

 

[MarcoRinaudo]

Guys, I think I owe you all some clarifications.

We have started an emailing about 2 weeks ago informing our customers of the end of the .com promotion, in fact .com have been at USD8.35 since a very long while, however we were offering a promotion that was clearly visible in our front page. The promotion is now over and the regular price $8.35 applies.

We had a major issues when we started emailing to our 250'000+ domain holders as some of them flagged our emails as spam simply because our customers are not used to receive email from us, we practically send zero emails besides when explicitly requested by the customer, for example for support.

As such most of the largest email providers started filtering/flagging our emails as spam and in order to prevent a catastrophe we had to suspend the mailing. We know that other competitors are sending bulk emails in a regular basis and we assume we have been penalized by the fact that we do not send those emails in a regular basis. We are now studying an alternative approach to send notifications to our customers by Facebook, Twitter and RSS Feeds. If you have any suggestion, you are more than welcome, we are eager to explore ways to better serve our customers and we would love to be able to send notifications in a regular basis.

Our new pricing structure tends to offer a better price to our customers buying domains for more than 1 year and that’s because when you pay for a single year most of the potential profit is absorbed by the credit card processor as fixed per transaction fee. If you spread the fixed per transaction fee over a larger period (i.e. registering a domain for 2 years or more) we make an economy and we are able to offer .com registrations down to USD7.99/year including ICANN fees for a 10 years period, which I am practically sure it is the best deal you can find around.

We will shortly release a new pricing level reserved to customers paying by wire transfer or Paypal Mass Payment only, the idea is to offer better prices to those customers that are allowing us to minimize our payment processing fees. With such an approach we should be able to offer .com Registrations and Renewal at only USD7.99 from the first year and with no other commitments.

We have noticed that most people have appreciated our new pricing structure as registrations have increased of more than 25% since we released it and we are sorry for not having been able to better communicate with our customers because of the above mentioned spam filtering issue.

PS: if you check our full pricing list, you will notice that in average most if not all of our prices have decreased, again provided you don’t buy for as single year only.

 

[carob]

Hi Marco thanks for the update.

The new price structure is clear on the site, I had no problems with that although I had not got the email.

I look forward to you offering a Masspay option.

Are you going to offer .me domains?

 

[MarcoRinaudo]

Hi Marco thanks for the update.

The new price structure is clear on the site, I had no problems with that although I had not got the email.

I look forward to you offering a Masspay option.

Are you going to offer .me domains?

Thanks Carob.

Are you referring to Paypal Mass Payment or to another processor?

About .me, it is on our TODO priority list, as soon as we finish with current implementation tasks we will focus on .me.

 

[vc]

Guys, I think I owe you all some clarifications.

We have started an emailing about 2 weeks ago informing our customers of the end of the .com promotion, in fact .com have been at USD8.35 since a very long while, however we were offering a promotion that was clearly visible in our front page. The promotion is now over and the regular price $8.35 applies.

We had a major issues when we started emailing to our 250'000+ domain holders as some of them flagged our emails as spam simply because our customers are not used to receive email from us, we practically send zero emails besides when explicitly requested by the customer, for example for support.

As such most of the largest email providers started filtering/flagging our emails as spam and in order to prevent a catastrophe we had to suspend the mailing. We know that other competitors are sending bulk emails in a regular basis and we assume we have been penalized by the fact that we do not send those emails in a regular basis. We are now studying an alternative approach to send notifications to our customers by Facebook, Twitter and RSS Feeds. If you have any suggestion, you are more than welcome, we are eager to explore ways to better serve our customers and we would love to be able to send notifications in a regular basis.

Our new pricing structure tends to offer a better price to our customers buying domains for more than 1 year and that’s because when you pay for a single year most of the potential profit is absorbed by the credit card processor as fixed per transaction fee. If you spread the fixed per transaction fee over a larger period (i.e. registering a domain for 2 years or more) we make an economy and we are able to offer .com registrations down to USD7.99/year including ICANN fees for a 10 years period, which I am practically sure it is the best deal you can find around.

We will shortly release a new pricing level reserved to customers paying by wire transfer or Paypal Mass Payment only, the idea is to offer better prices to those customers that are allowing us to minimize our payment processing fees. With such an approach we should be able to offer .com Registrations and Renewal at only USD7.99 from the first year and with no other commitments.

We have noticed that most people have appreciated our new pricing structure as registrations have increased of more than 25% since we released it and we are sorry for not having been able to better communicate with our customers because of the above mentioned spam filtering issue.

PS: if you check our full pricing list, you will notice that in average most if not all of our prices have decreased, again provided you don’t buy for as single year only.

What about the people that add funds to their accounts. I usually add a few hundred dollars at a time (more than 10 year regs) yet I`m not seeing any transaction-fees-saving passed on to me!

Thanks for the update, btw.

 

[carob]

Are you referring to Paypal Mass Payment or to another processor?

Hello Marco

Yes I did mean Paypay Masspay.

I too wonder if there will be any discount for making advance payments to load your account, another registrar does discount prices if you preload $500 to your account. A good idea imo.

 

[MarcoRinaudo]

Hello Marco

Yes I did mean Paypay Masspay.

I too wonder if there will be any discount for making advance payments to load your account, another registrar does discount prices if you preload $500 to your account. A good idea imo.

yes, we are implementing a new Pricing Level for customers willing to pay by Wire Transfer and Paypal Mass Payment only. Our target is to bring Registrations and Renewals prices down to USD7.99 based on the available balance that you keep under you account and provided it was paid by one of the two above mentioned payment means.

 

[MarcoRinaudo]

We have just added a new Pricing Level for people paying by Wire Transfer or Paypal Mass Payment, prices are extremely low and the only condition to meet is to keep a positive balance of at least $500.

 

[Toni]

We have just added a new Pricing Level for people paying by Wire Transfer or Paypal Mass Payment, prices are extremely low and the only condition to meet is to keep a positive balance of at least $500.

sounds like a fair deal. :tu:

 

[ninjadomain]

Is it no longer possible for $7.99 renewals for .org?

Thanks!

 

[MarcoRinaudo]

Is it no longer possible for $7.99 renewals for .org?

Thanks!

yes it is possible, just check our pricing list. You basically have two options either you renew it for multiple years and the price goes progressively down to USD7.85 or you make a prepayment by Wire or Paypal Mass Payment exceeding USD500 and you will get .org registrations and renewals at only USD7.99 from the first year and down to USD7.85 for multiple years.

You should note that the .org Registry has increased their prices of about 50 cents on the 1st April and we have kept, so far, our .org prices unchanged despite the Registry increase:

http://www.namepros.com/i
ndustry-news/703440-org-and-info-price-increase.html

 

[vc]

We have just added a new Pricing Level for people paying by Wire Transfer or Paypal Mass Payment, prices are extremely low and the only condition to meet is to keep a positive balance of at least $500.

So $500 is unusable if you want to keep `bulk` pricing?

Does not sound too good :<

 

[MarcoRinaudo]

So $500 is unusable if you want to keep `bulk` pricing?

Does not sound too good :<

It is not true that the 500 are not usable, you can use them but you would buy at the regular price, which is already extremely cheap compared to most Registrars. If you want a better price you have to make an extra effort. Please take in account that at the "bulk" pricing we make less than 50 cent gross profit per .com registration and we lose money for transfers, as such I would say that it is fair enough...and don't forget that anyway we have to pay each Registry in advance for your Registrations so basically most of the funds that you are depositing are going straight to Registry balances to cover your future registrations.

 

[carob]

It is not true that the 500 are not usable, you can use them but you would buy at the regular price, which is already extremely cheap compared to most Registrars.

Hi Marco

I want to be sure we've all understood this right, since it is new. Here's an example of how I understand it - is this correct?


Domainer transfers $1000 into Internet.bs account. They are then able to register and renew at the agreed discounted rate.

Once the prepaid balance in the account falls to $499, registrations and renewals are no longer discounted.

By topping up the balance to be above $500, the domainer again gets discount until the balance again goes below $500.

This is not time-limited - the discount is always there as long as the prepaid account balance is over $500.



Is that correct?


BTW to me it looks like for the domainer it is a simple calculation - does keeping a $500 non interest paying deposit at Internet.bs earn me more than it would somewhere else? Depends on the level of discount,and what your other uses of the $500 would be.

 

[MarcoRinaudo]

that's absolutely correct Carob.

 

[pdontthink]

Reviving one more time since this seems like the right place. I used internet.bs for a while and I have to agree that their bulk management tools work great. That's a plus considering one of the biggest names in the business (1and1) doesn't even have bulk tools at all(!!).

However, I found (and still find) their pricing to be far too confusing. They didn't have any information on their site that the crossed-out price was the price you'd be paying for renewals and the cheaper price was just the first year when you transfer to them.

Now they seem to have changed their prices, but it's even MORE confusing. Click to see their full prices and you get this overly complicated chart.... and what in the world is "Wire Only I" supposed to mean? And when you talk about 10 years, is that *per domain* or is it for all domains total? Why can't it be simple and easy to understand like Domain Monster? See: domainmonster.com/domains

And when it was time for renewal, I asked their customer support about the price increase (which took me by surprise since there was no explanation on their site about it at the time), they gave me the same story that MarcoRinaudo has given us about how little margin there is in domain registration. They DID NOT offer to match a better price, unlike their guarantee, which I can't find on their site any more.

If that's as cheap as they feel they can go and still run their business, fair enough, but there are cheaper services out there, so I'm not falling for the sob story.

Unless I am misunderstanding their price structure, looks like it's time for me to move on to Domain Monster.

Upshot - internet.bs has good service, good bulk edit tools, free private whois, one of the cheaper (but not the cheapest) prices that I have been able to find, but confusing (and maybe misleading) price structure.

 

[malcarada]

I have been using InternetBS.net for over two years and I believe I have saved hundreds of dollars since I moved all of my domains from NameCheap to them, the free whois privacy service alone is being charged at $5/$10year at most other registrars.

The interface is easy to use but the ticketing system could improve, they have always replied to me on time and solved my problems but tickets are not archived in your account for future reference, you are supposed to keep the emails, but I am ok with that in exchange for savings $$.