domain registra question
Eric Brunner-Williams
brunner at nic-naa.net
Sat Jan 30 18:35:34 UTC 2010
Deric,
I run a small registrar, and I'm the CTO (confused, tired and
overworked) of a medium sized registrar, which as it happens does
offer the "how to become a registrar" as a consultancy product.
There are a number of procedural steps to take to obtain "ICANN
accreditation".
At that point you have two choices, stop and "rent your threads" to a
back-order specialist, or continue and build or acquire a registrar
"system" capable of passing OT&E at the ICANN accredited registries of
your choice.
The former "rent your threads" used to pay rather handsomely, but with
some 600 shell registrars dividing up the value, the pay out now is
slightly more than what ICANN accreditation costs.
The later "build or buy and operate" is something you could be doing
now, as a reseller of a registrar which has a reseller-model. Not to
advertise, but the medium sized registrar for which I'm the CTO has a
member model, and its members act as registrars, though in fact it is
only the membership association which holds the ICANN accreditation
(though in fact several member companies, such as mine, also hold
ICANN accreditation in their own right).
You have several choices if you "buy". There are "registrar in a can"
vendors. You also have several choices if you "build", every registry
provides an EPP kit for registrars (it is in their self-interest), and
as an added feature (or bug) there are registry-specific "extensions",
different versions of the same kit, and so on.
I am, at the moment, reviewing the refactoring task for a registrar
which supports every ICANN generic and sponsored TLDs, and about a
dozen country-code registries.
For many, the money is in COM/NET/ORG, though in Asia the ASIA product
may be as important.
Then there is the market, yours as a hosting provider, and ICANN's as
a set of contracts creating 20 registries, some of which are of very
limited interest, and 900 registrars, more than 2/3rds of which are
shell registrars, exist.
You'll be paying $0.20 per domain name year to ICANN, and $6
(approximately) to the registries (COM/NET, ORG/INFO, BIZ), and your
margin will be something in excess of that ... or not. Some registrars
sell domains at a loss (actually below registry+ICANN cost, and some
merely below their cost), making their margin on hosting or other
services.
Half of all registration is done by five registrars, it is a highly
concentrated industry, and credit card fraud (charge backs) are a
problem for the registrars who accept credit card data as payment.
Good luck!
Eric
On 1/30/10 9:50 AM, Deric Kwok wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thank you so much
>
> Do we need to setup any application for processing?
>
> I don't understand this whols. ls it serve?
>
> Thank you again
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:22 AM, hutuworm<hutuworm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You may want to check the Registrar Tasks section at
>> http://www.icann.org/en/processes/
>>
>> *Registrar Tasks*
>>
>> - Registrar Accrediation Process<http://www.icann.org/en/processes/registrars/raa-process-17feb09-en.pdf> [PDF,
>> 16K]
>> - Registrar Accreditation Agreement Renewal Process<http://www.icann.org/en/processes/registrars/raa-renewal-process-18feb09-en.pdf> [PDF,
>> 16K]
>> - Assignment Process<http://www.icann.org/en/processes/registrars/assignment-process-17feb09-en.pdf> [PDF,
>> 16K]
>> - Adding a gTLD Appendix<http://www.icann.org/en/processes/registrars/adding-gtld-appendix-17feb09-en.pdf> [PDF,
>> 12K]
>> - ICANN Procedure for Handling Conflicts with Privacy Law<http://www.icann.org/en/processes/icann-procedure-17jan08.htm>
>> - De-Accredited Registrar Transition Procedure<http://www.icann.org/en/processes/registrars/de-accredited-registrar-transition-procedure-01oct08.pdf> [PDF,
>> 121K]
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Deric Kwok<deric.kwok2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> We are doing hosting and
>>>
>>> We are interested in doing Domain registra
>>>
>>> Could you provide more info?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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