How do you become an official registar of domains?

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by toycat, May 9, 2009.

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    Well I don't like the insecurity's of trusting a name registar, So i was wondering if there is an easy way to get your own domain names directly of icann? or whoever owns domain names.

    Thanks.
     
    toycat, May 9, 2009 IP
  2. SOULZRIPPER

    SOULZRIPPER Well-Known Member

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  3. tobycoke

    tobycoke Well-Known Member

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    Royal2000H Active Member

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    What's the benefits of being accredited (on a small scale)?
     
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    ForceBase Peon

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    Hi, Icann requires from you a big deposit, not to mention the administrative, develop and service expenses.
     
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    NeoGen Writer

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    Honestly, there are no financial benefits to be ICANN accredited, if you have a small scale operations.
     
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    enormous Well-Known Member

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    all the post above are true,

    Your best bet if you want to do it yourself is to become a domain reseller with a registrar,

    We use enom.com API Program and took a basic open source script and are coding in enom's api into it as we speak,

    But enom and other registerars offer simplier ways to buy/resell domains directly through them at better rates.

    Hope this helps

    Enormous
     
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  8. toycat

    toycat Well-Known Member

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    read a few of the articles posted above, it seems it costs $65 to save $2 or $3 on domains..

    Also you need $70,000($7,000,000?) to pay the $65
     
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    enormous Well-Known Member

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    Yep its not worth it unless you are selling large volumes of names each month, along with you will need a crap load of capital to get to be a registrar, its really not worth it.
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    Its possible but it come with not cheap price.
    You need to pay upfront fee amounting to $200k before you can be icann accredited domain registrar.
     
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    Getting ICANN accredited has great benefits if you can afford it...Its something which gives you credibility and advantage over millions of other domain reselling and hosting companies but its useless if you are buying domains for yourself...nobody would get ICANN accredited just for himself
     
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    lol.. of course hes asking this because he wants to set up a hosting company and domain registration and compete godaddy, hostgator and all.

    or would you, toycat?
     
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