Anyone here running a domain registrar business?

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by ThePhysicist • 2 years ago

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Is anyone here an ICANN-accredited domain registrar? How's your experience, how much does it cost you to run this business apart from the yearly ICANN fees?

randompeach3• 2 years ago

Depends on the volume. But it’s mostly under the 80k required capital.

There are even some open source implementations for the backends.

Most expensive points are the required employees and the signup fees (and prepaid) for other registry’s like .xyz

randompeach3• 2 years ago

DNS via cloudns for example is around 10ct per Zone per Month via there DDoD Protected package.

Email Infrastructure (for renewal etc.) can be acquired over different services like postmark.

Validation of contact data can be expensive too. However maybe something like nominatim could do the trick.

Another thing is infrastructure for Whois/RDAP.

Then you need standard things like Whois privacy (there is a document by icann for requirements).

randompeach3• 2 years ago

I would guess that 8-10k per year without the icann / tld fees, is a good starting point.

Anyone here running a domain registrar business?

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