On 1/30/10 8:01 PM, John Levine wrote:

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We are doing hosting and We are interested in doing Domain registra Could you provide more info?

Although Eric is correct that you can become an ICANN accredited registrar, that's probably not what you want to do.

Agree, but I'm not going to tell him (or anyone) what they should want. For all I know he sees some present value entering the highly concentrated CNO industry, or some future value as a registrar with operational clue in the 20+ inventory market, when the number of inventories increases substantially.

Many registrars have reseller programs which allow you to sell domain registrations that are actually handled by the registrar whose service you are reselling. If you just want to let your customers register the domains they use in their hosted web sites, that's much, much easier.

I resell Tucows (www.opensrs.com) and am happy with them, but you should look at several large registrars and choose the one that best meets your needs.

Distinct from the question of member (of CORE) vs reseller (of any registrar offering a reseller model), members having a voice in the policy and management of the registrar, resellers not, is the issue of shared fate. A reseller shares fate with all other resellers of a particular registrar. Eric