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Amazon Becomes Domain Name Registrar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-click-bwahahaha dept.

prostoalex writes "Internet's largest retailer is setting up a domain name registration business. Wall Street Journal recently found out that in December Amazon.com got approved as domain name registrar. According to people from ICANN, the registration included rights for .com, .net,. org, .biz and .info TLDs."

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  1. Check out this report. by Deal-a-Neil · · Score: 4, Informative

    Monthly Report (Oct 2002) for all ICANN registrars. Weird this /. article just made it because I was just reading this report. Shows a LOT of information about registrars, their SLAs, and even their registration statistics. Of course, Netsol, Tucows, Enom, Bulkregister, and MelbourneIT are stompin', but it will be interesting to track Amazon's progress since they're starting from scratch.

  2. Re:Low margin by kfg · · Score: 4, Informative

    A vast improvement, since most of their business is based on a model of working at a negative margin and making it up in volume. You can believe it or not, but I'm not making that up. The orginal idea was to take large losses over a period of years but make it up in volume later on when you had become the biggest player in the field. It's not an umcommon stratagy, and sometimes it even works, but when it doesn't. . .

    That's why they keep adding products to their line, To offset the losses the previous line racked up.

    So a line with *any* profit margin at all will be a valuable thing to have come the next stockholder's meeting.

    KFG

  3. Re:Choosing a Good Registrar by man_ls · · Score: 4, Informative

    godaddy.com

    good service, 9.95/domain/year/1 year, and it goes down to like 6.95/year at 5 years.

  4. Here is a good registrar by ciurana · · Score: 4, Informative
    Anonymous Coward wrote: In a couple months, I've got to re-register my domain names. Does anyone have good info on cheap places to register domains that don't have evil contracting agreements that may endanger my future rights to the domain?

    I manage servers and build software for several companies in the pr0n industry; it seems like most of these guys like registering with www.godaddy.com. I use them all the time with excellent results. I've registered four of my own domains with them so far; some of my friends followed me there. In total I'm managing about 120 domains with no hassles. Go Daddy's domain transfer rate is ~$7.00 and registration for a new domain is about ~$9.00/year. I have nothing but good things to say about them.

    The only problems we had so far were in transferring domains from Verisign/NetSol over to Go Daddy. NetSol makes it almost impossible to happen; it takes two or three iterations before they comply.

    Cheers and good luck,

    E
    --
    http://eugeneciurana.com | http://ciurana.eu
  5. Re:who's a good registrar? by Sarcazmo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Joker.com is good.

  6. Re:who's a good registrar? by denubis · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've done my registration at joker.com -- they're cheap, easy, always up, and send pgp signed e-mail verifcations. What's not to like?

  7. I'll tell you what's not to like by huhmz · · Score: 2, Informative

    When you register on Joker.com you don't own your domain. They do. I used domainsnext.com At least they seem honest.

  8. Re:who's a good registrar? by iso · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're looking for a registrar with good morals, you can't beat OpenSRS. They have VERY strict policies against things like spamming, invalid whois and cyberquatting, and will never get in the way of you transferring your domain out of their system if you're not happy. If you'd like an OpenSRS reseller with good prices, check out web.com who sell domains for $8.99US. If you'd like to check out some others, check out the (randomly generated) OpenSRS referral list.

    - j