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Amazon Becomes Domain Name Registrar
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."
Who cares? This is probably the most uninteresting news I've read on here in a while. Amazon has the money to do whatever the hell they want (including ridiculous patents) so why is this news?
Confucious says: Man who runs behind car gets exhausted.
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will people stop saying "amazon will patent domain registrations"?
... 4 times after that doesn't help to make it any funnier.
the joke is dead.
it died after the first time it was posted. repeating it in a different form 3
Do you have proof, or are you just a troll.
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So a line with *any* profit margin at all will be a valuable thing to have come the next stockholder's meeting.
If only the could have one of those... Amazon just sold $1.43 billion in merchandise last Xmas, and couldn't get 0.25% of that in true profits...
This means that as far as businesses are concerned, your savings account is a more successful business model than "man of the year" Bezos' Amazon.
You obviously weren't very high up in the department. A registrar still has to pay Verisign for the privilege of being able to register and keep registered .com and .net TLDs.
Yes, but it's only $6 (might be different for different TLDs, I'm not sure).
You also have to pay an entrance fee to become accredited to register domains.
I'm sure they figure they can make it back over time. Besides, this probably sounds good on Wall Street.
Yes, it's probably less money than doing it through another company. But not free.
Agreed.
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I currently have one domain registered with Network Solutions, who are, of course eeeeeeevil, and when it comes up for expiration I'll go somewhere else.
I have another registered with Gandi. Although Gandi is cheap and doesn't send spam, that's about all I can say for them. I started trying yesterday to get a connection to their server so I could update a DNS entry to point to my new webhost. Tried around the clock at various times (including getting up at 1 a.m. my time), only got through after many many frustrating attempts. (Oh yeah, I e-mailed their support address, and got a reply saying that support was unavailable for an indefinite time.)
So who's good? I've heard good things about EasyDNS/opensrs/tucows, but they're not particularly cheap. Although I'm not a fan of Amazon's behavior (patents, labor relations,...), I'd be interested to see if they turn out to be a good registrar.
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Yeah, but Amazon.com's stock actually went up during 2002 from 14.48 to 18.89. There's a 33% return on investment!
See, Amazon isn't a blue chip that decares its profits and then hands it out as dividends. Instead, it invests its profits from profitable lines back into expanding the business. The expansions so far have been mostly sucessful, so they contribute to the value of the company which gets measured in the stock price.
Bottom-line profit is an important metric, but it isn't the only one.
Has there ever been a documented problem with Amazon's credit card database? I have never heard of one.
Or you can just take it out from the library! Ultimate try-before-you-buy. The Amazon quality rating system is the best for picking out the best books on a given subject, when you can then proceed to borrow from the library.
These days *anyone* can become a registrar, it seems.
Yes. That's what "deregulation" means.
they're just putting out a couple of thousand bucks to become registrars themselves then they get to snap up as many newly-expired domain names as they want, for free.
Actually, no. An ICANN accredited registrar pays the ICANN fees as you mentioned, but does not get names for free. Each domain name comes at a cost of approximately $6US (for COM/NET/ORG). I know this because I work at an ICANN accredited registrar. It's cheap for the cybersquatters, but not free.
- j