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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. umm ok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    will people stop saying "amazon will patent domain registrations"?

    the joke is dead.

    it died after the first time it was posted. repeating it in a different form 3 ... 4 times after that doesn't help to make it any funnier.

  2. who's a good registrar? by bcrowell · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So who is a good registrar these days?

    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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