Tucows Opens Domain Name Registry

Tucows.com is still working on the site, but their Open Shared Registration System should be ready to go by November15. There's an API to proxy through their accredited server into the domain name database. Anyone can write their own client software based on theirs, which is GPLed. Their take is $13/year, easily the lowest yet: the idea is for others to customize their own client software, add value, resell domains, and start the price war.

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Hurry, register your domains BEFORE this comes out

[weave]

There's a big downside to cheap registration services. At least at $70 a pop, it kind of tempers most people from going nuts. Now that we can see really cheap domain registrations, anything that makes sense will be gone in no time.

Scumbags like mailbank.com have already registered over 10,000 surnames, just so they can sell mail aliases and web aliases back to people. Imagine, now they'll be able to afford to get every surname in the phone directory, if not already taken.

All I know is, I'm damn glad I grabed *MY* surname already, cause after this is done, the only available domain names left with be crap like.

• wqprjhqwmn.com
• wxttvnmyttp.org
• xzwscyoow.net