As in the title, interested to know how hard it is to setup a registrar. I know you have to be accredited by ICANN
Thanks for your reply also.Imo the bigger cost and effort is to make the software for the registrar (except if you use ready to go like whmcs which do not offer many options to users, were not made for this anyway but mainly for hosting and ecommerce).
Software is also a need in order to take the ICANN accreditation.
A good software like this at dynadot, namesilo etc with the many bulk options, sending emails whole day for orders and expirations, manage safely transfers etc i assume, without to know, that has very big gost to make and need a technical team to make corrections every day, add new tlds and options.
Have you already a solution for it?
This is a good start of course.Thanks for your reply also.
Yes we have a very strong technical team who have developed much more complex platforms than this during our time together and have enough experience to produce a registrar platform.
Something like Dynadot etc isn't actually that complex, it's very well engineered, but the tech and frameworks to produce it is not so complicated compared to many other sites.
I appreciated your input Dr Manos.
Yes, dropcatching with a registrar back in the day would have been an excellent way to offset the sometimes fairly meagre profit margins from domains alone.This is a good start of course.
Before many years i had also this plan. Studying all aspects is much more complex that it seems to be, eg at every registry need to write new code in order to communicate with their servers for registrations, renewals etc, also big effort is needed at the registries that have ppremium names with premium pricing at renewals and many other.
Of course i see you already have the software engineering team so you are one step beyond.
The case seems to the business plan for you. At 2023 there are so many choices for investors and simple domain users, so you need to think at what you will be competitive. My criterion is software and pricing for example.
At .com for example have in mind that after fees (to registry and icann) in order to be competitive you have to make profit about $0,3 the most at regs and renewals.
Most modern registrars seem to earn at other sectors and not domains directly, for example web hosting and SSL certificates that have bigger space in price. From domains i can understand that earnings are at increase of fees for example at renewals ater a timeframe that is "pure" profit as registries in 40 days do not ask more fees from registrars.
2 decades before, when i was thinking of this plan, a good reason was the dropcatching/backordering that was in "virgin" staus, you could grab superb names, now with many thousands of accreditated registrars who do this there is no hope. Also i was dreaming for a very good software friendly to users and safe, but there are many now.
Wish you good luck if you will finally decide to do it!!!
Yes, dropcatching with a registrar back in the day would have been an excellent way to offset the sometimes fairly meagre profit margins from domains alone.
And also, yes. The goal of this wouldn't be to register domains as the primary business activity, but it would be another service which is somewhat related. The registrar would just be a vehicle for that.
101%, there are so many things at a domain lifetime and also platform due to thousands of small orders a day that needs to be updated and debugged regularly.Do appreciate your insight, and yes, without an in-house dev team who are competent any endeavour is orders of magnitude harder. Hiring freelancer devs for producing a registrar would be 9/10 times either a case of being fleeced on price fairly severely or a s**tshow in the quality of what's produced.
As in the title, interested to know how hard it is to setup a registrar. I know you have to be accredited by ICANN
Quick answer:As in the title, interested to know how hard it is to setup a registrar. I know you have to be accredited by ICANN