discussion What is your view on being a direct accredited ICANN and Verisign registrar vs a worry-free reseller business?

[Helmuts]

Do we have reps of ICANN domain registrars here who are happy sharing their experience?

I own a rather small-ish, though, established and good reputation, hosting company HostMaria. We are currently reselling domains (via 20i system, and they are opensrs resellers) and for a long time I have been thinking of becoming an accredited registrar for the TLDs we offer, and few others.

What is your view on being a direct accredited ICANN and Verisign registrar vs a worry-free reseller business?

.. I will be starting with becoming a registrar for a few ccTLDs first (these do not require a registrar to have ICANN accreditations) + plan to use Realtime Register as a backend for our accreditations. .. and eventually (when ready) will move all our user domains to our Realtime Register account.

 

[GBMdomains]

Do we have reps of ICANN domain registrars here who are happy sharing their experience?

I own a rather small-ish, though, established and good reputation, hosting company HostMaria. We are currently reselling domains (via 20i system, and they are opensrs resellers) and for a long time I have been thinking of becoming an accredited registrar for the TLDs we offer, and few others.

What is your view on being a direct accredited ICANN and Verisign registrar vs a worry-free reseller business?

.. I will be starting with becoming a registrar for a few ccTLDs first (these do not require a registrar to have ICANN accreditations) + plan to use Realtime Register as a backend for our accreditations. .. and eventually (when ready) will move all our user domains to our Realtime Register account.

We are a reseller for Dynadot, it definitely reduces the worry, but I'm not sure it is worry-free!

If there are issues caused by problems on Dynadot's side/API, then we have no control or ability to fix. This has been a slight problem with some TLD's but overall we are very happy working with Dynadot.

We did look into becoming an accredited ICANN registrar, but given we are new to the industry, we wanted to take a smaller step first.

So, yes being a reseller comes with less responsibility and worry in some circumstances, but as the front-end platform that users deal with - it is definitely not worry-free!

 

[Helmuts]

We are a reseller for Dynadot, it definitely reduces the worry, but I'm not sure it is worry-free!

If there are issues caused by problems on Dynadot's side/API, then we have no control or ability to fix. This has been a slight problem with some TLD's but overall we are very happy working with Dynadot.

We did look into becoming an accredited ICANN registrar, but given we are new to the industry, we wanted to take a smaller step first.

So, yes being a reseller comes with less responsibility and worry in some circumstances, but as the front-end platform that users deal with - it is definitely not worry-free!

Exactly, in the beginning, it is great to start as a reseller (under a solid brand).

Have you thought about getting a Nominet membership? It’s reasonably priced, and having your own tag allows you to transfer UK domain names to new owners at no additional cost when transferring between tags - a privilege exclusive to tag holders?