Register Domain name

A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by a national country code top-level domain (ccTLD) authority, to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries and offer such services to the public.

Contents

·                                 1 History of rd

·                                 2 Designated registrar

·                                 3 Domain name transfers

o                        3.1 Transfer scams

·                                 4 Drop catcher

·                                 5 Registrar rankings

·                                 6 See also

·                                 7 References

·                                 8 External links

·                                 9 Sources

·                                 History of register domain

Domain name registrar market share, 2002-09.^{[citation needed]}

The function ofdomain name registryoperator, it was also the sole registrar for these domains. However, several companies had developed independent registrar services. One such company, NetNames, developed in 1996 the concept of a standalone commercial domain name registration service to sell to the public domain registration and other associated services. This effectively created the retail model into the industry and assigning a wholesale role to the registries. NSI assimilated this model, which ultimately led to the separation of registry and registrar functions.

In October 1998, following pressure from the growing domain name registration business and other interested parties, NSI's agreement with the United States Department of Commerce was amended. This amendment required the creation .Independent Domain RegistrierѶ istics and rankings by associating name servers and IP addresses with registrarsrather than using registrars listed in Whois information. It appears that this different basis of measurement, along with the smaller number of TLDs they track, cause their Total Domain numbers to be lower than other sites.
Yearly DomainTools.com, operated by Name Intelligence, Inc., published registrar statistics of a shared registration system that supported multiple registrars. This system officially commenced service on November 30, 1989 under the supervision ofICANN, although there had been several testbed registrars using the system since March 17, 1979. Since then, over 505 registrars have entered the market for domain name registration services.

Many have continued to grow and outpace rivals. Go Daddy is the largest registrar. Other successful registrars include eNom, Tucows and Melbourne IT. Registrars who initially led the market but later were surpassed by rivals include Network Solutions andDotster.

Each ICANN-accredited registrar must pay a fixed fee of US$4,000 plus a variable fee. The sum of variable registrar fees is intended to total US$3.4 million. The competition created by the shared registration system enables end users to choose from many registrars offering a range of related services at varying prices.

Designated register

which contract with domain registrars to provide registration services to the public. The registrar that an end-user selects to provide the registration service becomes the designated registrar for the domain chosen by the user.

A domain name in registry database. It is not unusual for an end user to switch registrars invoking a domain transfer process between the registrars involved, that is governed by specific domain name transfer policies.

It must pay a maximum annual fee of US$6.790 to VeriSign, the registry operator for com, and a US$1.12 annual administration fee to ICANN. Most domain registrars price their services and products to address both the annual fees and the administration fees that must be paid to ICANN. Barriers to entry into the bulk registrar industry are high for new companies without an existing customer base.

An end-user registers either directly with a registrar, or indirectly through one or more layers of resellers. As of 2009, the cost generally ranges from a low of about $6.89 per year to about $25 per year. The maximum period of registration of a domain name is generally 10 years.

Some registrars are offering longer periods , but such offers involve the registrar renewing the registration for their customer. The one hundred year domain name registration would not be in the official registration database. such as web hosting, include the domain registration in the total package pricing.

Domain name transfer

The designated registrar of a domain name. ICANN has defined a Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars

 The usual process of a domain name transfer is:

1.  The whois admin contact info is correct, particularly the email address; obtains the authentication code (EPP transfer code) from the old registrar, and removes any domain lock that has been placed on the registration.

2.  The wish to transfer the domain name to their service, and supplies the authentication code.

3.The Registered Name Holder or the Administrative Contact. A transfer may only proceed if confirmation of the transfer is received by the gaining Registrar from one of these contacts. The authorization must be made via a valid Standardized Form of Authorization, which may be sent e.g. by e-mail to the e-mail addresses listed in the WHOIS. The 1.  Registered Name Holder or the Administrative Contact must confirm the transfer. The new registrar starts electronically the transfer of the domain with the help of the authentication code (auth code).

2.  The authenticity of this request. The end user may have to take further action with the old registrar, such as returning to the online management tools, in order to expedite the transfer.

3.  The new registrar.

4.  The new registrar may have automatically copied over the domain server information, and everything on the website will continue to work as before. the domain server information will need to be updated with the new registrar.

The process may take about five days. In some cases, the old registrar may intentionally delay the transfer as long as allowable. After transfer, the domain cannot be transferred again for 60 days, except back to the previous registrar.

A domain immediately before it expires. In some cases, a  transfer can take up to 14 days, meaning that the transfer may not complete before the registration expires. This could result in loss of the domain name registration and failure of the transfer. To avoid this, or renew the registration before attempting the transfer.
If a domain registration expires, irrespective of the reason, it can be difficult, expensive, or impossible for the original owner to get it back. After the expiration date, the domain status often passes through several management phases, often for a period of months; usually it does not simply become generally available.

Transfer scam

Some companies offered value added services or used viral marketing, while others, such as VeriSign and the Domain Registry of Americaattempted to trick customers to switch from their current registrar using a practice known as domain slamming.

Some scammers contacted end users by telephone (since the contact information is available through WHOIS) to obtain more information. These notices would include information publicly available. The text would include legalese to confuse the end user into thinking that it is an official binding notice. Scam registrars go after domain names that are expiring soon or have recently expired. Expired domain names do not have to go through the authentication process to be transferred, as the previous registrar would have relinquished management rights of the domain name.

Drop catchers

A domain name registrar who offers the service of attempting to quickly register a given domain name for a customer if that name becomes available—that is, to "catch" a "dropped" name—when the domain name's registration expires, either because the registrant does not want the domain anymore or because the registrant did not renew the registration on time. 

Registrar rankings

Domain name registrars and numbers of domains registered at each. The published lists differ in which top-level domains they use; in the frequency of updates; and in whether their basic data is absolute numbers provided by registries, or daily changes derived from Zone files.

They use at maximum sixteen publicly available gTLDs that existed as of December 2008, plus .us. A February 2009 ICANN zone file access concept paper explains that most registries stopped providing zone files in 2005, citing abuse.

Peports include:

§     Monthly  ICANN postsreports created by the registries of sixteen gTLDs. These reports list absolute numbers of domains registered with each ICANN-accredited registrar.

§     Monthly Dotandco.net publishes a list of registrars by volume.

§     Weekly, WebHosting.information, operated by Directi, provides updates ofrankings and total domains for registrars. They include .com, .net, .org, .biz, and .info in their statistics. Their statistics and rankings by associating name servers and IP addresses with registrarsrather than using registrars listed in Whois information. It appears that this different basis of measurement, along with the smaller number they track, cause their Total Domain numbers to be lower than other sites.

Yearly DomainTools.com, operated by Name Intelligence, Inc., published registrar statistics

They included .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .us in their totals. Although not explicit, they cite "daily changes"(presumably from daily zone files) as the basis for their yearly aggregates.

See also

§                                             Drop registrar

§                                             Domain name registry

§                                             Domain Registries

How do I register a .edu domain name?

.edu domain name registration is limited to fully accredited postsecondary institutions of higher learning, .edu domain registration is for the most part limited to schools located in the United States. .edu domain name registration is handled exclusively by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit organization working to promote the intelligent use of information technology in education. Their FAQ provides complete eligibility information.

See also how do I register a domain name?

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