OT: Domain Registrars

[David Aikema]

On May 26, 2002 04:55 pm, Philip J. Koenig wrote:

> The "state of the domain" report doesn't even list namecheap or
> buydomains or their parent companies in their Q1 2002 report. (the
> smallest registrars listed have less than 12 domains registered)
> Unless they're just reselling someone else's service (most commonly
> Tucows), this is ominous.  Namecheap doesn't even run their own DNS
> servers.

Namecheap is an eNom reseller.  Namecheap has been around a fair while and 
eNom, the company they resell for, is currently ranked 8th in market share in 
this report (prediction to make 7th).  The report also lists eNom as the 
second fastest growing registrar (after godaddy)

I was attempting to figure out who buydomains.com was reselling for and 
incidentally I just ran across a message in a mailing list 
(http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0201/0552.html) suggesting that 
buydomains.com has been spamming people.

> For individuals who just want to play around with a domain for
> personal use and it's not critical to them (but price is), the world

As a student, cost ranks fairly high on the list of features that I look for 
in a domain registrar.  I've however made a point that, before committing to 
anything, I attempt to uncover a little bit of background information about 
the companies that I'm dealing with.

David Aikema