Where to Register a Domain  ## Metadata - Author: [[Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats]] - Full Title: Where to Register a Domain - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/5ef9ea3a-a764-4cb0-94fd-32ecde058b56 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - Episode AI notes 1. When purchasing a domain name, be aware of bait and switch pricing where some registrars advertise low initial prices but have high renewal fees. 2. To become a domain registrar, one must meet accreditation requirements and pay a fee to ICAN, the organization responsible for managing the DNS system and determining top-level domains. 3. Registrars need to reach agreements with owners of specific top-level domains in order to offer those domain names. ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/episode-takeaways/41bd117e-30c7-4e10-a341-b43234b8adfe)) - How to Become a Storefront Selling Domains GoDaddy used to be the sleaziest domain name provider, bombarding users with unwanted offers. However, becoming a domain registrar is not as complicated as one might think. You just need to meet accreditation requirements and pay $3,500 to ICANN. ICANN is responsible for managing the DNS system and determining which top-level domains are available. Some registrars don't offer certain TLDs because they couldn't reach agreements with the owners. For example, dot tech is controlled by a specific company, and anyone who wants to sell dot tech domains must be approved as a reseller by them. Transcript: Scott Tolinski To be a bigger problem because there used to be less places to get a domain name and they used to be all sleazier i mean i remember go daddy being obviously the sleaziest of the sleazy in Terms of both marketing but also like you have to click no thanks to eight different offers. It's like, would you like a back scratch with this? Ten thousand dollars. Like, no, thanks. I don't want that. You just have to keep clicking no until you get to the thing. And that's what I always told people when you're registering a domain. All right, you're going to do it here, but just say no to absolutely everything that it tries to sell you on until you get to the real checkup. Wes Bos Yeah. A lot of the ones I looked into, or not a lot of them, but they will say, oh, it's $20 to register this domain name. And then there's a tiny little asterisk that says renews at three times the price. So some of them are like a couple bucks more. It will renew at instead of you pay $ and then it renews that eight 50, which is not a big deal, but specifically go daddy there. Dot coms were like, Oh, register it for $4, which is by far the cheapest you can get a dot com for anywhere. And then it says renews that 22 bucks a year. And they, they count on people just being like, all right, well, I'll, I'll move it when I'm ready'm ready and then and then the renewal comes around you're like ah pay the man and i don't Scott Tolinski Want to deal with this right now that's exactly what they do um i i actually was like really interested about this because i always see anytime domain stuff comes up on twitter people Are like well i saw somebody saying this is the biggest ripoff ever. You're buying something that doesn't even exist before you buy it. And I was like, well, I wonder how that whole process works of how do you become a storefront selling domains, right? How does that even, how does that even happen? And it turns out it's actually, I don't know, theoretically, it's not that intense. So you basically just have to have the you have to meet the accreditation requirements. You have to become a you have to basically show that you have the technical expertise and financial stability to be able to become a domain registrar. And then you have to give them three thousand five hundred dollars. And then is the Internet Corporation for Assigned and numbers. The I can, um, you have to give the I can $3,500 and they get to just say, all right, yeah, you, you can be a registrar or not. And then you get to then work on your actual technical backend for that service. But for the most part, you're applying to be able to sell these domains and you have to prove to them that you are, um, to meet that accreditation before moving on. And ICANN, if you've ever heard of ICANN, you'll see ICANN all over these domains, websites or anything like that. ICANN is the company that's in charge of basically the entire DNS system and ensuring that domain names are unique, but also which TLDs get added, which top level domains even exist Who gets access to them. So I can as the big, big boss here. Wes Bos A couple of years ago, whenever they opened up the ability, like, you know how we have like dot anything anymore. So there are companies that own dot. Like I'm the big one is donut, donut mediaut Media or Donut Registration or whatever. So they own like.house. And I'm just going to pick random ones right here..restaurant and.studio. And the reason why sometimes these registrars don't offer all the TLDs is because they couldn't reach an agreement with whoever owns that. Like.tech is another one..tech was a sponsor of ours for a long time. Big fan of the.tech domain names. They have control over.tech, right? And anybody who wants to sell a.tech, they have to have a meeting and shake hands with those people and be approved as like a reseller for those specific domain names. Scott Tolinski Yeah. ([Time 0:06:52](https://share.snipd.com/snip/35ddafbf-eb6d-4acc-9141-baa56970ebdb))