Selecting a Quality Domain Registrar

Finding a quality domain registrar is an important step to setting up a new website. Registrars come and go, so finding one that has the best price is not always the best option. Domain registrars pay yearly for your domain, so when they offer discounts bases on multiyear registrations it is wise to know how good the company is before putting your money on the table. If you would like to know more about the domain registration process then read the information provided below.

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An end-user cannot directly register and manage their domain name information with ICANN. A designated registrar must be chosen. Prior to 1999, the only .com registrar was NSI, but the approval of the SRS opened up the opportunity for other companies to be designated as registrars.

Each ICANN-accredited registrar must pay a fixed fee of US$4,000 plus a per-registrar variable fee totaling US$3.8 million divided among all registrars.

Only one designated registrar may modify or delete information about a domain name. The competition that the SRS created enables end users to choose from many registrars offering different services at varying prices. It is not unusual for an end user to wish to switch registrars. Such transfers are governed by specific domain name transfer policies.

When a registrar registers a .com domain name for the end-user, it must pay a maximum annual fee of US$6.86 to VeriSign and a US$0.20 administration fee to ICANN. VeriSign is the registry manager for .com gTLD. 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 2008, the cost generally ranges from a low of about $7.50 per year to about $35 per year. The maximum period of registration of a domain name is generally 10 years.

Some registrars are offering longer periods of up to one hundred years, 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. Some packages of services, such as web hosting, include the domain registration in the total package pricing.

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Domain Registration
Plan	.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us	.cn, .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn	.name	.eu	.mobi	.com.tw, .org.tw, .idv.tw	.asia	.com.au, .net.au ($AUD)	.asn.au ($AUD)	.id.au ($AUD)	.org.au ($AUD)
1 yr	$25.00	$25.00	$25.00	$14.95/yr	$25.00	$45.00	$25.00	-	-	-	-
2 yrs	$25.00/yr	-	-	-	$25.00/yr	-	$25.00/yr2	$45.95/2yr	$37.45/2yr	$28.95/2yr	$19.95/2yr
3 yrs	$23.75/yr	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5 yrs	$21.25/yr	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
10 yrs	$18.75/yr	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Domain Renewals
Plan	.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us	.name	.eu	.mobi	.com.tw, .org.tw, .idv.tw	.com .au .net .au ($AUD)	.asn.au ($AUD)	.id.au ($AUD)	.org.au ($AUD)
1 yr	$25.00	$25.00	$14.95/yr	$25.00	$45.00	-	-	-	-
2 yrs	$25.00/yr	-	-	$25.00/yr	-	$45.95/2yr	$37.45/2yr	$28.95/2yr	$19.95/2yr
5 yrs	$21.25/yr	-	-	$21.25/yr	-	-	-	-	-
9 yrs	$18.75/yr	-	-	$18.75/yr	-	-	-	-	-
10 yrs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Domain Transfers
Plan	.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us	.name	.mobi	.com.tw, .org.tw, .idv.tw	.com.au, .net.au ($AUD)	.asn.au ($AUD)	.id.au ($AUD)	.org.au ($AUD)
1 yr	$25.00	$25.00	$25.00	$45.00	-	-	-	-
2 yrs	-	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
5 yrs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9 yrs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
10 yrs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

• All fees are NON-REFUNDABLE.
• Prices are subject to change without notice
• Prices listed in US dollars, unless otherwise specified.
• An exchange rate is applied to Australian prices.
• .ASIA Landrush Applications require a minumum 2 year initial registration term.