https://www.dropcatch.com/ check out how that business model works. Theo On Fri, Sep 25, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
Dear John,
thank you for this very interesting contribution. I wondered about one paragraph:
On 25/09/2020 04:34, John McCormac wrote:
The number of US registrars, according to the May 2020 ICANN reports is 1,931. The second place goes to China with 63. The majority of ICANN registars are drop catchers. They exist only to register deleting domain names and are not retail registrars. (The table for the breakdowns by country/COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/MOBI/ASIA are on the front page of HosterStats.)
Could you please explain this? They register deleted domain names - for themselves? - and are *not* retail registrars? I thought the function of a registrar is to sell to domain name registrants either directly or through agents? Kindest regards,
Olivier
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