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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