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From memory: It's relatively hard to become one as you need a big enough domain portfolio to apply for one.
This may help: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/accreditation-2012-02-25-en
Uhm, noob here dunno what's a "domain portfolio"?
That is in case if you want to become ICANN Accredited registrar.
He can become domain reseller with less resources.
I mean you have to have a number of domains (clients or your own).
Just thinking where could I get the cost price as a reseller? Do I need a "very good domain portfolio"?
It's a bit off topic, but I always asked myself if the domain registrars have to pay fees for creating/transfer/extend domains to some kind of organization or if they ask the customer for money because of the work they have with managing the domains?
You can search Tucows, Enom or resellerclub.com for domain prices and information about reselling programs.
maybe this site will help http://www.logicboxes.com
Well in case of .eu tld you just have to pay 5k euro to eurid and you become accredited registrar. Here is more info. http://www.eurid.eu/en/registrars/become-eu-registrar
Yeah, they do. There's a small fee to ICANN, the nonprofit organization that oversees the whole domain name system, and then a larger fee to the registry (not the same as registrar) organization that operates the specific TLD under ICANN contract.
So for .com you have the universal ICANN fee of $.18 and a .com-specific Verisign registry fee of $7.85, for a base cost of $8.03 (doesn't matter if it's a new registration or a renewal).
Take into consideration the overhead and labor costs registrars have to deal with (payment processing fees, rent, staff, etc.) and you see why most registrars charge a few dollars more than that.
wonder if owning a few hundred domains , this might be beneficial in any way .. anyone wanna explore a joint venture ?
thanx all
This is the fees system for .it registrar, quoted from http://nic.it