[Hidden-tech] Domain Registrars

[Rich Roth]

We've used opensrs (also known as TuCows) for quite a while, maybe 20 years.

We had over 2,000 domains before sold off a major client and started to 
retire -- we still have 2-300.

The client moved this domains to Dyn.com, which looks like Oracle bought 
them.

Opensrs as a pretty decent pricing - you can see at: 
https://opensrs.com/services/domains/domain-pricing/
and they have just introduced a pricing that gives better discounts for 
volume.
These are all reseller pricing - their retail group is hover.com

Their interface is good for basic operations, or you can use their API 
to your own domain management,
which is what I did -- they also provide DNS, forwarding and other 
related services.
Their interface has batch changes or you can program bulk changes - like 
DNS transitions.
I scripted moving all our domains (1500 at that time) to their DNS.

Rich

On 3/21/2018 1:06 PM, Michael Muller wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Montague WebWorks uses GoDaddy for its registrar, and we now hold 394 
> domain names there.
>
> While for the most part I enjoy their Domain Manager, there is always 
> room for improvements... as well as possible savings.
>
> GoDaddy has a bulk-buying club, of sorts. You pay something like $125 
> a year to get reduced pricing, so most domains cost about $9.20 
> instead of $15. We charge our customers only $10/year to manage their 
> domains for them, which saves us TONS of time tracking down and 
> assisting them in managing their domains at whatever registrar they 
> initially bought itif they forgot to renew or their card expired. I'm 
> more than happy to make only 80c per year on these domainsfor this reason.
>
> I don't relish the thought of transferring that many domain names to 
> another registrar, but I'm curious who any of you use if you host 
> websites and manage domains for your customers.
>
> My questions are:
>
>   * Who do you useas a registrar, if not GoDaddy?
>   * Do they have a white-label service, and if so, what does it cost?
>   * How much do you pay per domain, on average?
>   * How good is their management platform? Can you make
>     multiple-domain changes in a single action?
>   * Any other good tips.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mik
>
>
>
> -- 
> Mik Muller, president
> Montague WebWorks
> 413-320-5336
> http://MontagueWebWorks.com
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