Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Running a Web Hosting Business : Domain Management

[Chris]

I would like any suggestions on domain management, the best places to register domains for clients that buy webhosting. I have looked into bulkregister.com, they seem alright, except clients do not have much access to there domain, and on top of that, $12 a domain is not exsactly the best deal around.

I also looked at OpenSRS, but they are way to costly to startup, I bet they would be decent, but they are to costly for me to get into.

Any suggestions? places? Opensrs are 10$ a domain I believe, and I am not sure how many domains I will end up registering, but I would not estimate more than 10-20 domains a month max for now.

[MSW]

If you can get the funds, OpenSRS is the best way to go. People like the fact that they can modify their own records.

ALthough we are with bulkregister, I can understand how you feel. We need to modify the record when people want to make changes. There is a company started by the good people at Jumpline called openegg.com that allows you to make changes to bulkregister accounts in a similar fashion as openSRS. There is a fee for it, though, and at the time I looked at it there wasn't much interest. I think I may have to revisit it.

[Chris]

It almost looks like there is not enough competition out there for this kind of business ;p

Maybe once some other companies start domain registration for ISP's prices will go down.

[SI-Chris]

Dotster.com has an affiliate program that works pretty good and is definitely no hassle and no startup costs.

[ksstudio]

OpenSRS is $250 pre-paid deposit as a startup. We are with OpenSRS

Registerfly.com $9.95 per domain, just provide registration, we cannot be their reseller.

[Justin S]

http://www.dotregistrar.com

http://www.enom.com

http://www.itsyourdomain.com

Those are all good companies...