LogicBoxes announced today that it is launching the Domainer Accreditation Program, a new initiative targeted exclusively at large domain name portfolio owners.
The program is designed to educate domain buyers of the many risk mitigation benefits that an ICANN accreditation has to offer them, and subsequently helping to obtain and manage their own ICANN accredited registrar.
“We’ve recently seen a surge of enquiries for our ICANN accreditation consultancy services from large domainers,” says Bhavin Turakhia, CEO of LogicBoxes. “There are several compelling reasons why domainers look at obtaining an ICANN accreditation. Apart from the benefit of eliminating the ‘middle man’ (the registrar) between them and their portfolios, the Accreditation also provides domainers with an unbeatable level of flexibility to portfolio management and even opens up newer profit centers for them.”
The program will help to dispel the myth that attaining ICANN accreditation is expensive, which Bhavin says is not the case.
However, he does admit that most domain buyers typically do not have the expertise required to obtain or maintain an ICANN accreditation and handle registrar-related issues like compliance, UDRPs, and WDRPs, so they need someone to aid them with the process and provide them with an end-to-end solution that requires minimal maintenance.
Having consulted over 65 ICANN accredited registrars, LogicBoxes says it has the experience and resources to offer the complete turn-key solution.
The Domainer Accreditation Program is designed for large portfolio holders, and provides a dedicated account manager, compliance assistance, technical consulting and registrar software.
More importantly, the program ensures that domain buyers are not burdened with regulatory hassles and other accreditation management activities.
LogicBoxes provides ICANN accreditation consultancy services and turn-key solutions for domain registrars, registries and web hosts, including domain registration, Windows/Linux Web hosting, email, SSL, and website builder.
There should be rules in place by which the current ICANN accredited domain name registrars should abide – ICANN SHOULD monitor those company’s and if they do NOT abide by those rules they should be heavily fined and by the 3rd breach those Company’s should lose the ICANN accreditation for 4 years (at the very least).
If ICANN does not focus on quality but instead on quantity (ONLY money to pay for the ICANN accreditation) then the Internet will be full of Idiotic Company’s that will do wrong to many people.
This is already happening to many domain name owners that have lost their domain names by those so called ICANN accredited domain name registrars.
So ICANN SHOULD GO FOR QUALITY and NOT Quantity
Damir
There are rules by which each registrar has to operate.
What Logicboxes offers is for you to own your own registrar, to protect your domains and not depend on a third party registrar.
It will suit well for large portfolio owners only. Logicboxes prime aim is to become a world leading parking provider with his skenzo.com. Mostly all of of the domainers know that parking is a very profitable business. So their target will be large portfolio owners only. They work to build their business. I think they will soon enter domain brokerage also as my http://www.collisiondomains.com. They are financially strong enough to build their business. now they made some tie up with a venture capitalist also
Sounds like a great idea, but would only be viable for large portfolio owners. Will this result in more competition which will bring prices down?
Premium
Your right it Is only viable for large domain portfolios.
However I do not see it bringing prices down because the majority of the registrar fees goes to Verisign under their contract
Along with portfolio size, it’s also the portfolio value that Domainers need to consider while thinking of an ICANN Accreditation.
If the Domainer has some pretty valuable domains (worth a lot) – then it makes business sense to obtain an ICANN Accreditation – which would only cost about US$ 6,000 per year to maintain. This would give his domains the ultimate security.
There are other (and might we add pretty compelling) reasons why we’re seeing an increasing number of domainers are now looking at obtaining an ICANN Accreditation. You can read about these at our micro-site -> Why Accreditation – http://domainer.logicboxes.com/why-accreditation.
We’re also providing Domainers with a Free ICANN Accreditation Feasibility Analysis at at our micro-site -> Get Started – http://domainer.logicboxes.com/get-started