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    Cost of a new Registrar

    Hello everyone,
    I am interested in becoming a registrar. I really don't know the cost yet. After done some research in ICANN (icann.org/resources/pages/financials-55-2012-02-25-en), I can only sure that:
    Capital: $100k
    Application fee: $3,5k
    Annual fee: $4k
    Another fee are Variable fee (quarterly) and Transaction-based gTLD fee. But I am not sure what exactly is that, can anyone help me?

    I sure there are some other fee like new register, renew, transfer... Do I need any software do work with ICANN ?

    Anyone have experience in this fields please help.

    Thank you

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    Have you thought about simply going with a reseller account with eNom or such? It's much easier, as you'll have someone to back you up and an established platform where to start learning from.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nikiggm View Post
    Do I need any software do work with ICANN ?
    A popular option is
    https://www.logicboxes.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by asgard View Post
    Have you thought about simply going with a reseller account with eNom or such? It's much easier, as you'll have someone to back you up and an established platform where to start learning from.
    I am not interestered in reseller because the cost will be too high and you cannot set the price you want !

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    Quote Originally Posted by nikiggm View Post
    Another fee are Variable fee (quarterly) and Transaction-based gTLD fee. But I am not sure what exactly is that, can anyone help me?
    Registry fees (transaction-based gTLD fees) vary by gTLD. On a .com for example you would pay $7.85 to the .com registry (Verisign) and $0.18 to ICANN. That's $8.03 per domain before your hardware, software, and other expenses and fees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Techno View Post
    Registry fees (transaction-based gTLD fees) vary by gTLD. On a .com for example you would pay $7.85 to the .com registry (Verisign) and $0.18 to ICANN. That's $8.03 per domain before your hardware, software, and other expenses and fees.
    Thank for the input, can you tell me where to check generic domain fee like $7.85 and ICANN fee? There must be some place public fee register, transfer and review

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    The wholesale price of gtld domains is usually protected and only revealed in the contract between ICANN registry and ICANN registrar.

    I believe normally it is against the terms on the contract to mention the wholesale price as this is commercially sensitive information. That's why you don't see lists of wholesale pricing arond the web.

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    For becoming an ICANN accredited Registrar, costing should be least of your worries. There are various requirements that the Registrars have to meet on daily and annual basis. On top of that, to establish the technical setup, you'll really need to know your way around to run your Registrar setup efficiently.

    As issues arise on a daily basis and without any homework, it takes only a matter of time before the Registrar loses his accreditation. Many plan to start a Registrar business and get ICANN accredited but what they don't realize is that maintaining the accreditation year after year is the difficult part.

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