The introduction to this series gave a quick overview of the registry providers who came to our Registry Speed Dating event at the recent ICANN meeting in Paris. Most new top-level domain applicants will want to avoid the very expensive task of building their own registry system. Instead, they’ll outsource. This series profiles the registry providers competing for that outsourced business.

Keep in mind that these registry providers had five minutes only to answer some rapid-fire questions, and what we have is a quick tabulation of the results. All of the registry providers were well-prepared and (from what they told us) have strong offerings.

Caveats: There is no single perfect registry provider. Each have different strengths and serve different markets. This guide is to help you match your needs to the right registry provider. The answers below are from the representatives of the registry providers, and not an independent evaluation. Also keep in mind that this is draft information; registries may change their policies.

Now let’s have a look at them one by one, in the order they presented to us. At the end of this series, I’ll put together a downloadable PDF which will serve as a comparison chart.

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First up: VeriSign

I suspect that at least some of the registry providers will read through this series and take note of comments, so fire away.

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Tags: VeriSign, VRSN, new gTLD, new TLD, new top-level domains, Sarah Langstone, Jennifer Gore, ICANN, domain registry

Posted by Antony in: Domains, Guide to new TLDs