Reglikedomain industry desk

Afternic gets ICANN accreditation

Oh, how far we’ve come…

Domain name aftermarket Afternic just received accreditation as a registrar from ICANN. Those who’ve been in the domain business for a long time remember when Afternic originally applied for accreditation prior to being snapped up by Register.com (and later sold again). Originally, ICANN didn’t want to offer accreditation to the exchange since it was enabling people to make profits on domain names and sell them in the aftermarket.

But that was then, and this is now. Hopefully Afternic will use its accreditation for more than just offering registration services. For example:

1. Enhancing security at the exchange by taking ownership of domains as the registrar.
2. Verifying Whois changes. (Something I think both Afternic and Sedo ought to do better).

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