On: Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

[clarry]

> that's easily removed by social engineering the registrar.

I decided to eliminate that one by becoming my own registrar. And that's one less man in the middle siphoning money off of me.

[josefresco → clarry]

That seems like an expensive and time consuming solution, unless you have many, many domains.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-become-an-ICA...

[newscracker → clarry]

Quite interesting. How did you do that and what did it take (cost, time, effort)? NearlyFreeSpeech.net started off on this a couple of years ago, and it seems like this is a very costly proposition (something like $80K for accreditation?) that also takes a lot of time.

[clarry → newscracker]

The trick is to forgo ICANN scam and go with a ccTLD. With TRAFICOM (ex FICORA), it was a matter of filling a form. There could have been a small nominal fee but if there was, it must have been very low (under 100 eur).

[thiht → clarry]

How's that even possible? I cannot imagine how you could convince a registry to do this. Maybe a gTLD registry?

[clarry → thiht]

https://www.traficom.fi/en/services/registration-registrar

[eyegor → clarry]

How does that work?