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While I admire your enthusiasm, the last thing an experienced web developer wants is a "brand new" domain registrar. The primary aspect you want in your registr

by seldo 15y ago

While I admire your enthusiasm, the last thing an experienced web developer wants is a "brand new" domain registrar. The primary aspect you want in your registrar is longevity, because transferring domains is a huge pain in the neck. GoDaddy gets business just by virtue of having been around for so long, thus indicating it's not going to be another disaster like RegisterFly. Obviously everybody has to start somewhere, but if you're brand new, focus on increasing consumer confidence through things like service guarantees and offering long-term contracts.

badger_com 15y ago
We have been using the term "brand new" as a way to show that we're trying to approach the domain industry a bit differently than our 5-10 year old competitors. I think the biggest example is that we've open sourced our javascript frontend (http://github.com/badger/frontend http://github.com/badger/frontend) which exclusively uses our API (http://badger.github.com/ http://badger.github.com/). We think the domain industry is ripe for disruption and we think we have the right team and ideas to execute. As you pointed out though we don't have a proven track record. Unfortunately, there's not a lot we can do about that. Service guarantees and long-term contracts might seem nice on the surface but wouldn't really change much if we went out of business. I believe the quote goes something like: "The only two things guaranteed in life are death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)" That said, we're a startup in San Francisco with an office and employees and have been around for over a year. We previously were a domain reseller (rhinonames.com) but have spent the last six months becoming ICANN accredited and building badger.com. We think we can build the best registrar around and we're here to stay.
- pork 15y ago
  That's very enthusiastic and I applaud it, but could you perhaps provide some more substance beyond an open source frontend. How can we use the API? What benefits do you think exposing an API would provide? What are the capabilities of your API, etc.?

by seldo 15y ago

badger_com 15y ago

We have been using the term "brand new" as a way to show that we're trying to approach the domain industry a bit differently than our 5-10 year old competitors. I think the biggest example is that we've open sourced our javascript frontend (http://github.com/badger/frontend http://github.com/badger/frontend) which exclusively uses our API (http://badger.github.com/ http://badger.github.com/). We think the domain industry is ripe for disruption and we think we have the right team and ideas to execute. As you pointed out though we don't have a proven track record. Unfortunately, there's not a lot we can do about that. Service guarantees and long-term contracts might seem nice on the surface but wouldn't really change much if we went out of business. I believe the quote goes something like: "The only two things guaranteed in life are death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)" That said, we're a startup in San Francisco with an office and employees and have been around for over a year. We previously were a domain reseller (rhinonames.com) but have spent the last six months becoming ICANN accredited and building badger.com. We think we can build the best registrar around and we're here to stay.

pork 15y ago
That's very enthusiastic and I applaud it, but could you perhaps provide some more substance beyond an open source frontend. How can we use the API? What benefits do you think exposing an API would provide? What are the capabilities of your API, etc.?