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Curious if this will impact AWS pricing, as I believe Gandi is one of the main providers behind Route 53.
by cachvico 3y ago
Curious if this will impact AWS pricing, as I believe Gandi is one of the main providers behind Route 53.
- nilespotter 3y agoI would have assumed Amazon did that themselves? Amazon Registrar, Inc. is ICANN accredited.
- bragr 3y agoIt seems they have a relationship per AWS's docs [1] for handling certain TLDs. In particular this calls out using Gandi to verify transfer of .*.uk domains. I'd be very surprised, however, if that that deal is tied to consumer pricing. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-transfer-to-route-53.html#domain-transfer-to-route-53-change-registrar-settings https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/do...
- CydeWeys 3y agoYes but it's a lot of work to integrate with literally over a hundred different TLD registries to provide full spectrum domain registration coverage. And it's not just technically difficult; there's lots of work to do from a legal/biz dev standpoint as well. Much easier to integrate with a reseller and have them do a lot of that for you. Then you can only worry about the big ones (e.g. Verisign for .com), and maybe slowly onboard to additional ones over time.
- CydeWeys 3y agoI assume that pricing will be covered by a contract between Amazon and Gandi, that is not affected by this recent announcement. And that if Gandi increases prices on Amazon a lot in the future when the contract comes up for renewal, Amazon would simply switch to a different reseller.