> There's only 2800 registrars In practical terms there's a lot fewer. Look through the list of registrars [1], ideally sorted by the contact email, and you'll

> There's only 2800 registrars In practical terms there's a lot fewer. Look through the list of registrars [1], ideally sorted by the contact email, and you'll find that many of them are "sock puppets" of a larger operation: * 1,251 registrars are operated by NameBright, including "DropCatch.com 345 LLC" through "DropCatch.com 1545 LLC" (numbered sequentially). * 479 are operated by Network Solutions under many different names. * 300 are operated by Gname and are named, rather uncreatively, "Gname 001 Inc" through "Gname 300 Inc". There are a lot of other small-scale duplicates, like about fifty run by LogicBoxes or twenty by DotMedia, but the three mentioned above make up nearly three quarters of the total alone. I'd be surprised if there were much more than two or three hundred distinct companies involved in the domain registration industry. [1]: https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars