Registrar (or registration office)

A reg­is­trar (a domain names reg­is­tra­tion office) is a pri­vate com­pa­ny in charge of admin­is­tra­tive and tech­ni­cal actions of a domain name’s reg­is­tra­tion with the con­cerned reg­istries.

It acts as inter­me­di­ary between the « Reg­is­trant » (Appli­cant) and the « Reg­istry». It is reg­is­tered with dif­fer­ent domain names reg­istries depend­ing on the exten­sions it wish­es to com­mer­cial­ize.

THE REGISTRAR’S ROLE

The reg­is­trar is respon­si­ble for the data­base main­te­nance of the domain names reserved with it, and the database’s update of reg­istries which it rep­re­sents.

The DNS sys­tem func­tion­ing depends on these updates.

A unique Reg­is­trar is rec­om­mend­ed to facil­i­tate the domain names’ port­fo­lio man­age­ment of an enti­ty. The cho­sen reg­is­trar must be known for its reli­a­bil­i­ty and pro­fes­sion­al­ism and it must be accred­it­ed.

Accred­it­ed ICANN and cer­ti­fied ISO 27001 on all its activ­i­ty of reg­is­tra­tion office, Nameshield assists com­pa­nies in the man­age­ment and the secur­ing of their domain names port­fo­lio.

More info on our reg­is­trar activ­i­ty.

Source: Nameshield’s White paper – Under­stand­ing domain names