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[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Dear John,

thank you for this very interesting contribution. I wondered about one
paragraph:

On 25/09/2020 04:34, John McCormac wrote:
> The number of US registrars, according to the May 2020 ICANN reports
> is 1,931. The second place goes to China with 63. The majority of
> ICANN registars are drop catchers. They exist only to register
> deleting domain names and are not retail registrars. (The table for
> the breakdowns by country/COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/MOBI/ASIA are on the
> front page of HosterStats.) 

Could you please explain this? They register deleted domain names - for
themselves? - and are *not* retail registrars? I thought the function of
a registrar is to sell to domain name registrants either directly or
through agents?
Kindest regards,

Olivier
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