ICANN accreditation

The approval from ICANN (glossary)ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN that lets a company act as a registrar (glossary)registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar for gTLDs (glossary)gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD. An accredited registrar signs the RAA (glossary)RAA Registrar Accreditation Agreement The contract between ICANN and each accredited registrar. Full definition of RAA and must follow ICANN policies. Companies without accreditation can still sell domains as resellers (glossary)reseller A business that sells domains using another registrar's accreditation. Full definition of reseller of an accredited registrar.