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Curious if this will impact AWS pricing, as I believe Gandi is one of the main providers behind Route 53.

I 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.

I would have assumed Amazon did that themselves? Amazon Registrar, Inc. is ICANN accredited.

Yes 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.

It 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/do...

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