webdoctor - 9:27 am on Mar 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

If you registered through a mainstream registrar, the risk of them going bankrupt is IMHO essentially nil. But still possible. Jtara actually posed one such case, and a very complex one at that.

...hence the use of the phrase "essentially nil" :-)

If you were doing due diligence on italiandragon, and assuming s/he uses a major registrar to register domains, would you really rate "registrar goes bust" as a significant business risk? I'm not sure I would.

I've had thought italiandragon is FAR more likely to lose a domain due to a domain name dispute - trademark infringement or even reverse hijack [en.wikipedia.org] - especially after reading what was posted in this thread [webmasterworld.com]

If we're talking about major registrars of the size of Verisign or Godaddy, how many have gone bust?