What is a Registrar?
A Registrar (also known as a Certification/Registration Body, or CRB) is a third-party company that is contracted to perform an impartial evaluation of a company’s quality, environmental, or other management system’s conformance to the requirements of the appropriate ISO standard, and to issue a registration certificate once conformance is verified.
A registrar, also known as a Domain Name Registration Service, is a company that inserts your domain name into a directory of all the domain names and their corresponding computers on the Internet. The registrar you choose will ask you to provide various contact and technical information that makes up the registration. The registrar will then keep records of the contact information and submit the technical information to a central directory known as the “registry.” This registry provides other computers on the Internet the information necessary to send you e-mail or to find your web site. You will also be required to enter into a registration contract with the registrar, which sets forth the terms under which your registration is accepted and will be maintained. Each registrar sets the price it charges for registering names, and prices vary significantly among different registrars. In addition, some registrars offer discounted or free registration services in connection with other offe
The registrar is one of the oldest positions in higher education. Its historical origins date back to the end of the 12th century. The bedle, or beadle, at the University of Oxford made announcements, collected fines, and escorted “evil-doers” to prison, according to Charles Mallet’s A History of the University of Oxford (1927). At the Universities of Paris and Bologna, the bedle or bedelli served similar functions. It was not until 1446 that the title of “registrar” emerged at Oxford. According to C. James Quann’s Admissions, Academic Records, and Registrar Services (1980), the registrar’s duties were to “give form and permanence to the university’s public acts, to draft its letters, to make copies of its documents, and to register the names of its graduates and their ‘examinatory sermons.'” In America, the first registrar served at Harvard in a part-time capacity. The registrar was primarily a teaching faculty member, a tradition that continued until the late 1800’s. At that point it
A registrar, also known as a Domain Name Registration Service, is a company that inserts your domain name into a directory of all the domain names and their corresponding computers on the Internet. The registrar you choose will ask you to provide various contact and technical information that makes up the registration. The registrar will then keep records of the contact information and submit the technical information to a central directory known as the “registry.” This registry provides other computers on the Internet the information necessary to send you e-mail or to find your Website. You will also be required to enter into a registration contract with the registrar, which sets forth the terms under which your registration is accepted and will be maintained. Each registrar sets the price it charges for registering names, and prices vary significantly among different registrars. In addition, some registrars offer discounted or free registration services in connection with other offer
