Everyone who follows the domain name industry understands that many registrars sell names at ultra-low margins and the upsell related services, like hosting and email, in order to make their profit. If you look around the registrar ranks, you'll see a healthy variety of add-on services at the point of sale. But I was surprised to see Dotster adding "Public Relations Services," including "Crisis Management," for its domain name customers. The prices are not trivial, but they're fixed, flat rate, which should be attractive to a lot of small businesses that don't typically need PR services.

Now that registrars are upselling services, I suppose the next offering will be legal services.....

P.S. In light of that last quip, I should add, in all seriousness, that I've been surprised a registrar hasn't offered "UDRP insurance" for registrants. I've long thought that this would be an attractive, profitable add-on for domainers with modest portfolios.