Hi, I am looking to register a new domain (.com) name and i have a few questions which i hope you domain experts can help me with: 1 - when registering a domain through an online domain / hosting company, how or who secures the domain for you once you have paid for it, is there a governing body that looks after all of these domains or who exactly owns each domain in the first place... who are you actually buying it from 2 - if i buy the domain from one domain / hosting company, is it ok to buy the hosting from another company... if so how is the domain name linked to the hosting that i eventually get... 3 - i can understand why you need to pay for your hosting every year but i thought once you buy a domain name, that's it, it's yours for life... so why do i need to pay / renew my domain name each year... do we not really own our domain names when we buy them... if not, who does own them... 4 - i see that some domain / hosting companies are charging €7 for a .com - others are charging €10 and others are charging €15... none of these come with any extra options so how and why do they charge different prices... 5 - how are new domain endings (.com .ie .net .org) created... i am starting to see more and more new endings, who allows you to create these and how are they created... thanks in advance for your help
1. An agent (registrar's) normally will act of your behalf to enter the data in the master database held by the company(registry) who manages that domain. Different companies look after different registries so for example .com's are not handled by the same company than .org's. There are a oversight company that deals with different aspects which charges a few cents per domain to deal with issues (called ICANN) 2. It's often recommend, While it can add an extra failure point if you do enter into issues with a hosting company you can simply pint the domain somewhere else. 3. You rent domains, you leasing a entry on the master database and for the management of that entry. 4. The difference in price is down promotions, service they offer, and what they think their customers will pay. When registering a domain many people look for a cheapest supplier but it's still a very critical part of your online business, Choose someone who you trust. 5. You have to apply for a new extension, It takes a long time and a lot of money to propose a new extension and you will probably be rejected. Most extensions are from country codes so .us for the United States and .co for Columbia.
1. All domain names are governed by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. When you buy a domain from domain registrars like Namecheap, GoDaddy, etc., a small mandatory fee goes to ICANN. 2. Yes, it's okay to buy domain from one company and hosting from another. Many people buy domains from GoDaddy or Namecheap and host them on Hostgator or Bluehost. 3. Domains can be registered for minimum of 1 year and maximum 10 years. There's no way to own domains for life. You need to renew them every year or they'll expire. 4. Don't know. 5. Most generic top-level domains (like .com .net .org, .in, .co.uk) are owned and managed by IANA and ICANN. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars (like Namecheap, Godaddy, etc.) who sell their services to the public.
no one bothers to go thru the 100 millions domains ownership . but there is an option to dispute for the false whois. yes you can buy from 1 host and host with other hosting too your paying the domain yearly fee not buying for life. its upto the registrar to decide the fee. icann alone or icann and country registries for cctlds or icann and respective registries for other tlds
Thanks for all of the replies, much appreciated... So would i be right in saying that ICANN own the internet...
You will be able to find appropriate information via Whois lookup! It contains all the information about the Registrant!
Ok, thanks... but would i be right in saying that someone must own it... who is at the very top level... who gives ICANN permission to govern it... Sorry if this sounds a little intrusive but i am just trying to get my head around it all and to see who is at the very top of the organisational chart, thanks again for your help...
It's very complex and fragile relationship, no-one is at the top and in certain areas people break rules. No one really gives ICANN permission to govern it just so happens that most people agree with them and abide by their rules. There is little to stop you setting up your own extension assigning whatever IP addresses you want and trying to announce routes to those blocks etc. (in fact this happens in private quite often). Depending on your local country you may be breaking rules but even if your not no-one will take you seriously and listen to you as an authority since everyone listens to ICANN as the authority.