• steltek@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Renewal costs are my primary consideration when picking domains. Subscription fees is how your money disappears when you’re not looking.

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      1 year ago

      Anyone know how companies get the rights to domains to sell in the first place? Do they literally submit a list of all domains to ICANN or something? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I just never understood how any of this really works.

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        1 year ago

        TLD - Top Level Domain (.com .ml .whatever)

        Registrar - NameCheap, PorkBun, etc. Submits your domain.TLD request to a Registry

        Registry - Maintains the list of domains for a specific TLD and the server infrastructure to run the TLD

        ICANN - Decides who can be a Registry and for which TLD. Not involved in the nitty gritty of individual domain names.