Reader Domain Name Registrars – Who Are They?
Domain Name Registrars – Who Are They?
A domain name registrar is an entity, accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or by a National Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) authority, to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries and offer such services to the public.
- The domain name industry is regulated and overseen by ICANN and ccTLDs.
It is impossible for an end-user to register a domain name directly to ICANN – a designated registrar must be chosen. Each accredited registrar must pay a fixed fee of $4000 to ICANN as well as dividing a fee of $3.8 million among all registrars.
You can research your domain name choices at any of the registrars listed in my article, ‘Where to Register Domain Names". Most of these registrars provide domain name registration, domain name hosting, FREE domain name search facilities and some even give you a FREE domain name if you accept their domain name hosting package.
