Like how do people sell domains and could I take one for myself without using their services?
And most importantly, where does it (the domain) come from?
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Every router or server connected to the internet has an IP address. It’s a long string of numbers and letters. In theory, if you knew the IP address of a website that you wanted to visit, you could visit them by entering that address into your browser. The problem is that this is super cumbersome.
So in the early days of the internet, they came up with DNS, which is the Domain Name System. DNS maintains a list of domain names and the IP addresses that they correspond to. It’s essentially the internet’s phone book. DNS allows you to access websites by entering their domain names, so that you don’t have to remember their IP addresses. DNS is managed by a group called ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. They allow licensed registrars to add domain names to the database for a fee. And that’s why you have to use a registered domain registrar – otherwise, your domain name won’t end up in DNS.
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