If I go to GoDaddy and pay them to own a domain, what happens in the background? Is there a way to cut out the middle man?
I have a background in network engineering, so using terms like DNS, IP address etc. is ok
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The other important thing to know is the Top-Level domain registry owns the domain. They are just letting you lease it.
The internet is not unlike a series of apartment or office buildings and the registrars are landlords letting you lease specifically-labeled rooms in it.
You can fill that room with as much stuff as you want, but if you stop paying, they will rent it to someone else and you and all your stuff no longer have an address you can be found at.
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