If I make a website, like cookie.com, what exactly makes browsers direct to the “cookie.com” page I made? And what stops multiple “cookie.com”s from being hosted from different servers? The internet is decentralized so I just don’t understand how domain registration works at all.
On this note, what do the different domain extensions mean, and how are they created? It used to be 99% .net, .org and .com, but there’s like 50 trillion different ones now.
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A similar thing to what is preventing you from having the number you like on your house or apartment building.
It’s regulated.
The ICANN is the international organization that coordinates who owns what.
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