How do internet domains work? Who are you paying?
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There’s an international organization called ICANN that basically administers the entire system of internet domains. This ensures universal compliance with a set of rules and regulations that allows the internet as we know it to function across all devices anywhere in the world. They allow a very limited number of organizations to create a top level domain, like .com, .net, .edu or more recent ones like.site. They collect a fee for this to keep the lights on, so to speak. Those organizations then offer access to their registries to for-profit registrar organizations, like GoDaddy or TUCOWS, that sell domains to end users. By working together to conform to ICANN rules, people can trust that the domain they buy will work as intended for anyone in the world who uses it.
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