How do internet domains work? Who are you paying?
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A domain is basically an easy name to reach a website. A domain redircts you to the assoiciated server ip address. Lets say your favorite websites ip address is 1.37.4628.2726. That pretty hard to memorize so instead you type in yourfavoritewebsite.com and you are connected. There is an asociation called ICANN that certiefies the domain name. A Domain-Registar is where you can buy the domain and the domain-registar looks that everything is alright and registers the domain you bought at ICANN. Top level domain like .tv are owned by their countrys. They usually sell a license to a company. The tld .tv for example is ownend by Tuvalu but licensed to Verisgn. Tuvalu gets only a small part of the revenue that .tv generates for verisig. Tuvalu gets 5 million a year for .tv. So when you are buying a domain. You pay for the infrastructre, prestige and license fee.
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