Who is the owner of all the .com domain names? When I’m paying for one, what does the company actually do in order to generate it for me? It’s not like they’ve already have it and they’ll just hand it over to me. It never existed in the first place.
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the legality of it is fussy – ICANN could be said to be the group which owns all the domains of that type – as well as any others.
https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accredited-list.html
above is a list of “registrars” who ICANN trusts to register domains safely and properly for reasonable users. The fact that child porn domains aren’t common to the point where neither me nor you have ever seen one could be largely accredited to them. maybe. who knows.
some companies, like alphabet inc, will directly register a domain from ICANN. because they can.
anyway, icann’s standard is what almost all public DNS’ use as the standard.
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