I’m completely dumbfounded.
I searched up a domain name I would like, and it turned out that no one owned it, it was just a ”Can’t reach the site” message. My immediate thought is how can I get this site, it should be free right? Since I’m not actually renting it or buying it from anyone, it’s completely unused.
I google it up and can’t find a single answer, all everyone says is you need to buy a subscription from a company like GoDaddy, Domain.com, One.com and others. These companies don’t own the site I wanted, they must register it in some way before they sell it to me, so why can’t I just register it myself and skip the middle man?
Seriously, are these companies paying google to hide this info?
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The top level domains (.com, .us, .co.uk, .pt, etc) all have owners already. So if you want to register “zuperlucaz.com” you have to pay the “owner” of the .com top level domain (oversimplification warning).
Nothing prevents you from “registering” just “zuperlucaz” as a top level domain, but as others have said you’d need to somehow have all the DNS servers in the world to properly resolve your domain and for that to happen you’d need to get [icann](https://www.icann.org/)’s approval (spoiler: you can’t because you’re not a country).
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