Why can’t you jusr register a domain name yourself?

Question

It’s one of the things I still just can’t get my head around:

Why do you need to yearly pay a company to have them register your domain name? Why couldn’t you do it yourself, like all the other things you do to build a website?

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Answer 1

You can. But you need to register with a domain registrar, because they own the connection, kind of like an ISP for domains.