A Couple Question About Domains Like .com Or .net?

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First of all what are these called?
Who makes them?
Can you make your own if you have your own website or server?
Are there more then the list on places like godaddy.com?
Are they different for different continents?

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"A Couple Question About Domains Like .com Or .net?" was posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 9:31 am.

4 Responses to “A Couple Question About Domains Like .com Or .net?”

David D(2010-01-12):

> First of all what are these called?
Top level domains
> Who makes them?
Ultimately – ICANN, but Domain Registrars act as middle men as ICANN only work direct with entities who want LOTS of domains
> Can you make your own if you have your own website or server?
No
> Are there more then the list on places like godaddy.com?
There are many domain ragistrars. http://www.google.co.uk/search?f&q=Domai…
> Are they different for different continents?
Different organisations handle country code top level domains (e.g. Nominet handles .uk domains).
Registrars usually allow users to register domains that hang off top level domains and the country code top level domains for the country they are based in (e.g. Easily handle .uk domains as well as .com/.net/.org/etc)
Camden R(2010-01-12):

.com is commerical .net is internet. The American Government regulates the domain names (ICANN) so yes, you have to buy one. I recommend if you are going to buy one, you buy it from 1and1.com as they are easy to work with in my experience and cheap. There are different domain names for countries. ex. .uk (United Kingdom) .ch (China) .tw (Taiwan) .mx (Mexico) .ca (Canada) and the list goes on…
Dave G(2010-01-12):

First refer to: http://www.goldpuma.com/answers.html
As you may know a domain name is just a name, not a real website. If you are going to create your website: 1- Buy a domain name. To get a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. 2- Buy a web hosting service to provide your online space and enable you to get your website online at your purchased domain name.
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Blog-MSC(2010-01-13):

Basically .com domains for Commercial sites and .net for Internet service providers. yes there are many domain sellers with different price list.