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Hollywoodbound
09-16-2008, 08:15 AM
Random question... as usual. How excactly to domain name site get the right to sell you space on the web? Why is it that I can go to Godaddy, Domain.com, Yahoo.com and buy the same name. Where is the money going? Why do these companies control the space I am buying on the web (or really just the NAME of the space. Thanks!
tokenuser
09-16-2008, 11:43 AM
Random question... as usual. How excactly to domain name site get the right to sell you space on the web? Why is it that I can go to Godaddy, Domain.com, Yahoo.com and buy the same name. Where is the money going? Why do these companies control the space I am buying on the web (or really just the NAME of the space. Thanks!THey aren't really selling the domains. THey are acting as the registrar (or broker) for the name. It is realy being sold/managed/registered with ICANN (http://www.icann.org/).
bigshotprof
09-16-2008, 03:14 PM
THey aren't really selling the domains. THey are acting as the registrar (or broker) for the name. It is realy being sold/managed/registered with ICANN (http://www.icann.org/).
Yeah, GoDaddy is like a mortgage broker. Icann is Fannie Mae. They just fill out the paper for you.
AriaStar
09-16-2008, 08:21 PM
I'm curious who gave ICANN ownership of the internet.
Secret Steve Crumbles
09-16-2008, 08:31 PM
I'm curious who gave ICANN ownership of the internet.LOL, the government.
LOL, the government.
LOL
the internet is not under the jurisdiction of the us government
thankfully
tokenuser
09-17-2008, 12:23 AM
LOL
the internet is not under the jurisdiction of the us government
thankfullyLets correct that shall we ...
the internet is no longer under the jurisdiction of the us government
The US government (NSF?) previously controlled the top level domain name servers (DN). The rest of the world cried "unfair" ... so ICANN was established as a nonprofit organisation who board comprised of regional adminsitrars (for all the .au, .it, .cc TLDs), plus other folks. A UN of Internet World.
When you purchase a domain name, part of the proceeds goes to fund ICANN, part goes to the registrar.
Bani-Banan
09-17-2008, 01:23 AM
When you purchase a domain name, part of the proceeds goes to fund ICANN, part goes to the registrar.
It's $0.20/domain that ICANN takes.
Damn. Whenever I see the ICANN logo, or someone mentions it, I can't help but to think of I can has cheezburger.
Hollywoodbound
09-17-2008, 07:44 PM
Cool... im starting to understand this a bit more... I used to be a broker so I know how that all works. I figured it was something like that.
tokenuser
09-17-2008, 08:00 PM
I used to be a broker so I know how that all works. I figured it was something like that.So now we know who to blame for the sub-prime mess.
thanks for that.