Hello fellow Lemmings! I hope this is the right place to ask this. I don’t understand how web domains work. Let’s say I want to buy the domain “abcdefghi.net”. I can go to a domain provider like haruba or godaddy and just buy it. but how can they, a private, sell me these domains? I’m not talking about the hosting, but just the domain. where do they register this domain I’m buying? isn’t it possible to register it myself instead of paying these services to do it for me?

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    1 year ago

    Isn’t that parking? I don’t think this would be legal in many places given there wasn’t a completely egregarious contact he missed or something similar.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah. I am wary of anyone who offers registrations drastically cheaper than the cost. The usual gotcha I’ve seen is that after the first year, the renewal fees are astronomical end they charge unusually high fees for transfers. I guess ownership shenanigans can happen too.