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

    Another vote for Gandi here - used them for years and absolutely no complaints.

    That said, CloudFlare are a competent registrar as well and if you’re going to use them for your site anyway…