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?

  • parrottail
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    1 year ago

    google.domains is being sold off to GoDaddy from what I read.

    Edit: SquareSpace, not GoDaddy. I mis-remembered.

    • themoonisacheese
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      1 year ago

      Indeed. I wrote my comment hours before the announcement. Gutted that I’m going to have to migrate.