Domain Registration — Choosing and Managing Your Domains
Navigate domain registrars, TLDs, WHOIS privacy, and the settings that protect your domains from theft.
Your domain name is the front door to your application. It's how users find you, how they bookmark you, and how they remember you. It's also one of the few things that, if lost, can be genuinely difficult to recover. Domains get hijacked. Registrations expire because someone forgot to renew. Transfer locks get removed by social engineering attacks.
Getting a domain is easy — a few clicks and a credit card. Managing it properly takes a bit more knowledge, and protecting it takes deliberate action.
How Domain Registration Works
When you "buy" a domain, you're not buying it outright. You're leasing the right to use it from the relevant registry for a period of time (usually 1-10 years). Here's the hierarchy:
ICANN — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. They ove
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