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World Wide Web is like a collection of bulletin boards in a school, divided into groups by classes; then sub-divided into activity groups such as sports, homework assignments, results, etc. With such an organized display on bulletin boards, we can easily locate desired information without too much confusion. School authorities may assign the responsibility of ensuring a bulletin is put on the correct bulletin board to a staff member.
World Wide Web is also organized similarly, so that you and I can easily locate the information we want. Every individual or organization and governmental or otherwise, must choose the correct domain names and identify themselves with an address. Registration of domain names has been assigned to different organizations according to the level of the domain. Such organizations are known as domain registrars or domain name registrars. For instance, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a domain registrar and has the responsibility of gTLD Domain Registration.A list of registrars is easily available from ICANN website or from Wikipedia. Generally domain name registration is a complex issue. There are many organizations which are sellers of domain names operating under the accredited registrars, and most of them also host the web sites. Domain name registration can be an expensive proposition. You can probably find a cheap domain name registrar to do it at a very modest cost. A partial list of these cheap domain registrars includes NetFirms, Yahoo, EV1Servers, Hostway, Stargate, Interland, Web.com, etc. A cheap domain registrar is usually good enough for basic web site publishing. There are many organizations that advertise themselves as free domain registrars. One ought to be careful of such claims because they are basically hosting websites and also undertake to assist in getting registration. There is a lot of domain registrar reviews conducted from time to time. A search on any good search site will yield a harvest of them. Given is a list of registrars which are highly rated in the best domain registrars review in reviewsonline.com, and they are Dotster.com, Galcomm.com, EV1servers.net, Godaddy, Onlinenic.com, Maxipoint Servers.com, etc. You may even want to be your own domain registrar. The basics are quite straight forward for registration of a small business. Onlinebusiness.about.com is among a number of other sites that give guidance in this direction. If you want to become a domain registrar, you can contact internic.net for more information. Sometimes, it becomes more convenient or operationally easier to have your domain name registration changed from one registrar to another. Such a domain name registrar transfer is permitted. As mentioned earlier, domain registrar information is easily available on websites such as ICANN or Wikipedia. With so much information available in the internet, it will be very easy to find a domain registrar for domain registration.
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