Registrars and Nameservers

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 23, 2025View source ↗

Registrars are companies accredited by ICANN to register domains. In other words, there’s a global registry (and a bunch of national registries) of domains, and registrars are the only companies permitted to sell domains and add them to the registry. Once you have a domain in hand, you can add DNS records, which basically tell …Registrars and NameserversRead More ».

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