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A domain registrar provides the service of allowing one to register domain names.

A domain registrar provides the service of allowing one to register domain names.

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How do registrars register authoritative name servers with root name servers?

I understand that domain name registrars, for each domain they manage, register the authoritative name servers for that domain with its top-level root name server. My question is: how do they do this? Is there a special protocol they use? How do…
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Who is a good registrar these days?

It's been a long time since I've had to register a new domain. What registrar is considered geek and sysadmin friendly? I've heard that godaddy will screw you 10 ways to Sunday, and a lot of the other ones basically only lease you the domain. …
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Relation between "Registrar Registration Expiration Date" and the actual expiry

I'm struggeling somewhat understanding the Expiration related output for a whois query of a .com domain. In particular I don't really get the meaning of the Registrar Registration Expiration Date field. Here is an example (shortened): $ whois…
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Will I lose my .fr second-level domain once I am no longer a resident of Europe?

Hopefully this question is appropriate here. The .fr TLD stands for France and is managed by AFNIC. In order to register for second-level domains under this TLD, one is required to be a resident of the European Econonic Area. I am currently a…
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DNS down in Anonymous attack

As I'm writing this our company website and the web-service we developed are down in the big GoDaddy outage resulting from an Anonymous attack (or so says Twitter). We used GoDaddy as our registrar and we use it for DNS for some domains. Tomorrow…
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What is the best Domain Registrar?

Possible Duplicate: Who is a good registrar these days? What is your favorite (US) Domain Registrar? While this is not specifically a programming question, I host a good number of websites. I've used a handful of different registrars in the past,…
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Domain Registrar Reseller Won't Provide EPP for Transfer

I've been using Arvixe for my hosting and domain registrar business for the last few years but their customer service has cratered and I am out of patience and eager to make a change (of both web host and registrar - I want no part of Arvixe…
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Dealing with the aftermath when a domain's "administrative contact" disappears?

Let's begin. Are we seated comfortably? Once upon a time, company A registered their domain name with GoDaddy.com, and contracted with another local "web design firm" to handle their web and email needs. The "web design firm", which in this case…
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What's a good, cheap registrar that supports IPv6 glue?

I'm currently using namecheap, but I'd like to start adding ipv6 glue entries to my nameserver records, and they don't seem to support ipv6 glue reliably. What's a good, cheap registrar that supports ipv6 glue for the major TLDs (particularly .info,…
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How to Transfer a "Premium" Domain to another Registrar

Short Version: How do I transfer a .tv domain from one registrar (enom.tv) to another (godaddy.com) when the current registrar considers this a "Premium" domain and won't generate a transfer authorization (EPP) code? (The Premium status was…
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Why is my .name domain name reserved?

I was recently introduced to the .name TLD by a friend, since it would offer a good alternative to .com and .net, which are both taken for my last name. Naturally, I went to name.com, godaddy.com, gandi.net, etc. only to find out I couldn't register…
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What criteria should I use when choosing a registrar?

I'm re-evaluating my choice of domain registrar, and need name registration services for 200+ .com, .net, and .org TLDs. There are a few .biz and newer TLDs. In general, when evaluating a registrar for many DNS domains, what factors should be taken…
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How does a registrar update the gtld name servers?

Is there a standardized protocol how a registrar updates the NS information for a domain? For example, if, through my registrar's interface, I set the name servers for "example.com" to "ns1.example.com" and "ns2.example.com" how are…
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Why isn't my EPP code from NameCheap.com working?

I'm trying to transfer a DNS domain from a third-party to our company's account. The third-party used NameCheap.com, also known as enom.com. Namecheap gave the third-party an authorization code (an "EPP code") which we use to begin the transfer…
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Tools for finding domain names

I've built out a pet project of mine, and am now looking for a good domain name for it. Arbitrarily doing whois lookups on ideas that pop into my head seems inefficient. What tools do you use when searching for a good domain name? Some ideas to get…
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