Domain Names

Who Owns A Domain Name?

A domain name, in a nutshell, and in the context of the World Wide Web, is the main address found in the Universal Resource Locater or URL of your web browser. For instance, the domain name of Amazon is www.Amazon.com, and the domain name of Google is www.Google.com. This is the name through which they can be found in the vast Information Superhighway.

who owns a domain name? The person who owns a domain name is the person who has registered it. The Internet is basically a global public property, and all people in the planet have all the rights to own a domain name as long as it is not yet registered. For example, if your name is John Smith and you would like to have a website entitled www.JohnSmith.com and an email address like, name@johnsmith.com, then what you can do is to buy "JohnSmith" as your domain name through signing up in a domain name registrar website.

A domain name, like other types of registration, has an expiry date, and can be renewed after such date. This means that it can be bought by or transferred to another owner. If a person who owns a domain name, for example, decides that he or she does not want to keep it anymore, he or she can sell it to other people, or simply let it expire and be bought through the domain registrar by somebody else. Conversely, if a person want to own a certain domain name but it is unfortunately already registered under another person, the domain registrar can give the contact details of who owns a domain name so the person can make negotiations with the owner.