How do domain sites get their domains?

[Lin]

So this is what I want to know... If these domain registering companies are making money off of us how do they register them themselves?

[Lukas]

They register their domain through themselves once they become an accredited ICANN register.

[daneasaur]

Lin, you gonna become a registrar? ;p

[Lin]

Lin, you gonna become a registrar? ;p

Naw,
I just wasn't aware of how they did it. Also I wanted to figure out how to get a free domain ya dig?

[Lukas]

Getting free domains can sometimes be done on on those survey sites, but it takes time.
Otherwise, there are un-ethical, or non-legit ways to get free ones, but they are only 10 bucks, so I would just buy it.

[Omniscient]

Do you mean major resellers like BuyDomains? They have acquired domains for many years and still buy them. Don't believe they pay reg fee for everything. Sometimes they pay $xx,xxx for a domain they want too.

[Lin]

Do you mean major resellers like BuyDomains? They have acquired domains for many years and still buy them. Don't believe they pay reg fee for everything. Sometimes they pay $xx,xxx for a domain they want too.

No i mean like,
http://1and1.com
or
http://godaddy.com

[Omniscient]

They are registrars. They are accredited by ICAAN to sell domains.

Godaddy make a connect to the Registry (Verisign for .com) and tells them to register the domain with the whois data and DNS.

Verisign is a Registry
Godaddy is a Registrar
Domain Owner is the Registrant

[UniversalForumz]

Thanks, this helped alot

I was also wondering how they got them

[FillUp]

Very interesting, I was just wondering the same thing.