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They are just describing the practice of a minority of registrars to put their own contact info in the WHOIS registrant info instead of your contact info. Gandi
by dangrossman 15y ago
They are just describing the practice of a minority of registrars to put their own contact info in the WHOIS registrant info instead of your contact info. Gandi isn't a big exception here, that's not standard practice.
Beyond that, there's not much to discuss. The semantics aren't that important, whether you 'own' or 'lease' the name doesn't change the fact that you get the name for a limited time only, attached to a contract that restricts what you can do with it and allows the registry to take the name back under various circumstances.
- pawn 15y agoI've recently been wondering if there might be a way to actually own a domain such that I'm not paying someone else a monthly/yearly fee. I've seen those "premium" domain names that you have to pay $1,000 for and thought "If I bought that, would that be it? I get it forever?" I haven't really looked into it closely yet, but would be interested to know.
- dangrossman 15y agoNo, that's just someone reselling a domain. There is no way to own a domain forever with one payment. You can prepay at most 10 years.