If internet doesn't belongs to anyone, why should i pay for registering a domain name? Please help me....
Yes you have to pay when you buy a domain name of course! However it is very cheap.
The internet is not the same thing. The internet is like a massive network connecting computers together almost the same way roads connect houses.
Domain names are simply the addresses, the internet the roads and the houses themselves are like websites.
That is the best way to explain it, virtual property.
While "the internet" doesn't belong to anyone, the modems, servers, routers, fiber-optic lines, and the technology required to make it work still has to get paid for. Some of that belongs to companies, some of it to the non-profit organizations that run the internet and all its associated systems (the web, the email system, the FTP systems, there are MANY) - and all the people that work there need to have somewhere to work & to get paid - so there's technology, buildings, rents and thousands of other expenses that have to be paid for.
Your question is kind of like asking: "if streets don't belong to anyone why do I have to pay taxes?" Um..because although they don't technically belong to a single person or company they still have to be installed, managed and maintained.
It's a small price to pay so the whole SYSTEM can function for everyone's betterment.
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There are administrative costs involved in insuring that you are the only one in the world using a particular name, as well as making some effort to document the domain owner.
There are been free domain names available, but the easy to get and poorly managed domains have been associated with a high incidence of fraud, bad enough that Google removed all 11 million .cc.co sites from their index.
I am troubled y some domain name speculators who bought up valuable names early in the game, some of which that have resold for millions of dollars.
The same reason people pay more money for better property. If you want a nice name, you deal with a web hosting company to become the legal owner of Internet property, so that a certain address belongs to you and no one else. This will help you build brand identity without someone else copying you.
In the normal world you also have to register a business name ,on the web it is the same.
simple!!!
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If internet doesn't belongs to anyone, why should i pay for registering a domain name? Please help me....
