How domain names are priced
How domain names are priced
ICANN is the highest management organization for global domain names, headquartered in California, USA. It was originally a non-profit organization under the U.S. Department of Commerce, so some people claim that the U.S. government controls domain names all over the world. Although this claim is not entirely true, it has some basis. In 2016, the US government announced that ICANN was no longer affiliated with the Department of Commerce and became an independent agency. ICANN is responsible for managing the operation of the global domain name system, and one of its main tasks is to regulate top-level domains (TLDs).
ICANN, the top-level domain host, is not going to manage these top-level domains by itself, because there is no way to manage them. There are more than 1,000 top-level domain names, and there are many wholesalers under each top-level domain name. It would be a huge project to manage each of them. Therefore, ICANN's management policy is to let each top-level domain name find a custodian, and then all matters of the domain name are the responsibility of the custodian. ICANN only contacts the custodian, which makes it a lot easier to manage. For example, the custodian of the .cn domain name is the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which determines various policies for .cn domain names, including the “wholesale price” of the domain name. At present, the world's largest top-level domain host is Verisign in the United States.
Specific criteria for domain name pricing
Now when people talk about the Internet, countless websites in the world have built a prosperous Internet for us, and a domain name has been established on the website. Because there is no domain name, we want to open a website not a series of numbers that are easy to remember, but a series of IP addresses that people cannot remember. Because of this, many netizens still do not know who will manage the domain name industry and who will set the price?
ICANN organization is the highest domain name management organization in the world, known as ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the Chinese abbreviation for Internet Assigned Names and Numbers, and is a non-profit international organization. It was established in October 1998 and is headquartered in California, USA. icann was a non-profit organization under the US Department of Commerce, so some people say that the US government controls the global domain name management, thereby controlling the voice of the Internet. But in 2016, the U.S. government announced that icann would no longer be part of the Commerce Department, becoming an autonomous, independent agency. But it is conceivable that the US government still has absolute influence over it. icann is responsible for managing the operation of the global domain name system. One of its main tasks is to develop top-level domains (top-level domains, or tlds for short). Formulate domain name industry rules and build a friendly domain name market environment.
The category of the domain name (TLD), the so-called top-level domain name (TLD), is the highest level of the domain name. Simply put, it is the last part of the website.
The above is a detailed introduction on how to price domain names, I hope it can help you.