Domain Registrar
Domain Registrar
is a company who can provide internet domain names
- They verify if the domain is available and allow you to purchase it
- Once the domain is registered, you are the
legal owner
of the domain name
- Most of the companies that are
Domain Registrar
are also a DNS Resolver
(Authoritative DNS server)
- You can buy a domain from a domain registrar and opt to use the dns server (name server / NS) of another company
- At the
domain registrar
you can configure all the DNS settings (DNS records
), including the NS
Examples
- Cloudfare (recommended)
- Namecheap (recommended)
- GoDaddy
- Wix
- AWS Route53
- Registo BR (*.br only)