What is a registrar?
There are several steps you have to take before getting your website online and one of the first is making sure you have the address you want.
You have to buy your Internet address, also known as domain, from a registrar. Registrars are businesses that handle the reservation of domain names, as well as the assignment of IP addresses to those domains.
You can think of registrars as car dealerships: they sell you the car but they do not manufacture it. In this analogy, your domain is the car, the registrar is the car dealership, and the manufacturer are the registries, entities responsible for top-level domains (TLD) like .com.
This is a complex topic, but the main takeaway is this: there are several entities responsible for different aspects of the Internet. The place where you buy your domain can be different from the place where you manage it and is not necessarily the same place where you host your website. The domain name only tells the world where your website is located.
For a comprehensive explanation regarding this subject, refer to What is a domain name registrar?.
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