What is a Registrar?
The organization responsible for the actual registration of a domain name is known as the registrar. The registrar keeps track of domain ownership, administrative contacts, technical contacts, DNS names and numbers, etc. Any change to any of the information associated with a domain name must be done at the current registrar of that domain.
A registrar is a company that actually registers domain names. When you register for a domain, the registrar will submit the technical information to a central directory known as the “registry,” which provides other computers on the Internet the information necessary to send you e-mail or to find your web site.
A registrar is an organization or company that is either authorized by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers, an organization dedicated to Internet governance) to provide registration services for the .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info global top-level domain names, or is authorized by its respective government to register domain names within a specific TLD (domain name extension). A registrar must also be authorized by the registry of a Top Level Domain to act as an agent of the registry to process domain name registrations, where the agent is not a reseller. The registrar is also responsible for creating and maintaining a WHOIS database for its customers.
