Permanently Buy a Domain Name?

[Gias Kay]

Hi all,

Where is the official place to permanently buy away a domain name? And how much would this cost, usually?

[dragos240]

It depends. Different domains go to different sites.

[Mike'sHardLinux]

I seriously doubt you can permanently buy a domain. (unless you are someone like whitehouse.gov or something like that) Show me the goods!

[Gias Kay]

I seriously doubt you can permanently buy a domain. (unless you are someone like whitehouse.gov or something like that) Show me the goods!

I would agree, but somewhere on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Thefacebook) it says Facebook "purchased" their domain for $200,000.

[PrimoTurbo]

You cannot buy a domain name forever, you have to re-new it for a price every year.

[PrimoTurbo]

I would agree, but somewhere on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Thefacebook) it says Facebook "purchased" their domain for $200,000.

They bought the domain from someone for that price, because facebook.com was not original domain it was thefacebook.com

You can re-new for many years ahead, so technically you can pay a few thousand to own it for a couple of hundred years. But nothing is permanent, maybe we won't have domain names a few decades from now.

[Gias Kay]

Would the price become behemoth as your site become more popular and famous? Like how much is Google or Yahoo! paying for their domain name each year...?

[PrimoTurbo]

The price will be the same to renew each year. ICANN is in charge of all domains, read on it from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Corporation_for_Assigned_Names_and_Number s

[orlox]

A domain name is not something that can be actually owned, in the sense of tangible property. As far as I know, domains are handled by specific dns servers, so whenever you try to access someadress.com, your primary dns server asks the dns servers that manage the .com addresses for the IP address of someadress.com

So you're not actually paying for something that can be owned, you're paying for a service.

(is this correct??)

[phrostbyte]

They bought the domain from someone for that price, because facebook.com was not original domain it was thefacebook.com

You can re-new for many years ahead, so technically you can pay a few thousand to own it for a couple of hundred years. But nothing is permanent, maybe we won't have domain names a few decades from now.

I think 10 years is the ICANN maximum. :)

[Dr. C]

A domain name is not something that can be actually owned, in the sense of tangible property. As far as I know, domains are handled by specific dns servers, so whenever you try to access someadress.com, your primary dns server asks the dns servers that manage the .com addresses for the IP address of someadress.com

So you're not actually paying for something that can be owned, you're paying for a service.

(is this correct??)

No. Network Solutions and VeriSign found out the hard way to the tune of $25,000,000 after fighting this issue for years in the sex.com case. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0115899p.pdf

[Frak]

ICANN caps the ownership to 10 years. You have a year after that to re-register for another 10 years.

How would you like it if everybody could register a domain name forever? There would be a loooot of permanently taken, dead domains.

[orlox]

No. Network Solutions and VeriSign found out the hard way to the tune of $25,000,000 after fighting this issue for years in the sex.com case. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0115899p.pdf

In what way that case makes what I mentioned wrong? I'm not very familiar with the case (and I'm not in the mood of reading 22 pages from an appeal document :P).

[HappinessNow]

Hi all,

Where is the official place to permanently buy away a domain name? And how much would this cost, usually?

http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

Use Google's partner eNom and NOT godaddy, you can buy the domain for $10 a year and have it automatically renew each year with your credit card. This is as close to permanent that I know, at least until you die (or get bad credit and lose your credit card) you could set up a foundation to keep renewing after you have passed away but the permanence is only as long as the foundation as an entity exist and the subsequent viability for said foundation.

[ganesh1]

You cannot buy a domain permanently. But you have to renew
it for an amount every year. You can buy/register the domain
at the site It provides a cheap and reliable
registration service. It provides domain with .com extension
at a promotional price of $6/year.:p

[overdrank]

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