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Who Owns Rights to a Domain Name?
Domain names are used as addresses on the Internet via “name servers” under the domain name system (DNS). A domain name is “example” in the URL “www.example.com.” For generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .net, .org, and the like, domain registrations occur through various individual registrars on essentially a first-come, first-served basis—country-code top-level domains
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