Who owns domain names?

www.godaddy.com is a registrar website that you can buy websites from you need a domain name so that there is an address for people to type in it is the address that the website is at on the internet. Kinda of like where your house in in the World, someone needs to type an address into google maps to find your house, someone needs to type an address into a browser to find your web site.

As you may know a domain name is just a name, not a real website. If you are going to create your website: 1- Buy a domain name. 2- Buy a web hosting service to provide your online space and enable you to get your website online at your purchased domain name.

If you want to start your website I recommend purchase your domain and hosting together. In this way it is possible to get your domain for free. Some hosting services offer this gift today.

One of these services is reachable at: http://bluehost-service.atspace.com/ . Their service is really great and easy to use. This company offers "Free Site Builder" that helps you build your web pages without difficulty if you are not skilled in using any website creating program. (WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get).

When you buy and register a domain name, you become the entitled owner to that domain name, it's yours so you own it but for the given duration that you register the name.

For instance if you register the domain name for one year, you will own it for a year until you renew it. If you fail to renew the domain name, it is no longer yours, someone else can claim rights to it and be able to renew and register it for the duration they so wish to which is normally at most 10 years.