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I'm an 29 year old guy.I'll always do my best to give well considered and sincere advice - give me your best shot. P.S. Don't be afraid to ask me private questions, I rarely spend a lot of time answering non-private questions.
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I just wanted to know who "owns" the internet. I want to claim a domain (my name) which no one has bought or uses yet, but every time i look into it through google they say "buy this domain" or "this domain is not taken yet buy it!" who the hell has a monopoly over the internet isn't it supposed to be open territory... seriously it's equivalent to someone owning all of earth..... is there a way around it?? for me to get the website which i believe should be mine since its MY NAME??
The internet is a network. A network is not a physical thing, but data, and the data is owned by the people sending and receiving it.
Domains are a place to host a page of data for other people to volunteer to receive by looking at the page.
The network is made up of servers and users. You are a user, and the server communicates with other servers, in order to retrieve data from other users, that you request.
The reason you have to "buy" a domain name, is that it doesn't exist at the moment. The way to make it exist in relation to other users is to register it with a server, so that other servers are notified of it, and find it when users search for it. The server wants money for that.
You need to look up servers, and investigate paying them to host your domain name. You are not paying for the name, you are paying them for the service of directing people to your webpage, when other servers ask about it. They will also charge you for the data that people download from your website, and possibly data you upload to it, or changes you make to it will cost too.
Alternative:
There are some software packages around the place that will allow you to run a server from your home computer, using your personal internet connection. Any traffic on your web-page would be going through your modem/router, so it would affect your ability to use the internet. Generally that kind of software is only used for testing web-pages, but some people host small personal webpages on a permanent basis.
-K
(Rating: 5) ...makes sense... but stilll a rip off...