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com net org The root is owned by “ICANN”, a Yankee corporation formed for the
purpose, and Domain Registrars assign people portions of the namespace
below “TLDs” for a fee. For instance “lainchan.org” is really
“.”->”org”->”lainchan” . Each of these parts of the namespace has
a set of “authoritative” DNS servers which own a portion of the
namespace and respond to requests for their portion.