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moron4hire • yesterday at 2:21 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

No, I definitely mean the entity in charge of maintaining the register, not the location in which the register is kept.


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duskwuff • yesterday at 5:35 PM

In domain registration parlance, that is the registry (e.g. Verisign for .com). A registrar is one of the companies which intermediates between the registry and the users who obtain domain registrations (e.g. GoDaddy).