This is a tricky question to ask in writing!
I’m curious: when you buy a domain name from a company, how did they acquire the rights to that domain in the first place?
The individual/ organisation who, way back when, acquired (for example) cocacola.com, did they create/ generate that URL (thereby owning it) or did they buy it from someone else? If they bought it from someone else, how did *that* someone else acquire the domain name??
So, can I come up with a URL of my own without paying for it? I don’t see why I should have to pay an organisation for www..com/ ~.net/ ~.co.uk, because I don’t understand what they have done in order to legitmately charge me.
I feel like this is a “what came first, the chicken or the egg?” question, but if anyone can shed some light, that would be cool. Thanks!