onion services address all these problems through clever cryptography and a few tricks. Your server is always easily identifiable through your domain, which makes it easy to censor or confiscate your service. They can use this to phish passwords and other privileged information from your users. If ICANN take a disliking to you, for any reason, they can simply take away your domain and give it to someone else.Īn attacker can get access to your account with the registrar and point it at their own server.
Once you registered your own domain with a registrar (or even a top level domain with ICANN), you can point this domain to the IP address of your website using a nameserver.įor a free and open internet, this creates various problems. When you purchase a domain name, such as, you are free to create subdomains and point them at separate servers, (e.g., or ). The part before the dot, on the left of the domain, is the subdomain. If you want to create your own top-level domain, you will have to submit your proposal and will likely pay a lot of money for it. These top level domains are assigned by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Recently companies have even been able to register their own top-level domains, like “.apple”. It is often the code of a country, but some generic top level domains like “.website” also exist. The part after the dot on the right of the domain, like “.com” or “.ca”, is called the top-level domain. On the internet, as most people use it, a domain name (e.g., ) is registered through a registrar.
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