Independent domain registries allocate domain names in a subset of the Domain Name System under a top-level or lower-level domain which is properly registered with an ICANN-accredited registrar. These registries offer lower-level domains within their name space to the public. Most of the independent domain registries operate based on an ISO 3166-1 name that is a subdomain of a higher-level domain.
Some of these registries combine the domain registry and the domain registrar functions in the administration structure, while others distribute domains via third-party registrars.
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—Women’s Liberation Workshop, Students for a Democratic Society, Radical political/social activist organization. “Liberation of Women,” in New Left Notes (July 10, 1967)
“You are the harvest and not the reaper
And of your domain another is the keeper.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)