Best Site to Buy Domain Names?

We used Wix
I didn’t have any part of creating it but we have had no issues

If you are only buying the name it really does not matter where you buy it from. GoDaddy would be fine.

Google Domains will probably be your cheapest option. You can always transfer to your hosting provider later.

But, some hosting providers will give you a free domain registration for a year.

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There may be a waiting period to transfer it over from GoDaddy to something like Squarespace.

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This is the tentative plan. How long may it take?


Thanks to everyone who answered.

I've used GoDaddy for years. Great customer service. I have a lot of domains with them.

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How long may it take?

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Standard is 30 days

Google domains

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Buying a domain from any number of places, what are you actually buying.

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The actual domain like tigerdroppings.com

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If the domain name isn’t already used why can’t you just set it up yourself.

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This is like saying that phone number 800-big-ones is available and just start using it.
You can't.
It must be bought and registered so when someone calls it, the phone companies know who owns it and where to route that call.
Domains work in a similar fashion so when someone goes to a domain, they know where to forward that traffic to in order to reach your website.

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Who are you buying it from?

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You are buying it from whoever your registrar is (network solutions, hover, godaddy, enom, etc). The are setup to sell toplevel domains through [link=(ICANN)]https://www.icann.org/[/link] who controls and maintains most domains databases.

When you setup a website through godaddy or wix, they give you a subdomain to access the site. something like yoursite22.wix.com. Once you buy a normal domain you point it to your webhost and everyone knows to route that domain traffic to your new website.