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Nov 12 2010, 10:58 am
Is it possible to BUY a domain...repeat BUY not RENT , BUY a domain that will be mine till the end of time??
Nov 12 2010, 11:52 am
No. You can buy multiple ten-year extensions and essentially have it last forever.
Nov 12 2010, 3:48 pm
In response to Nadrew
Nadrew wrote:
No. You can buy multiple ten-year extensions and essentially have it last forever.

That is a third party service by the registrar however. If that registrar were to shutdown, you would lose any time paid for after the current 10 year block.
Nov 12 2010, 6:54 pm
In response to Xioden
If it's ICANN accredited the domain and time paid will be transferred elsewhere. Once that expiration date is registered it's set.
Nov 13 2010, 3:24 am
In response to Nadrew
Nadrew wrote:
If it's ICANN accredited the domain and time paid will be transferred elsewhere. Once that expiration date is registered it's set.

ICANN will only register a domain for up to 10 years. Anything beyond that is the registrar itself auto-renewing the domain for the customer.
Nov 17 2010, 8:35 am
In response to Nadrew
why isn't possible to buy a domain?
Nov 17 2010, 9:48 am
In response to Biond_coder
Because a domain name is just a mapping in the DNS root servers, and you only have such a mapping so long as the operators of the physical DNS root servers decide you can have a mapping. It's a service, not a product.

These people could potentially sell lifetime leases, but they don't for practicality reasons. There are like 6 billion of us on this planet, even if we each wanted one domain, that's a lot of domains.

I got some of my current domains after the lease expired. Presumably the person leasing it didn't renew because their original purpose was no longer relevant. I've very glad I could get awesomeware.org, instead of having to settle for awesome1987ware1337.org. This expiry represents the majority of expiry cases I would presume, with very few being "grabs" of currently used domains.