Editing Domain name registry (section)

== Operation ==
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Some name registries are government departments (e.g., the registry for India ''gov.in''). Some are co-operatives of Internet service providers (such as [[DENIC]]) or not-for profit companies (such as [[Nominet UK]]). Others operate as commercial organizations, such as the US registry (''nic.us'').

The allocated and assigned domain names are made available by registries by use of the [[WHOIS]] or its successor [[Registration Data Access Protocol]] and via their [[domain name server]]s.

Some registries sell the names directly, and others rely on separate entities to sell them. For example, names in the [[.com]] top-level domains are in some sense sold "wholesale" at a regulated price by [[VeriSign]], and individual [[domain name registrar]]s sell names "retail" to businesses and consumers.