Registry profile

Verisign

Verisign operates the shared registry infrastructure behind .com and .net. Registrars sell and manage individual registrations for customers; the registry maintains the authoritative database for its top-level domains.

Registry vs registrar

What Verisign does

A registry operator maintains the authoritative registration database and technical services for a top-level domain. It is not the storefront where most customers buy a domain.

Registry pages on FlashDomains

.com .net