Meanings of domain name registrar in English

The whois command is used to obtain domain name registrar information:

Although they used a private domain name registrar, the company cooperated with investigators.

Baltimore Technologies has signed a digital security pact with the second largest Web domain name registrar - Register.com.

Mr Timimi said there have "always been rumours within the industry that Google was a domain name registrar".

Network Solutions spokeswoman Sheryl Regan said the domain name registrar routinely shuts down contested domain names when court orders are issued.

ENom, the world's second-largest domain name registrar, came under fire last week in a report from HostExploit, a volunteer-run anti-malware research group.

According to HostExploit, eNom is host to an unusually large number of malicious websites and is a preferred domain name registrar for pharmaceutical spammers.

Domain name registrar Network Solutions has stepped into the fray and angry observers are threatening electronic terrorism.

Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com will stop registering .cn domains in China after the country's government demanded information on previously registered domain names.