If I wish to purchase my own domain name extension, which company would I need to talk to?

Question

For example, there are .com .net .org .gov etc etc etc

If I wish to purchase my own unique one, can that be done? If so how?

Answer 1

You mean like you want to create your own extension like .me? You can very well create one yourself.

However, you'll have to talk to the powers-that-be in order for them to possibly allow your extension to be "broadcast" to the entire internet. As one person said, that's ICANN (www.icann.org).

Unfortunately it's a time and cost prohibitive venture, I'll tell you that. And you've NO guarantees you'll get what you want.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure http://www.icann.org/ is the main company that would deal with this. Or it may be: http://www.iana.org/

Good Luck

Answer 3

one of the best and the cheapest is, godaddy.com