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Registry

Organization that manages the centralized database of domain names registered in a TLD zone.

It is the authoritative source of information, which updates whois and root nameservers for the TLD with the content of its database.

Registries for each TLD are:

• .COM and .NET: Verisign
• .ORG: Public Interest Registry (PIR)
• .BIZ: Neulevel
• .INFO: Afilias
• .NAME: Global Name Registry (GNR)
• .BE: DNSBE
• .FR: AFNIC
• .EU: EURid

Each TLD has its own policies and procedures. This structure has clients called 'registrars', which manage domain names for their customers.

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