A Registrar is an organization or company that is either authorized by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers, an organization dedicated to Internet governance) to provide reginregistration services for all the .net, .org and .com global Top-Level Domain names, or is authorized by its respective government to register . A registrar must also be authorized by the proper registry to act as an agent of the registry to process domain name registration, where the agent is not a reseller. The registrar also has the responsibility to create and maintain a WHOIS database containing contact information associated with the domain name.