How are .onion domains purchased, sold and managed?

[mrsir2009]

Most standard domains can be purchased through domain sellers such as GoDaddy, but obviously some cannot be purchased this way: .mil, .gov, .edu and .onion. Now the former three are obviously managed by the government, but how are .onion domains managed, bought and sold? They are not used only by authorities, so who manages the sales of them?

Thank you very much

 

[OutThere]

.onion isn't a real top-level domain, it's used for addresses within the Tor proxy system.

 

[mrsir2009]

.onion isn't a real top-level domain, it's used for addresses within the Tor proxy system.

Ah, I see - So all the websites on the Tor network automatically end with ".onion", so the address of a webpage on the Tor network is just the numbers/letters before the ".onion" part?