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by LIV2 2442 days ago
Yes, registrars have an agreement with the TLDs and have API access that allows them to submit requests for DNS delegation, transfers, registrations, creating glue records etc.

The registrar will send a request to the TLD to essentially ask that they delegate your domain to a specified nameserver which will add records to the TLDs zone for your domain