Where did you register your domain?

[eyor]

I know there have been topics about this in the past, but they have since disappeared, and there are dozens of new places to register now. Where would you reccomend?
I don't need hosting, as I believe my ISP will provide that.
Thanks

 

[eyor]

What do you think of getadomain.com?

 

[eyor]

I also have another question: How does web site hosting work? Do you tell the host what domain name you are going to register and they enter it in and give you a DNS number?
Thanks

 

[BDawg]

This might be better in networking, but I'll take a stab.

I regiestered my domain, centraldogma.org at register.com. The have a great set of domian hosting tools for the domain admin. Plus, they'll do the DNS for free.

The way domain hosting works:

1. You register a domain.

2. You tell the DNS servers (whether through your ISP, registration site, or personal server) what IPs coorespond to each system (eg. www, mail, ftp, etc). This takes 24-48 hours to trickle to the master servers (.org, .edu., com, etc)

3. Somewhere in your personal web/mail servers, you set up the correct IP and respond names. Such as my webserver responds to www.centraldogma.org and my mailserver responds to centraldogma.org and mail.centraldogma.org.

Does this make sense? If not, I'll try to clarify.

 

[eyor]

>>This might be better in networking, but I'll take a stab.<<

Sorry, the networking forum always seems kind of desolate.

>>I regiestered my domain, centraldogma.org at register.com. The have a great set of domian hosting tools for the domain admin. Plus, they'll do the DNS for free.<<

I thought the $19 was kind of steep. What do you mean hosting tools? how much does their hosting cost?

>>The way domain hosting works:

1. You register a domain.<<

Before getting hosting? Like parking a domain?

>>2. You tell the DNS servers (whether through your ISP, registration site, or personal server) what IPs coorespond to each system (eg. www, mail, ftp, etc). This takes 24-48 hours to trickle to the master servers (.org, .edu., com, etc)<<

Where do these IPs come from? And what do you mean by &quot;tell the DNS servers&quot;?

>>3. Somewhere in your personal web/mail servers, you set up the correct IP and respond names. Such as my webserver responds to www.centraldogma.org and my mailserver responds to centraldogma.org and mail.centraldogma.org.<<

What personal web/mail servers? I don't think I need mail.

>>Does this make sense? If not, I'll try to clarify.<<

Some of it makes sense, maybe you could clarify a tad. I am new to this. Thanks for responding though, I don't want my domain stolen because I can't figure out how to register it, lol.

 

[BDawg]

>>Before getting hosting? Like parking a domain?

You can regiser a domain without using it...kinda like a land claim

>>Where do these IPs come from? And what do you mean by &quot;tell the DNS servers&quot;?

You get the IPs from your service providers. Static IPs (ones that don't change from login to login usually come with DSL lines, and most providers allow you to purchase more.

>>What personal web/mail servers? I don't think I need mail.

I mean the actual servers. I have my own. But, you can have a company do the hosting for you. My line provider wanted way too much money, so I said, &quot;screw you, I'll make my own servers.&quot;

I'm not sure of names of hosting companies. I have a friend who does his domain through a company, I'll ask him when he gets home from T-giving.

If all you care about is owning the rights to a domain name, go ahead and register it. You don't have to be actively using it.

The reason I like register.com is because they give you a lot of tools for IP registration, mailbox (mx), DNS, web, and FTP setup. It makes the job of the sysadmin a bit easier.

If you're just going to register the name to obtain the rights, you don't need to worry about that.

 

[eyor]

>>You can regiser a domain without using it...kinda like a land claim

I think getadomain.com charges extra for doing that.

>>You get the IPs from your service providers. Static IPs (ones that don't change from login to >>login usually come with DSL lines, and most providers allow you to purchase more.

You mean from your ISP? I'm still confused about this part... Where do I get this IP? My connection right now is DHCP, I think, so I don't have a permanent IP.

>>I mean the actual servers. I have my own. But, you can have a company do the hosting for you. >>My line provider wanted way too much money, so I said, &quot;screw you, I'll make my own servers.&quot;

And in this case I would use my ISP's servers for free?

>>I'm not sure of names of hosting companies. I have a friend who does his domain through a >>company, I'll ask him when he gets home from T-giving.

Like I said, my ISP claims to host websites for free, but I don't think they know what they're talking about.

>>If all you care about is owning the rights to a domain name, go ahead and register it. You >>don't have to be actively using it.

But I do want to set up a website on it.

>>The reason I like register.com is because they give you a lot of tools for IP registration, >>mailbox (mx), DNS, web, and FTP setup. It makes the job of the sysadmin a bit easier.

Do you think register.com is worth the extra $9?

>>If you're just going to register the name to obtain the rights, you don't need to worry about >>that.

Once again, I have a website I plan on putting up.
Thanks for the info, it is very helpful. Maybe I will go to register.com. They seem more trustworthy, too. Thanks for helping me out!

 

[Radboy]

See here &amp; here.

This is also good.

 

[eyor]

Thanks radboy, but it looks like those are mostly austrailian or something...

 

[Stylewar]

Ive used Verio for my domain registering.....nice guys.....quick response to inquiries....etc...

 

[eyor]

whoa... register.com charges $35! that's expensive! I checked out verio.com. Do you think it is worth the $7 extra over getadomain.com?
thanks

 

[Radboy]

Austalian?

Domain Discover is in San Diego .. right down the road.

 

[eyor]

oh, sorry. I guess they are from all over the world; germany, sweden, korea, france, australia, etc...

 

[Paladinexe]

Most of the ISP's I have used offer free webspace but I have not noticed any offers to host domains for free. Possibly they refer to offering service to a domain already registered. Dunno.

 

[HellRaven]

yeah, I think your confused Eyor.

Are you sure that your ISP isn't just giving you free webspace? that is what most ISP's do. They give you 15mb of free space. You don't register a domain for that, it is hosted by the ISP. For example, I join thisoneisp.com They tell me I can host a site up to 15mb on their server. They set up an account on their servers and I upload my site. Now people can see my page at users.thisonisp.com/raven.

If you register a domain then you have to get a company to host your site. There are some free hosting companies, they require you to have pop-up ads or banners. They also usually have sub-par customer service and performance, but they are free of course.

There are more companies that do the regular pay for hosting deal than one could possibly count.

One example I will give is a nice company my friends site is hosted on, Halfpricehosting

They have a number of different plans listed here . All have a $25 or higher set up fee and they say all the plans have unrestricted monthly data transfer (some places restrict how much info can be downloaded from your hosted site). The basic one is $100 a year with no option for monthly billing. Then a webmaster plan for $15 a month with a few more features. It keeps going with higher prices for more features like webstats, asp extensions, cgi folder, database support, etc.

 

[fake]

dotster.com

 

[pg22]

Why not just Networksolutions.com? Isn't that where everything goes in the end anyways?

 

[eyor]

d'oh! I think you might be right! It just says that web hosting is included in the monthly rate, I suppose I misinterpreted that, and the people answering the email don't know jack about anything... ah, well...
Does anyone know of a free webhost that is good? Thanks
btw, in the end I went with dotster! I thought I could trust them.

 

[dwn]

Hello,

I don't really post too much, so forgive me if this is old news or something.

I've used both www.brinkster.com and www.cfm-resources.com as free hosts.

They are both pretty good, at least for me. I like them because they give you around 25-30MB of webspace with no ads at all. I use them for their asp capability. I think brinkster.com says you are not allowed to place paid advertisments (ones that you get money from) on your site though, so if you are going to do that, you might want to go with the other one. Oh and cfm-resources.com gives you ftp access, which makes for *much* easier uploads. I like cfm-resources.com better out of the two. So there you go, if you're still looking.

I'm not saying they're the best or anything, but they're the best I know of for free.

D

 

[eyor]

Wow, thanks for responding. Do these sites host domain names? How reliable are they? Thanks

 

[GrAmBo]

if you register with domainzero.com .. and choose a hosting package .. it is 13$ a month .. for 500mbs of space 1 gig of transfer full cgi .. all the happy stuff .. and they reg your domain name for you as well =)

hehe hope im not to late