WHAT IS the DOMAIN

The term domain name has multiple related meanings:

• A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet. These names appear as a component of a Web site's URL, e.g. wikipedia.org. This type of domain name is also called a hostname.
• The product that domain name registrars provide to their customers. These names are often called registered domain names.
• Names used for other purposes in the Domain Name System (DNS), for example the special name which follows the @ sign in an email address, or the Top-level domain names like .com, or the names used by the Session Initiation Protocol (VoIP), or DomainKeys.
• They are sometimes colloquially (and incorrectly) referred to by marketers as "web addresses".

This article will primarily discuss registered domain names. See the Domain Name System article for technical discussions about general domain names and the hostname article for further information about the most common type of domain name.

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source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name

WHAT IS the DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM

On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) associates various sorts of information with so-called domain names; most importantly, it serves as the "phone book" for the Internet by translating human-readable computer hostnames, e.g. en.wikipedia.org, into the IP addresses, e.g. 66.230.200.100, that networking equipment needs for delivering information. It also stores other information such as the list of mail exchange servers that accept email for a given domain. In providing a worldwide keyword-based redirection service, the Domain Name System is an essential component of contemporary Internet use.

Uses

The most basic use of DNS is to translate hostnames to IP addresses. It is in very simple terms like a phone book. For example, if you want to know the internet address of en.wikipedia.org, the Domain Name System can be used to tell you it is 145.97.39.155. DNS also has other important uses.

Preeminently, DNS makes it possible to assign Internet destinations to the human organization or concern they represent, independently of the physical routing hierarchy represented by the numerical IP address. Because of this, hyperlinks and Internet contact information can remain the same, whatever the current IP routing arrangements may be, and can take a human-readable form (such as "wikipedia.org") which is rather easier to remember than an IP address (such as 66.230.200.100). People take advantage of this when they recite meaningful URLs and e-mail addresses without caring how the machine will actually locate them.

The Domain Name System (DNS) distributes the responsibility for assigning domain names and mapping them to IP networks by allowing an authoritative server for each domain to keep track of its own changes, avoiding the need for a central registrar to be continually consulted and updated.

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source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system

Link to a forum : DNS Hosting > Domain Registration

First comment from this forum :

Jul 6 2005

"It's been months since this message first appeared on EV1's Manage Your Domain page:

Our apologies... EV1Servers' domain registration system is temporarily offline.

What's going on?"

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Link to a forum : Who to go to for web hosting

First comment from this forum :

"I've seen a few threads and posts in this forum where people have asked where to get hosting from, so I thought I'd make this sticky. If you have any recommendations or anti-recommendations as to who to go to (or not go to as the case may be) then this is the place to post about it.

I'll be heavily moderating this thread to make sure it stays on topic, if you want to talk to someone about something to get more details then do it via a PM, and maybe that person could come back and make an amendment to their post if neccessary. Remember, edit your already existing post, don't make a new one.

If I see anyone who's only post is in this thread then I will consider it advertising and delete it, if I see anyone who is obviously pimping their own hosting company then I will delete that.

Make sure that in your post you include details about the host you're talking about, 99.99% uptime and 6 TeraBytes of space for £1.99 per year doesn't count. While the hosting package and price is obviously worth mentioning it's not the be all and end all. Be sure to back up why you think they're good or bad with a short description of why you think that. I don't want to see recommendations for hosts that you're going to try out either, if you personally haven't used them then as a recommendation it doesn't carry much weight.

I'll start the ball rolling with an anti-recomendation, my current host is www.web-hosting.uk.com and they are ... not a good host. Quite often any pages that use ASP (which is pretty much my entire site) will simply stop working and no content will be sent to the browser. All normal .html pages will continue to be sent fine, I'm not sure if PHP pages still work during these "outages" as I've never had any to test. However, they are a pretty cheap UK based host and use the easy to get around helm CMS for their admin panel, so if you're just starting out and don't use a server-side language, they might be worth considering."

see this forum at : http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?s=00d161e6577327d883267418a9b4a412&t=66702

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The First Comments in this forum :

Pissingintowind

Jul 27, 2006

Better than shitting into a fan.

I realized that although I do a lot of web design work, I have no idea how to get the final product online.

How would I register a .com domain and link it to some webspace so that my creation would show up properly with the domain's sub URLs? Are there any goon approved webhosts or registration services I should be using?

How much will it cost yearly to have a relatively low traffic image/flash gallery online?
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AlexDeGruven

Jun 29, 2007

Check SAMart. There's a shitton of hosting offers by goons for goons.
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Pissingintowind

Jul 27, 2006

Well, yes, I've seen those... but are they any good? And what exactly should I be looking for. I need to register a domain name, and provide hosting for it. Do all hosts include a domain registration?

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The First Comments in this forum :

domain registration

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is there a better company to register a domain with.....or is the cheaper the better motto apply??.........

is there a difference between register.com, godaddy.com, internic.ca??

Derek

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I'm with godaddy, recommended.
Nice DNS selection tools

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Hostway is good, I dont really like Godaddy...

123cheapdomains are also pretty good.
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Link to a forum : Is it illegal to register a domain that is very similiar to another company's?

Another ForumThe First Comments in this forum :

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:19 am Post subject: domain registration questions
is it illegal to register a domain that is very similiar to another company's? for example, say i see microsoft.us is available, am i allowed to register that domain? any intellectual property violation, or should Microsoft just cover every available domain if they don't want anyone else using it?

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:
Since Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation, you'd be in violation of the trademark laws. You'd get totally screwed if you tried that. On the other hand, if you notice a company's domain where the name isn't trademarked, go for it

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Link to a forum : Yahoo domain name registration, be careful, you may loose your domain name

First comment from this forum :

"This happened to me last year:

I registed a domain name with yahoo. I paid for 5 years.

After sometime, I bought a hosting plan from yahoo. Since I didn't like the hosting plan, I cancelled the plan.

Know what, yahoo cancelled my domain name also! I lost a domain name for which I had paid for 5 years.

Talked, Shouted, Cried - with yahoo support people! No use! Domain name remained cancelled! I had to pay again to get back the domain.

(Their stupid logic: They call a hosting plan as an upgrade of the domain plan. When you buy hosting, you upgrade domain name. So when you cancel hosting plan later, according to them, you cancel not only the hosting plan, but also the domain name associated with it)

Didn't expect such an idotic logic from a company like Yahoo."

see this forum at : http://www.v7n.com/forums/domain-name-forum/60938-yahoo-domain-name-registration-careful-you-may-loose-your-domain-name.html

Link to a forum : Check out Net Registry

The First Comments in this forum :

judyn

12-02-2003, 11:57 AM

Check out Net Registry
www.netregistry.com
for the cheapest rate I have found
$66 Australian for a .com.au address for 2 years
8)

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judyn

01-13-2004, 10:23 AM

:(
Gee, I thought some Aussie people would take this on!
A lot of lookers but no reply.
I thought it was a good deal- have all of you found a better one?

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geekgirl

01-22-2004, 10:25 PM

Not sure how Ozzy pounds work out with GBP's. I use www.domainbuster.co.uk £30 for domain name, 50 meg of webspace, webforwarding for 2 years.

Cheers

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Foos Gold

02-02-2004, 07:55 PM

I use Netrillium (http://netrillium.com) - prices start from $24/£13 per year for 60mb hosting, plus a free .com or .org domain if you pay for a year up front. This includes excellent support, use of Fantastico to upload scripts trouble-free, and unlimited MySQL databases.

I am in love with Netrillium!

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