Domain FAQ
The unique name that identifies an Internet site. On the Web, the domain name is the part of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that tells a domain name server where to forward a request for a Web page. For example, the domain name of this web site is drugpolicycentral.com www.drugpolicycentral.com/ A domain name must be registered with an official registery site before the name can be used. DPC clients may register their own domains, or have DPC register it. A registRAR is an organization that sells domain registrations. Usually registrars have a contract with a registry, and often are certified by an organization. Some Registrars use resellers (like OpenSRS), so it may be hard to know who the registrar is. Some registrys sell direct, so the registrar and the registry may be the same organization. What is a domain registry?A registry is the single organization that co-ordinates the domain registrations for a given top level domain (e.g. .com, .ca, or .info). Generally, the organization that wants to register a domain ( which might be an individual), contacts a registrar or visits a registrar's website, requests a particular domain name, provides some contact information, provides some other information (which may include a chosen password, and/or DNS servers, and usually payment information like a credit card number). For most domains, much of the contact information provided during the registration process is put into a public whois record. They are the people you contact if you have questions about the domain or trouble accessing it. If you mean setup a web page at your domain name, or enable e-mail addresses at your domain name, most people simply hire a hosting service (like DPC) to look after their needs, which means you simply need to get the DNS servers for the domain set to the DNS servers that the hosting service operates, and they do everything else. Generally, you go to the website of the registrar you registered the domain with. If you are comfortable adding and configuring new software, and you have a computer connected full time to the internet, then the answer is probably "yes!" Of course, there are many good reasons to use a competent professional hosting service, but for casual or experimental use, a home computer can do fine. (Also, there are various free services on the net. You may be able to combine free dns with free webspace.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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