DNS Control Support

A domain is simply the name you type into a web browser to access a website. The part of the name to the far right, for example .com, .org or .dk is known as the top level domain (TLD) while the part before that is the second level domain (SLD). So for bobpeers.com, .com is the TLD and bobpeers is the SLD.

Technically you don't buy a domain, you rent it on a yearly basis, but once you do this you can renew every year and it will always be yours. Many companies are able to sell domain names, these are called registrars, and once bought you can choose to 'park' your domain name with them so you can manage your domain name setting (DNS) from the same site you bought the domain. DNS is the system that translates domain names into the numerical computer names called IP (internet protocol) addresses, so when you type www.bbc.co.uk into a browser the program looks up the actual IP address of the server that has the pages, which in this case is 212.58.224.36. If you type http://212.58.224.36/ you will arrive at the same site, the homepage of BBC news.

First you need to buy a domain name. These are very cheap these days but it depends on which TLD you wish to buy and where you get it from. I bought bobpeers.com from namecheap for $8.88 but another cheap company is GoDaddy. If you don't have, or don't need a website, and maybe only want to receive email on you own domain then you just need to set up mail forwarding with the registrar. This is done by logging in to the registrars site and adding a mail forward. This means that emails sent to something@example.tld will be forwarded to your normal email address. I recommend that you at least add a 'catchall' option, this is done by adding a * (wild card) address that forwards to your email address. This means that an email sent to any address where the domain part is your domain will be forwarded to you. Once the domain is bought you need a place to host the website, most of the domain sellers also have hosting but again this is an area where prices vary enormously and it's easy to pay $10 per month for a basic site without PHP or databases. You might also check to see whether any web space is given to you by your ISP as part of your package.I personally use vonetwork, it's probably not as fast as some providers and maybe reliability is not up to enterprise standards, however the basic plan costs $12.95 per year including 100Mb of server space, 1Gb per month bandwidth, PHP, MySQL and POP3 email accounts. You can also choose between Linux and Windows hosting.

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