Re: UKNM: New subject - Can you advise?

[James Cronin]

[Sam says: thanks to everyone for all the domain name registration help, that's probably covered off now, further responses to Amanda directly, cheers.

]


> Amanda,

> 

> Nominet charge �99 per domain, �79 if you buy over 5


but they won't host it for you.

> http://www.nominet.co.uk



http://www.nominet.org.uk/ actually - or www.nic.uk

(I remember when I used to own nominet.co.uk :)


There are more elements to this than just the name though...


You need to pay:


i) for a naming authority to give you the name - this is either nominet

or the Internic (or various other country level nic's (nominet if it

ends in .uk and internic for non-country-specifics like .com, .org,

.gov, ....)


ii) for someone to provide the DNS for your domain (ie run the computer

that actually handles the lookups everytime someone says where's


www.london-electricity.co.uk and it says, ahh you want 195.40.6.20

or whatever...) This is often called handling the delegation.


iii) for the services that you want to run from it. ie. someone to

make your mail@thedomain work and someone to give you webspace if

you want http://www.thedomain/ the work.


You can pay people like netnames to act as an agent for you to do

i and ii together, but it's a lot cheaper to do it yourself.


Hope this makes things a little clearer...


James.

xx


> Regards

> 

> Anil

>

aniloyster [dot] co [dot] uk

> 

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Amanda Christie <mailamandayahoo [dot] com>

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com <uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com>

> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 3:43 PM

> Subject: UKNM: New subject - Can you advise?

> 

> >I'm confused about buying/getting my domain name.  I've seen so many

> >offers.  Can you recommend/advise where to get it, and how much I

> >should pay.

> >

> >Okay, so I'm not v.up to date - so don't all shout at me at once!

> >

> >Also I would be interested to hear views (I'm not the person who

> >should be offended so fire away) on.....

> >

> >

> >www.london-electricity.co.uk

> >

> >Thanks in advance.

> >

> >AC

> >

> >==

> >Amanda Christie

> >Object Marketing Ltd

> >0181 932 5250