[PLUG] yet another question about domain names...

[Josh Guffin]

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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Sumanth Peddamatham wrote:

> discountdomainregistry seems really tempting.  so, if i set it up to forward
> the request to a server set up at my purdue ip addy, will the browser show
> www.FOOBAR.com in the browser url bar?  if so, i'm set.  with
> discountdomain... i can set up a ftp.FOOBAR.com which will forward to my ip
> addy too i assume.  am i thinking correctly?  thanks for all the help.
>
> sumanth p.

what you may want to do is go to ghandi (http://gandi.net/) and get a
domain for 12 euro (about 11 bucks) a year.  then, use centralinfo.net
(www.centralinfo.net) for DNS.  you get 40 dns entries, for things like
foo.whatever.com, mail.whatever.com, etc.  but, you can always put
*.whatever.com for one of the entries to forward everything other than the
specified subdomains to a single server.

centralinfo's website seems to be down right now, but they are free, and
it's extremely easy to change your DNS records.

there are other free dns places too.  i would stay away from
granitecanyon.com though, they are dieing a slow death... they don't
update their records anymore.

good luck

josh
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