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

[Josh Guffin]

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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Josh Guffin wrote:

> 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

duh, sorry the address for centralinfo is http://centralinfo.net

josh


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