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

[Clint Ecker]

ellipse.to also offers free DNS services.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@csociety.purdue.edu
> [mailto:plug-admin@csociety.purdue.edu]On Behalf Of Josh Guffin
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:08 PM
> To: Purdue Linux Users' Group
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] yet another question about domain names...
>
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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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