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Registering a Domain on the internet?

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by sudney 1 view

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I graduated college in Computer Systems and networking. But didn't learn anything about domain names on the internet. I have a consumer running a windows200 server on DSL with IIS installed and a email server installed. He wants to be able to type in a web address and get to his windows200 server machine and have a personal email address (username@domain of his chose.com). What kind of prep work do I need to do before I register a domain? How do I go about doing it? He has a permanant ip address.

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by lintadsl

In order to run Web Server, you need a vaild DNS server. Which means a DNS server registered with INTERNIC so web gods know where the DNS server is.

Why need a vaild DNS server? You will know it when you register a domain name with any domain registration web site. Check networksolutions.com site once.
Here is the steps,
1-1. register DNS server (He has a permanant ip address) to Internic.com e.g. common name will be ns1.yourdomain.com, and ns2.yourdomain.com. This will take 3 - 6 days.
1-2. register the domain name you want to any domain registration web site. This will take 3 - 6 days.
2. configure DNS setting on the win2k server.

Since, the server has IIS installed, it should not be a problem with web browsing. Configure correctly.

Regards,
Sunny,
sunnyj@webintra.net

by sabatogz

Ask your ISP, Most large ISP's have DNS server's for there customers to use at little or no charge. Your ISP will then point your domain name you register to your web service public IP address.

1. Call ISP, check for DNS servers.
2. Register Domain name with Verisign (Use DNS from ISP)
3. Get Static IP from ISP.

You will also need a firewall between your clients server and the Internet.

Note: Besure to get all the lastest patches for IIS.

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