[wplug] domain question

[Michael Semcheski]

A couple of things about domain registration:

1) If you register a domain for a year, and after a year you don't
renew it, you can kiss it good bye.  People snap up expiring domains
and setup add aggregator sites.  Its pretty annoying.  So if you
register a domain, plan on keeping it registered in perpetuity.

2) Registration essentially allows you to say which DNS servers are
the authoritative ones for your domain.  Don't assume you are getting
someone to answer DNS queries for your domain by registering a name.



On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Zach Uram <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to get my own domain but I've never done it before. I guess I
> go find a domain registrar and pay around $20 and the domain is mine
> for a year. So once I have the domain how do I set it up so that if
> someone goes to www.mydomain.org it will automatically redirect them
> to http://my-public-ip and I want the URL bar to only show
> "www.mydomain.org" and never the IP of my webserver. Will I have to
> run my own DNS servers? Never did that either. Also what if my machine
> goes down (I run low end SDSL, power outage or whatever reason), how
> can I set up the domain so that if my IP is down it will automatically
> send them somewhere else such as http://my-backup-ip but still show
> "www.mydomain.org" ? Running Ubuntu. Later I would like to add mail
> services but for now I'm just worried about setting up a domain for a
> web presence.
>
> Zach
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