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Date:	Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:51:32 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Domain registration

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Larry Tawa wrote:
>
> what is the "actual" cost per year
> for registering a single domain name?

$8.95/year is the best price I've found for *one* year. Verisign is
something like $35/year for the same service. :)

There are dozens of registrars, and they're free to charge whatever they
want.

> If I run the domain name from my home system are their
> any other additional costs that I need to to know about?

You need DNS service so anybody in the world can look you up and find
out what your IP address is. Then you need a fixed IP address (there
are ways to use a changing IP address if you don't want to pay for a
fixed IP address). Then you need your equipment on 24x7.

Doesn't worldnet.att.net give you a "free" web space, typically 10MB or
so? You can use _that_ space for your web site and use your domain name
to refer to it. Then you don't need to have your home equipment on all
the time and you don't need a fixed IP address.

> This would be my first serious attempt
> at creating my own mail server.

I use _two_ mail servers, an "incoming" mail server and an "outgoing"
mail server. The "incoming" mail server is currently at Verizon.net and
I use my DNS service provider (ZoneEdit) to translate my "peterskye.com"
and other domain names to that address -- the person who sends the
message to pskye@peterskye.com (or any other name@peterskye.com) never
knows that the message is actually routed to my verizon.net account.
The "outgoing" mail server is sendmail running on my own machine, and I
use it to bypass the verizon.net mail server when I send messages
because Verizon (and Earthlink too, although I think they just changed
their policy this month) don't allow you to send messages through their
email server unless you use *their* domain name rather than your own
domain name.

Summary:
-- 1. For email, first register the domain name(s) that you want, then
go to ZoneEdit and register on their DNS (ZoneEdit is free for small
users) to have all email sent to @larrytawa.com forwarded to
larry.tawa@worldnet.att.net, and people can now email you at your new
domain name. For outgoing mail using "From: larry.tawa@larrytawa.com"
or similar you may have to run sendmail on your machine (although it
only needs to be running when you're actually sending messages; I run it
constantly so I don't have to remember to start and stop it) -- after
you register your domain try sending yourself a message "From:
larry.tawa@larrytawa.com" "To: larry.tawa@worldnet.att.net" and see if
the WorldNet email server will let your message through. I'm running
the original Warp sendmail (version 2.02) but the latest OS/2 version is
8.12.3 or something like that.
-- 2. For web pages, you're probably better off using the free space
that WorldNet probably gives you and redirecting http requests made to
your domain name to that free space. Then you don't have to bother
running your own server. If you want to run your own server anyway,
Apache is good and you'll need DNS service so larrytawa.com points to
your IP address.

- Peter

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