Domain register, but no hosting
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Name: David8F
Date: June 29, 2006 at 07:47:01 Pacific
Subject: Domain register, but no hostingOS: Win MECPU/Ram: P4 2.4Ghz, 728MB RAM |
Comment: Hello,
I'm a little confused about this topic. If you go to this website:
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
It advertises Domain registration for only 9.95 per year. But what does that actually mean? I have a website built and ready to go, I was just shopping around for the cheapest way to put it on the www. I was considering doing it myself, but reading other forums, people say you should stay away from that. But I'd like to do that if I had a decent tutorial about it. Or is this $10/year option good at all? Thanks so much.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Laler
Date: June 29, 2006 at 08:02:18 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I was considering doing it myself, but reading other forums, people say you should stay away from that Yes you should stay away from that, unless it is for educational purpose, or it's just a 'testing site' or somekind. You need domain name and hosting. Domain name is the "Domain Name", Hosting is the server where you put your files on. So that Yahoo! offers only the Domain Name part.
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Response Number 2
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Name: David8F
Date: July 4, 2006 at 07:48:16 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)But I am willing to use my own server. I have Windows Server 2003. I would just like to know if I "buy" my domain name from yahoo, then how do people (i.e people's computer's) know that www.mysite.com points to my server? Is it as simple as yahoo taking my IP address and logging it under www.mysite.com sort of thing? Then when people access www.mysite.com, yahoo points them to my server's IP?? Correct?
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Response Number 3
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Name: tonysathre
Date: July 11, 2006 at 13:03:30 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Kinda. Yahoo! will contact the registrar's and they will add it to there list of Domain Names. I have NOT lost my mind — I have it backed up on tape somewhere
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