hey you guys, talking about dot com domain registries and server hosting made me want to post what i know and do. it's really easy but like most things you just need someone to show you the way sometimes. with our server we can host several domains, domains and parked all for one monthly fee. permitting you have an income and aren't scared of monthly fees it's all actually pretty cheap and i've been using the system to help my friends host their sites.
okay, here's what we do:
go to www.godaddy.com (or any other registrar you know of or prefer) and do a search for availability on your dot com (it is sometimes hard to find one not already in use). register your domain at godaddy or someplace that will do it for cheap. you pay yearly for the domain name, roughly $10.00 USD per YEAR (cheaper than a post office box).
then we host our files on interxstream (www.interxstream.com). they have packages available for around $10.00 a month but we pay them like $18.75 a month for extra features like backup. they keep our files on two seperate servers in case one goes down, our site stays up and we can still get our email which is important when you get like 200 business emails a day.
so if you do it right, for less than $100.00 a year you can have your own dot com with no ads and a Cpanel with all the goodies. i pay like $70 a year for a post office box and i have two of those, so the cost for our web domains is cheap. all you need is the DNS (Dynamic Name Servers) from whoever you register with, contact your hosting company with these and they should set it up for you.
Shop around some, I'm sure there are better deals out there but always be careful of free. Anything that's free is scary to me.
-Freak
AMD Athlon XP 2700 (2.17GHz @ 333FSB) 1GB DDR333 RAM & 256MB ATI Radeon 9600 & 2x120GB HDDs one EIDE 133 and one SATA 150 on Gigabyte 7VT600 with MS Windows XP Pro
