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 Nov 1 2005, 12:33 AM
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Member [Level 1]  Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 28-October 05 From: mexico Member No.: 13,497  |
after a while of saving money in order to buy my geniune copy of win 2003 i was wondering how could i set up a domain name in win 2003... or i bought the server for nothing?.. do i have to hire a domain name from some company?... how this domain name stuff work
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Nov 1 2005, 01:50 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 516 Joined: 29-April 05 From: Canada Eh?!? Member No.: 6,408 |
Think of a domain like a PO box, you own the house (Win 2003) but the mail man can't find it, or atleast not without complex directions (IP address) so rather you register a PO box at your local postoffice (Domain Registrar) so when every someone sends you a letter it goes to your PO box and you handle it from there. Inorder to have a domain you need to register it at a "Post Office" just search domain registrar in google. you will also need some other backend stuff running on win 2003, I don't know if it comes with it. But my guess is that if you had to ask about this, then you are bitting of more then you can chew, so to speak.
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Nov 1 2005, 03:05 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 702 Joined: 17-February 05 Member No.: 3,817 |
QUOTE(sanbeand @ Nov 1 2005, 12:33 AM) after a while of saving money in order to buy my geniune copy of win 2003 i was wondering how could i set up a domain name in win 2003... or i bought the server for nothing?.. do i have to hire a domain name from some company?... how this domain name stuff work ? any ideas? Does win 2004 means Windows 2003 operating system? Or you have just bought Win 2003 server? Server and domain stuffs are entirely two different things. You may have yourdomains.com which you must register from some companies that register domains for example : register.com, godaddy.com, directnic.com, smallbusiness.yahoo.com and many more other companies. Domain can be hosted in Linux server or windows server. If order to have your own website running on the world of internet, you need domain and host. If you host your website in your own server - your server must have nameserver to which you need to point your domain dns record. QUOTE(sanbeand @ Nov 1 2005, 12:33 AM) or i bought the server for nothing?.. do i have to hire a domain name from some company?... how this domain name stuff work ? any ideas?If you have bought a web server, i didn't buy for nothing. Just register your choice domain and host it in your own server. But I wonder whether you've bought web host server or just local computer server for testing websites locally. |
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Nov 1 2005, 03:15 AM
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Premium Member  Group: Banned Posts: 160 Joined: 10-July 05 From: Bogotá, Colombia, South America. Member No.: 9,238 |
about the applicatios you need to set up your web server you first should think in what you want, and then choose the right webserver application. there are so many soft you coul use and some are free, like iis, or apache, or other payed applications like jsp, macromedia coldfusion,and well, it's up to your needs! good luck!
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Nov 1 2005, 03:20 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,182 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 1,245 |
you should not hire the domain but the only way you could use it is "paying for regitser"this pay is for one year,you would repay for another year.
and i think the domain could not been hired,if you really hired a domain using one year,it's still not yours.just register from enom,godaddy and so on. at win 2003 control panel,you would got the details of how to bind the domain to your server.i'm not used win 2003 for server,as i know the unix system is more safe than windows system specially in server enviorment. thank you. guangdian. |
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 Nov 1 2005, 10:02 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 28-October 05 From: mexico Member No.: 13,497 |
hey guys thanx for reply... all that info rocks! but then if i have to register my domain name with some other guy... how do they do? i mean... i have my win 2003 server running with IIS and other stuff about dns and so on, and maybe they have the same server i have or how these companies work, do they share a super database or something? they are friends with the server in the garage and have a LAN? thats what i would like to know... cos i dont think microsoft pays to eg. godaddy.com for the domain do they?...
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Nov 1 2005, 10:23 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 516 Joined: 29-April 05 From: Canada Eh?!? Member No.: 6,408 |
No you're right microsoft doesn't pay godaddy for their domain. Microsoft (now I'm not certian about this, but it seems like a good guess) has become what you could call their own domain registrar. SO they don't pay anybody, they do however do pay membership fees to icann. You'll notice that the registrats often say something like "plus ICANN registration fee" And yes they do all share databases, that's why when you first registre a name it could take several hours for it to work because all the databases around the world must be made aware of your presence.
By the way ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
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Nov 1 2005, 11:18 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 4-August 05 Member No.: 10,273 |
Visit those sites for more info:
http://www.icann.org and you might find useful: http://www.internic.net/ |
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Nov 2 2005, 12:49 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 28-October 05 From: mexico Member No.: 13,497 |
so what if i want to set up a dedicated server to host domain names?, will i have to pay to ICANN or what?...i was thinking what if i join this organization with my server and start to sell domain names?... (i know this info coul be on the page but some summary would be good)
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