http://www.register.com
allows you to add tertiary domains at no cost with a simple web page
interface. That's how
http://techref.massmind.org
is going to the current server at 204.210.50.240 and
http://www.massmind.org
is going to the new server at 63.200.216.146 (which will just display a
"Welcome to magicland" message at this point)

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http://techref.massmind.org NEW! FINALLY A REAL NAME!
Members can add private/public comments/pages ($0 TANSTAAFL web hosting)


-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of James Cameron
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 15:15
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: hot gossip [OT]


On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 02:16:35PM +0000, Mike Harrison wrote:
> Also I believe if you run a domain name server, you can register
> domains very cheaply.

No, not really, but yet partially true.

If you own a domain, example.com, and you decide to run a domain name
server yourself rather than have another company run it for you, then
you can add subdomains at zero cost.  quozl.example.com and so on.

If you have outsourced your domain name server to a supplier, then of
course they might want to be paid for the addition of subdomains.

You can't just run a domain name server in order to register domains,
because you need a domain to start with.

The trick to remember is that a domain has to live somewhere on a domain
name server.  Such a server has to be perpetually available if you want
the domain name to actually work.

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James Cameron   mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org   http://quozl.us.netrek.org/