Getting Started
2 Things First: When someone wants to create a new domain, he or she
has to do two things:
1) Find a name server for the domain name to reside on.
2) Register the domain name.
Technically, a name server handles Internet requests for the domain name. There are
two ways to get a name server for your domain name:
--You can create and administer it yourself.
--Select a Hosting Company such as Netsouth to acquire the domain name for you.
Domain Name Registration: You can pay an ISP or a hosting company such
as Netsouth to handle it for you.
If you select Netsouth for this service, we go through the registration process
with a company that does domain name registration (examples: register.com,
verio.com, networksolutions.com). We can create an "under construction page"
while the site development in on-going. Periodically, the COM, ORG, NET, etc.
name servers get updates with the newest IP address information. At the
point that the propagation of your domain name is completed, a domain exists
and people can go see the "under construction" page.
Domain Name/Virtual Address: A domain name is a virtual address on
the Internet for any organization or entity. A domain is defined as a group
of networked computers (servers) that represent an organization and provide
network services; however, several domains could reside on one server, in
dedicated space provided by a Web hosting company such as Netsouth. To the
Internet user, a domain appears as space on one server, regardless of its
implementation.
How Domain Names are Identified: Domains are identified by their
familiar Internet URL (uniform resource locator) addresses. Syntactically,
a domain name is a string of names or words separated by periods. For example,
www.ncsnet.com is the name of the domain where Netsouth's information
resides on its servers.
