To its right, select domain category: .com, org, or .net,
then enter your contact and billing information. Based on these data,
the system will generate a domain registration request and submits it
to OpenSRS, a major domain registration company. For more information,
refer to http://www.opensrs.org/faq.shtml.
Transferring Existing Domains
or Registering Nonstandard Domains
To transfer an existing domain or register a nonstandard domain with
your account, use the second form:
If you are creating a regional domain (e.g. your_domain.uk) or
would like to use a different domain registration company, no automation
is provided. Thus, first you need to make sure that you have a valid domain
name. Enter it into the lower box, omitting the www. part.
Following the registration you will get an e-mail notification with the
information to send to your domain name registration company. They will
make appropriate changes on the root DNS servers, and within a couple
of days your domain will be accessible at the new IP address. In the meantime,
your site will be available by the instant domain alias.
Domain registration is a standard procedure. First, you purchase a domain
name from a domain registration company. Second, you register this domain
name with your web-hosting provider and get your new IP address. Third,
you send this IP address to your domain registration company, where it
is set as the IP address for your domain name. It is only then that your
site becomes available to all Internet community. This is true both of
standard and nonstandard domains. In case of standard domain names, however,
the registration process is automated.
Creating Domains Based on Your
Provider's Domain Names (Third Level Domains)
Third level domains are registered on your provider's DNS server. You
don't need to register a third level domain with a domain registration
company. If you choose to create a third level domain, it will contain
your provider's domain name. E.g. if your provider's domain name is besthosting.com,
and the third level domain you are registering is mythirdlevel,
the fully qualified domain name would be mythirdlevel.besthosting.com.
Third level domain registration is available only if it is allowed under
the selected plan. Functionally, third level domains have same features
as second level domains.
To register a third level domain name, enter the desired domain name
in the Domain name field. From the box on the right, select provider's
domain name where you would like to create the third level domain:
Hosting
Sites Without Domain Names
In Control Panel, you can also host domains without domain names (the so-called
stop-gap domains). Usually they are created when a user wants to "save"
some site space for the future. When you create a stopgap domain, you
get no DNS zone, and you cannot use e-mail service. However, you will
be able to access and manage your site using the instant domain alias.
Stopgap domains support web site management and FTP services. Also, you
can have IP-only access. For this, you have to purchase a dedicated IP.
To create a stopgap domain, just click the Submit button in the
Stopgap domain registration form:
