| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Awful service | |
| Posted by: | Chris Bell | |
| Date/Time: | 21/01/13 22:44:00 |
| Different ISPs do not provide exactly the same service, terms, and conditions. There are a few important steps, the first being to decide on a domain name that is available. My ISP provides an easy DIY facility to do this, follow the links for domains from http://www.ukfsn.org and you can search any or all the databases for a suitable name. Similar facilities are provided by some other well known companies such as 123-reg (UK?) and GoDaddy (USA), search Google for domain registration companies. Different endings are allocated by different registration authorities, such as .com (USA), and .uk (Oxford, England). The price is partly determined by the ending. Unfortunately some "useful" or "interesting" names have been grabbed by people just interested in making money by selling them on at a profit. The service provider will forward your registration request and usually supply email and website services, together with routing to suit your requirements. Emails can be (re)directed towards an optional list of sites in whichever priority order you choose. Once you have decided on a name and service provider you should be able to route incoming emails to another email address. If you already have a fixed numerical IP address it is possible to route incoming emails, etc, direct to your own computer, but there can be much greater risks of access problems and power failures than if they are handled by your ISP in a secure data centre. The internet uses binary numerical IPv4 or IPv6 addresses for routing which are difficult for us to remember, so the Domain Name Service (DNS) system provides a comprehensive index linking names that we can remember to the binary numbers together with information about the fastest route currently available. There is some information on my website, together with further references to more information, otherwise please ask. |