Following
a trawl through the domain name registration services I settled for www.freeparking.co.uk/
and registered fentyler.co.uk
I
was charged £9.99 for registering this domain name for 2 years. The maintenance
services include a DNS manager allowing the user to edit the domain’s zone
file.
In
the first instance I am accepting the default values for the zone file, but
eventually I plan to experiment with that or to use a free domain name service
such as www.ZoneEdit.com
or www.granitecanyon.com for my
new domain name
One
of the features of freeparking’s service is free web forwarding using URL
masking:
“You
can have us automatically redirect all requests for web pages from your domain
to another web site. Because we use URL masking your domain name will remain in
the browser's address bar. Simply enter the complete URL of the domain name you
want to forward to. (e.g. http://www.myfreeisp.com/myspace/
) “
At
this point in my learning curve this appears to have many advantages:
1.
More
time to explore the mysteries of the zone file
2.
Redirection
of my free domain name (fentyler.no-ip.com)
to fentyler.co.uk
3.
I can
continue to use the no-ip dynamic update client
After waiting 12 hours or so for my new domain name to propagate across the
internet servers, my new domain name is up-and-running
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