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Where is this $15 registration thing?

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Ahh thanks. So at first the actual name wouldn't direct it to the right DNS servers than would it? Because the list would have to be spread around the Internet?

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DNS stands for Domain Name Server. Each and every ISP has their own DNS (actually, they usually have 2 or 3). When you sign up for a new domain name (at least the .com, .org, and .net ones) you sign up at one of the ICANN acredited registrars (dotster, register, network solutions, tucows, etc.). The domain name information at the registrat has to point at a particular DNS server. Your ISP is responsible for entering that information in their own DNS server.

It then takes 24-48 hours for that information to propogate to all of the DNS's of the world.

Basically, the DNS is a phone book.

So, when you first sign up for a domain at dotster and you ask them to 'park' your domain name, they just user their own DNS server and your domain points to a page on their server saying "this name is taken".

Then, when you get an ISP/Web Host, you go back to Dotster, and enter the DNSs of your new Host. Then you wait 24-48 hours to have it propogate through the system, and then it will point to your new site.

It's actually fairly simple. Although my explanation probably makes it sounds more complicated.

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