THE VIRTUAL SERVER HANDBOOK

Registering or Transferring

your Domain

You may have already registered a domain and need to transfer the domain

to our name servers or you may need to register a domain name for your

virtual server.  Either way we have provided information to help you get

this done.  You can also go straight to InterNIC to register you domain

name.  The following sections explain how to registering or transferring

domains and how to contact InterNIC for domain registration.

What is a Domain Name?

Internet servers have a name and a number associated with them.  The

number part is called an IP address and the name part is called a domain

name. Valid domain name characters include letters, digits, dashes, and

periods. The domain name cannot begin nor end with a period or dash.  If

you are requesting a  .com ,  .net , or  .org  top level domain name, InterNIC

limits you to use 26 characters (including the top level domain name).

Domain names are registered with a domain name registry, e.g. InterNIC,

RIPE, CDNNET, etc. Depending on the top level domain you request (the

top level domain is the last part of the domain name such as  com ,  net ,  uk ,

 de , etc), you will need to consult the domain name registry for specific

guidelines. The  .com ,  .net , and  .org  top level domain names are

registered with the InterNIC.

Examples of domain names that the InterNIC will register:

     example.com

     example.gov

     example.edu

     somelongname.net

Examples of domain names that the InterNIC can NOT register:

     www.example.org

     http://example.gov

     example.us

     illegal_characters.net

     a name longer than twentysix characters.com

Why not?

InterNIC will not register www.example.org because the InterNIC can only

register the last two sections of a name. If you wanted a web site with the

address www.example.org you would register example.org with the

InterNIC and the www part of it will be added to the name by your service

provider or by the System Administrator at example.org.

InterNIC will not register http://example.gov because the  http://  part is not

part of the name. The InterNIC would accept  example.gov  as a domain

name, but the  http://  part should not be included here.

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