Please could someone explain to me exactly what happens when you buy a domain name? At the moment I’m using a free no-ip.com domain which uses an automatic DNS update to update to the IP of my computer where my website is served from. How does a domain bought from 123-reg.co.uk update to the ip? Cheers!
AFAIK when you register a domain name you point it to an IP. If your IP regularly changes, you will probably have to point it to a nameserver, such as one of no-ip's, and let them automagically redirect to your computer. I actually registered my first domain name through no-ip, which makes it easy to redirect to a changing IP, but I've since just gone with a hosting service and point one of the sub-domains to my home machine, changing the DNS entry manually on my host's website when my IP changes. So basically, I think a registered domain name will not be easily updated to your changing IP without a pay service such as that from no-ip, but I could easily be wrong.
erm, no Domains are read backwards ie net bit-tech www. where net translates to who ever owns that domain (acording to ICANN) bit-tech which ever nameserver is pointed to by the .net referance is queired. www is queired by which ever nameserver is pointed to by bit-tech. so there is always a nameserver. your ISP might host this name server for you, or they been a registra might just forward it too your server.
Ok so let me get this straight. It would be best for me to keep evilsprouts.no-ip.com and my automatic DNS program. Buy www.evilsprouts.co.uk and have that redirected to evilsprouts.no-ip.com? Is that what you’re saying?
Some domain reg companies will allow you to do a redirect from the domain name instead of just pointing it to someone elses DNS, that would probably be the best bet to do what your suggesting.
I have just been looking through the FAQ on 123-reg.co.uk where I’m going to get my domain from, here are some of the things it said: Does this mean that I will get a DNS program like I have for .no-ip.com??? What does it mean by change name servers? Cheers
That means you can set the name server to whoever you like without having to phone them up, it does however take about 24 hrs to perpetuate through the system, i dont know how noip works but maybe you could set it to their DNS servers. Easier would be the forwarding they mention, thats much easier to set up but slightly less functional. What will happen with forwarding is when someone types in the www.evilsprouts.co.uk it will open a page on the 123 reg servers which instantly forwards to your evilsprouts.no-ip.com. They mention 3 types of forwarding, one of which would certainly be cloaked forwarding which means that whilst the browser redirects to evilsprouts.no-ip.com their url bar in their browser will always say www.evilsprouts.co.uk. If you dont mind spending a bit more you can get some good hosting for about £15 a year that would solve all of these problems. i use www.34sp.com and find them faultless except that your limited to 30Mb on the standard account, fine for a large website but no good for hosting files or media.
Ok cheers! I don’t want have my site hosted by some1 else. I think my only option is to have www.evilsprouts.co.uk redirected to http://evilsprouts.no-ip.com/ Cheers for al your help every 1!
Try http://freedns.afraid.org/ you can point your domain to their nameserver and they act like no-ip.com does. I think that's what they offer at least, I don't have time to look into it much right now, but I can try after school.
