Daniel,

You need to have a DNS server that will provide lookup services for your domain. You can host the DNS server yourself, but you would probably be better off having an ISP maintain this for you. It shouldn't cost very much per month.

You also have to register the domain name with a service such as verisign.com. Part of the registration process includes providing the names and IP addresses of the DNS servers that will be used for this domain.

The ISP hosting your DNS will basically need to know what IP address to point your domain name to. Hopefully your ISP can talk you through this entire process.

The web server also has to be configured correctly to respond to requests for that domain....


>Well that Hyperlink1 control is pretty cool.... but what I'm looking for is more of a networking issue.... If I have a web server connected to the internet, I have my data and my web pages working .... but instead of some one typing in an ip adress in the web browser such as 10.80.72.143/thisfolder, I would like to have someone type in www.thisurl.com and have it point to 10.80.72.143/thisforlder. I'm not sure if I go to one of those registering services, they just give the IP or what?
>I really don't have any kind of experience with this stuff..
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