Comment on Can you recommend me a free domain registrar?

notabot@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• A_norny_mousse@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think the downvotes are probably because you make it sound like you expect to be able to get a normal domain name without paying.

  I am pretty sure that this is possible.

  Your best bet may be to look for a dynamic dns provider

  Well that should work for static IPs too, I guess. Recommendations?

  they let you map a hostname to your IP address

  WDYM by “hostname”?

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  • notabot@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t have any specific recommendations, you’ll need to decide how the various providers match up to your ethical requirements. You say you just want to “try out some things with a secondary domain”, so you may want to take the opportunity to test a few of the services to see which suits you best.

    WDYM by “hostname”?

    In terms of DNS, a hostname is just the name that you want to be able to resolve to an IP address, so, for instance www.google.con is a hostname in the google.com domain. Because the system is hierarchical, google.com can also be a hostname in the com domain. Specifically, a hostname is represented by an A record in the domain, and a nested, or sub, domain is represented by a NS record, with similar types for IPv6 addresses.

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    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OK. That’s a domain then. Top level + secondary to be precise. hostname is less specific than just calling it a domain. Could be just google in your example.

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