Domain Name Registration

[doctordoctor]

Apologies if this is a truly stupid question (in contrast to the oft-quoted "there are no stupid questions," I am a firm believer that there are) . . .

How does one go about registering domain names that include "dots" prior to the .suffix.

For example, can the domain name:

www.ice.cream.com be registered?

If not, how do sites like ma.gnolia.com and del.icio.us come into being exactly?

Is the official registry icio.us? And the company has a server with the del prefix address?

 

[Pepsi90919]

those are subdomains. they are configured from the webhost and DNS servers. icio.us is one domain, cream.com is another, anything below that are subdomains

 

[mattocs]

subdomains

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: doctordoctor
Is the official registry icio.us? And the company has a server with the del prefix address?

Yep.

icio.us is the registered domain and the prefix is a "subdomain".

For example, if you register doctordoctor.com and create a subdomain letsplay giving you a result http://letsplay.doctordoctor.com

Use domain suggestions to see what domains are available and NameCheap.com to register the domain.

The final two steps are web hosting and content/HTML/scripts.

 

[FoBoT]

i hope you are a chick if rossman is going to play doctor with you