[Promotum] Want your own domain name?

[Edmund A. Hintz]

You can probably get one for free if you want it... I just registered 
www.hintz.antioch.ca.us for free. Process has changed slightly since I 
did it last month, but you can still do it if you want to. The way it 
works, you find your city name which corresponds to your zip code on the 
following list:

http://us.neustar.biz/domain_name_registration/domain-delegated.txt

These are organized by state and city, cities with spaces in names will 
be listed with a - in place of the space, ergo san-diego, san-francisco, 
los-angeles, etc. Once you find the domain name which matches with your 
zip code, send a mail to the listed contact address for the procedure the 
admin wishes you to follow.

You will also need to setup DNS for your new domain. 
http://www.zoneedit.com will allow you to register up to 5 domains free, 
and they also provide a service to forward mail and web traffic. So, if 
you currently have an email of me@earthlink and/or a web address of 
www.earthlink.net/~me, you could easily setup the service at zone edit to 
forward me.city.state.us to www.earthlink.net/~me, and 
myname@me.city.state.us to me@earthlink.net. In my case this was all 
free; your milage may vary. Regardless, if the contact persons do charge 
for registration (which is pretty unlikely in most cases), it shouldn't 
be more than maybe $5 or so.


Peace,

Edmund A. Hintz              **|**     "You may say I'm a dreamer,
Mac Techie, Unix Geek,      *  |  *      But I'm not the only one...
Mac/Unix Consultant        *  /|\  *     I hope someday you'll join us,
<ed@hintz.org>              */ | \*      And the world will live as one.
'78 Westy                    *****      Imagine."
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