CS122B: Projects in Databases and Web Applications Winter 2018 Notes 07: Domain Registration Professor Chen Li Department of Computer Science CS122B

Motivation Register a domain name for people to remember More flexibility to change the IP address(es) If we change the IP address, as long as the domain name is mapped to the new address, we are good Important for marketing and sales CS122B

Steps Go to a domain registrar site such as GoDaddy Search for a good, available domain name Purchase it! CS122B

A good domain name is important! People tend to remember meaningful names, even if they are long: CarsInIrvine.com Try to avoid weird acronyms CS122B

Domain Parking “Registration of an internet domain name without that domain being associated with any services” For sale For ads CS122B

Mapping domain to IP Example: cs122b.com I purchased it from Godaddy.com Modify its zone file to map it to my AWS instance For now on I can access cs122b.com instead of ec2-52-36-XXX-XX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  CS122B