1. Domain Name Registration, ICANN, Registrars & Hosting Options
Aaron Vanderwielen
Brittany Iverson

2. Getting Ready to Publish a Website
What you need to know
How the Domain Name System (DNS) works
ICANN involvement
Which Registrar you are going to use
Hosting options

3. Domain Name System (DNS)
Naming system built on a distributed database
address (A) records
mail exchanger (MX) records
name server (NS) records
Translates hostnames into IP addresses
“Phone book”
--> (IPv4)

4. ICANN Manages IP address spaces Top Level Domains (TLDs)
Com, gov, edu, etc.

5. IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
Operated by ICANN
delegates allocations of IP address blocks to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
Delegates administrative responsibility of “top- level domains”

6. Domain Name Registrars
Manage the reservation of domain names
The maximum registration: 10 years
Largest registrar: Go Daddy
Other successful registrars
eNOM, Network Solutions, Register.com
Transfer scams (Domain Slamming)
VeriSign lawsuit in 2002

7. Web Hosting Options What to look for
Customer service
Disk space
Bandwidth
Uptime
Programming services
Price
Don’t buy features you don’t need!