<div dir="ltr">DynDns is a service that allows you to choose pre-existing domain names (that dyndns owns) by adding a name you choose to it. For example <a href="http://homelinux.org">homelinux.org</a>. If decide on the name myubuntu then the domain name would be <a href="http://myubuntu.homelinux.org">myubuntu.homelinux.org</a>. You don't own the domain name so you can't register it. DynDns is mostly used for people with high speed internet who's ip address may change occasionally. It will keep the name you choose pointed to whatever ip address you have. If you are looking to register your own domain name eg. <a href="http://thisismydomain.com">thisismydomain.com</a> then you go to a domain registrar site and see if the name is already taken. If not then you buy the name and it's yours. I bought my own domain name and I pay a yearly fee. The only warning you may get is to remember to pay your bill. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44 PM, geo <<a href="mailto:yaktur@yahoo.com">yaktur@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"> I'm asking this kind of question here because I don't know how to find this information out and I need assistance. I simply don't have the time to do this kind of research. I was led to believe that I could register my own name (which I own) to get some kind of domain name attached to a website being hosted on a computer I own and whose connection I pay for.. Now I discover it is not true because the domain name gets taken away after a frightfully short time - and this is very frustrating. I'm tempted to believe that domain names and such are a scam just to get people's hard-earned money. I don't know who or how to research this kind of stuff in any reasonable time, I simply have too much to do. geo --- On Thu, 7/17/08, David Vincent <<a href="mailto:dvincent@sleepdeprived.ca" target="_blank">dvincent@sleepdeprived.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: David Vincent <<a href="mailto:dvincent@sleepdeprived.ca" target="_blank">dvincent@sleepdeprived.ca</a>> Subject: Re: Domain name stuff? To: <a href="mailto:yaktur@yahoo.com" target="_blank">yaktur@yahoo.com</a>, "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 6:37 PM <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 geo wrote: > I think the advice I received in this thread was wrong. > > I did follow the advice given in the original e-mail from dyndns as well > as following the information in this thread but it has been a waste of > my time - my domain name has been shut down. > > <a href="http://georutkay.homelinux.org" target="_blank">http://georutkay.homelinux.org</a> -- no longer works. > > This is very frustrating and time consuming for me, already very much > over-worked. > > I'll ask this.......where can I get my domain registered for free and > have it NOT do this expiration stuff to me? do you own <a href="http://homelinux.org" target="_blank">homelinux.org</a>? if not then that's the place to start. please post back about whom you find who does free registrations without expiry dates. - -d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIf8m3fpRzWFIV0XMRAmFaAKCBGUJUEA0UuW1/4MHN5diVc+reSQCfa2Wc q23iwQzCav9rYzBhVg9YHuk= =nH9a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table> -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </blockquote></div> </div>