What is the best\cheapest place to buy a domain name (.com/.ca/.org)?

And how would I link it to my home server?

All help is appreciated.

Edited October 9, 200817 yr by x-Shadow-x

Sorry for the bump, Anyone?

I have used Register.com in the past - once you buy the Domain you get access to DNS settings, in there you can target the Domain to name servers or IP Address, but remember it takes 24 hours for any changes you make to this to take effect.

So if you have a habit of changing your IP Address you need to allow 24 hours in change over time

I was thinking of trying locodomains.com, has anyone tryed there services?

And thanks Devil 666.

I've only used Godaddy, although only on a renewal, prior registrars were Tucows, OpenSRS and AccountSupport (i think) and Hypermart and Xoom, those last two are long gone however.

Godaddy!!!

Most people seem to have missed a critical part of the first post:

And how would I link it to my home server?

Unless you're on a static IP (most ISPs charge extra for that), then using a plain old domain name will mean downtime every time your IP changes (for you to realize it stopped working, then updating it, and changes to propagate).

For those type of scenarios, there's really only 1 solution: DynDNS's custom DNS service (perhaps others have a similar service, I never actually looked). Your DynDNS client app will make it update the IP "instantly" (just like for any usual DynDNS entry), with no downtime.

I never personally bothered, as my up speed sucks way too bad for any practical "server" use (0.9mbit). And to VPN in and such, a plain old DynDNS entry works just as well (no harder to remember than whatever long domain name you can come up with these days -- pretty much anything you can think of is already taken).

Edited November 4, 200817 yr by crahak

Most people seem to have missed a critical part of the first post:

And how would I link it to my home server?

Unless you're on a static IP (most ISPs charge extra for that), then using a plain old domain name will mean downtime every time your IP changes (for you to realize it stopped working, then updating it, and changes to propagate).

For those type of scenarios, there's really only 1 solution: DynDNS's custom DNS service (perhaps others have a similar service, I never actually looked). Your DynDNS client app will make it update the IP "instantly" (just like for any usual DynDNS entry), with no downtime.

Namecheap.com supports dynamic IP updating and offers a wide variety of top-level domain registrations.

Thanks, crahak. I already have a domain that isnt taken. >=-D

And thanks gamehead200, I will try them.

Now to set up my server completly.

another vote for godaddy, domains are the only thing that they are good at.

Is godaddy like Namecheap.com, does it support dynamic IP updating?

one of my clients uses namecheap, but he doesnt really use any of the features for it..

what exactly is dynamic IP updating?

for a domain name to work all you have to do is point it to a nameserver.

that is unless you are setting that domain name up to be a nameserver in itself, in which case all you have to do is change the ip address for it.