In the wee hour of 08:03 PM 5/29/01 -0700, Matt bequeathed such tales as these:
>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if anyone here has thier own domain?
>
>What are the ups and downs of that?
>
>Does your computer have to be on in order to recieve EMail? For your web
>pages to display on the net?
>
>How do you access newsgroups?
>
>Do you still have to have an ISP, or does that make you your own
>personal ISP?
>
>So you need "server" software?
>
>Anything else that you wish you would have known before you got your own
>domain?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Matt
If you have a service to offer or a product to sell then your own domain
for your own site is helpful, having a domain name like www.yourname.com is
much better than www.whoever.com/yourname.html as it's short and easy to
remember. See Tophosts for a complete listing
http://www.tophosts.com/. You will still need an ISP to dial into the
Internet, you receive email just as you do now. You don't need to have
server software installed unless you plan to host your own site, I don't
recommend it unless you have a strong grasp of the technologies involved. HTH
Peter Kaulback
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