When I opened the message, I found that Bernie Cosell had written: > It depends on what you mean by 'hosted'. It must have a *nameserver*, but > nothing else: no IP addresses, no defined names, no services, no email, no > nothing. A "domain name" is nothing more than a placeholder in the DNS.
Someone has to "hang on to it", don't they? I really don't understand any of this jargon, but when I first got my domain name I was told that someone had to host it. To me that meant that it didn't just float around in cyberspace.....and I knew that I had to have a host to have a web page. Now, that being said, and forgetting web pages........."but" considering using it as an email address......if only for forwarding to my current email address, what's involved. If my domain is at an entity somewhere and they can forward mail that comes into it, is that called hosting? For example my current ISP is direcway.com. All my mail goes out through them, but most all my incoming mail comes in through garlic.com. They are my mail server in many instances. I also have a web page on garlic.com. So, what's my relationship with them? My domain name and a web page is with ipowerweb.com. They are hosting my domain name, right? Ok, then, what color is the bird sitting on my fence right now? Pardon me for being so dumb about these things, but I know a lot of things that probably many of you don't. As a matter of fact, I know what's in every book in every library in the world <smile>! Regards, Jim I SELL TOOLS! From wrenches to lathes, from sockets to milling machines. See the link below for more info. http://pigfloms.notlong.com -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
