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You have several choices in registering domain names:
To add a new domain name to your account, select Add New
Domain in the user menu:
You will be taken to the Domain Name Registration
page. It has several domain name registration forms for different
types of domains.
Creating New *.com,
*.net, or *.org Domains
To create a new standard domain (with *.com,
*.net, *.org extensions), enter your desired
domain name into the field in the first form, omitting the
www part:
To its right, select domain category: .com, org,
or .net, then enter your contact and billing information.
Based on these data, the system will generate a domain registration
request and submits it to OpenSRS, a major domain registration
company. For more information, refer to http://www.opensrs.org/faq.shtml.
Transferring
Existing Domains or Registering Nonstandard Domains
To transfer an existing domain or register a nonstandard
domain with your account, use the second form:
If you are creating a regional domain (e.g. your_domain.uk)
or would like to use a different domain registration company,
no automation is provided. Thus, first you need to make sure
that you have a valid domain name. Enter it into the lower
box, omitting the www. part.
Following the registration you will get an e-mail notification
with the information to send to your domain name registration
company. They will make appropriate changes on the root DNS
servers, and within a couple of days your domain will be accessible
at the new IP address. In the meantime, your site will be
available by the instant domain alias.
Domain registration is a standard procedure. First, you purchase
a domain name from a domain registration company. Second,
you register this domain name with your web-hosting provider
and get your new IP address. Third, you send this IP address
to your domain registration company, where it is set as the
IP address for your domain name. It is only then that your
site becomes available to all Internet community. This is
true both of standard and nonstandard domains. In case of
standard domain names, however, the registration process is
automated.
Creating Domains
Based on Your Provider's Domain Names (Third Level Domains)
Third level domains are registered on your provider's DNS
server. You don't need to register a third level domain with
a domain registration company. If you choose to create a third
level domain, it will contain your provider's domain name.
E.g. if your provider's domain name is besthosting.com,
and the third level domain you are registering is mythirdlevel,
the fully qualified domain name would be mythirdlevel.besthosting.com.
Third level domain registration is available only if it is
allowed under the selected plan. Functionally, third level
domains have same features as second level domains.
To register a third level domain name, enter the desired
domain name in the Domain name field. From the box
on the right, select provider's domain name where you would
like to create the third level domain:
Hosting Sites Without
Domain Names
In NatHost, you can also host domains without domain names
(the so-called stop-gap domains). Usually they are created
when a user wants to "save" some site space for
the future. When you create a stopgap domain, you get no DNS
zone, and you cannot use e-mail service. However, you will
be able to access and manage your site using the instant domain
alias.
Stopgap domains support web site management and FTP services.
Also, you can have IP-only access. For this, you have to purchase
a dedicated IP.
To create a stopgap domain, just click the Submit
button in the Stopgap domain registration form:
Parking
External Domains (version 2.07 and higher)
This feature allows you to use NatHost DNS server to map
IPs to domain names serviced and hosted on other servers (not
those of NatHost). In this case, a DNS zone is created with
a custom DNS A record for the domain name and its IP is entered
in the form below:
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