Drizzle Internet NW-FAQ-I want a domain!

I want my own domain name. How do I get one?

Give us a call, set up an account, and we'll register your domain in your name. We'll work with whatever registrar you request (or suggest one, if you wish), and call or e-mail you when it's all set up. Please do not register your domain yourself. Incorrect or incomplete registrations can cause lengthy delays in activating your domain name on Drizzle or any other server.

You can post files as soon as your account is open. Until the domain transfer is processed, you can upload files to your public_html directory at:

http://www.drizzle.com/~userid

where userid is the userid you chose when you signed up with Drizzle. For more specifics on transferring files, check out our FAQs on FTP and setting up a website.

E-mail for your account will always be delivered to your main pop e-mail box at

userid@drizzle.com

You can use that as your e-mail address until your domain registration is complete. Once the domain name goes through, you can begin using

userid@yourdomain.com

as your e-mail address. The domain e-mail address is an alias for your userid@drizzle.com mail box. ALL mail sent to

anythingyoudarnwellplease@yourdomain.com

will be delivered to that mailbox. You may have as many aliases as you want, for example: jimmy@yourdomain.com, potatochip@yourdomain.com, yomamaswig@yourdomain.com: as long as it says your domain.com at the end, it will get delivered to your mailbox.

If you want e-mails to addresses @yourdomain.com to go to other places, we can set that up. You can add another mailbox to your Drizzle services, and we will configure the specific address you wish (like yourassistant@yourdomain.com) to go to that box, and/or we can deliver e-mails to mailboxes that already exist either on Drizzle or not (squirrel@yourdomain.com can be configured to go to squirrel@notmail.com). There is a charge for extra e-mail boxes on Drizzle, but there is no charge for setting up aliases that are going to accounts that already exist.

To filter your e-mail, check out our FAQs on Procmail and Spam.