Otis Teaches

In the last two videos, you learned how to get a free domain at Register.com and then you learned where to get free web hosting. In this video, I will teach you how to connect the two together. Currently your domain name is hosted somewhere different from your hosting account. The goal is to have visitors directed to your site where your files are hosted when they type in your domain name. Currently this can not be accomplished until you first update your domain name system (DNS).

The domain name system (DNS) is the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. A domain name is a meaningful and easy-to-remember “handle” for an Internet address.

Go to Tutorial #4

Tags: dns, domain name system, internet address, internet domain names, internet protocol address, uniform resource locator, URL, web address

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