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Domains, DNS, oh no
Hello Class of CS4116
So we use domains every day, even if ye dont know it
52.30.181.100
52.30.181.100 - Brightspace
209.85.203.94
209.85.203.94 - Google
Those numbers arent very human friendly
So what is teh solution?
Getting a domain!
There are many domain hosts to go for
And prices range from €1/year to €infinity/year
- .ie
- .com
- .tk
- .coffee
- .eu
- .me
- .gay
- ...
There is even .cat, though that is off limits to most of us.....
I recommend using <https://www.blacknight.com/> for .ie
And <https://www.namecheap.com/> for everything else
I am going to focus on .ie
These will set ye back ~€7 for the first year.
Then €30 for every year afterwards
Enter your perfect domain name into the big box
It will then show ye a list of options
Select one, add it to the cart
In the config select I'm hosting my website somewhere else
Then add these two as nameservers:
nadia.ns.cloudflare.comneil.ns.cloudflare.com
Press Update then Checkout for payment
You will verify that ye have a connection to Ireland
Your Student ID will work for this
Couldnt find a name that suited you in ASCII text?
Have no fear!
Punycode to the rescue!
Say you want brendán.ie
But because of the á it is not a "normal" domain.
Go to <https://www.punycoder.com/> and enter in your special domain
Boom: xn--brendn-tta.ie
Or say ye wanted to go wild and have an Ogham domain name?
ᚁᚏᚓᚅᚇᚐᚅ.com for example (brendan in Ogham)
(if corrupted see source document here)
ᚁᚏᚓᚅᚇᚐᚅ.com becomes xn--7ueiah2bis.com
Magic!
And congrats! You now have a domain.
As we saw in the earlier slides a domain points to an IP address.
Ye can point your domain to another domain.
These go to the same location
So anyone in CS4116 would love to point
<https://hi-conor-ryan-give-me-a1.ie>
To their InfinityFree instance
For that we need DNS
InfinityFree has their own (good) docs for this.
But I prefer to use CNAME for this
Cloudflare is one of teh best DNS providers
Signup, you should know how to do this.....
On teh homepage select Add a site
Enter in your domain (hi-conor-ryan-give-me-a1.ie)
Will take little while for it to be activated.
So go make a cuppa.
If ye are using InfinityFree checkout their CNAME docs
Thats kinda the end of this, it is targeted to CS4116.