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OK, here are the basics.

There are two issues here. First, you must register your domain. Second, you 
must get a host.

Registering your domain is where you find out if "www.johndoe.org" or whatever 
is available. Someone else may have already registered the domain name you 
want. Once you determine a domain name that you both want to own and is 
available, you must register the domain name and pay a fee. The fee must be 
paid again periodically to maintain your ownership of the domain, I believe 
you can pay either yearly or every other year. I think I have a domain fee 
payment coming up soon myself.

Once you have registered a domain name, you have to find a hosting company to 
host your site. This is the company that provides the server space, server-
side software, and bandwidth necessary to make your new domain available on 
the Internet. Typically, hosting companies also provide you with email service 
so that you can have a "john@xxxxxxxxxxx" email address.

Many hosting companies offer a way to do everything you need to do all at 
once. For example, http://www.bluedomino.com is the hosting company I use for 
my hosting of http://www.nibec.com (which I have done almost nothing with, but 
the support pages for this email list are there).

I've been pretty happy with my hosting service, but there are many many others 
out there. I have the basic plan that costs me right at $10 a month for 
hosting. When I did the research myself a couple of years ago, BlueDomino was 
the best deal I could find. I don't know if that's still true.

That should get you started :)

Ron

>  
> if my name was 'john doe', how would i set up a web site with 
> www.johndoe.com, 
> or .net, or .org? i would prefer to do it this way, instead of having it also 
> say 'yahoo' or 'blinkz', or 'siterightnow', or anything extra. just a basic 
> location with my name and 'com', 'org', or 'net'. where would i go to do 
> this? 
> are there different ways to do it cheaper?
> 
> Oe6
> 
> 
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