Your own Domain and Website – Part 3

We continue the process of getting you own free or low cost site and gmail, from the previous post.
Recap: So far we have found a domain name that is available for registering (onecoolname.co.za), and we have signed up at a DNS service provider (in this case it is ZoneEdit).

Part 3: Sending Through the Domain Registration

We are working with the co.za domain registration process in this example which uses a manually submitted text file.

In Part 1 you downloaded the registration from co.za, it is very important that you DO NOT open this is word, you must open it is a text based editor. DO NOT FORMAT this form in any way.

• No matter how get the form from page http://www.coza.net.za/coza_reg.txt, then select the whole page,
  
• If you are using a browser to do this then go to the bottom right corner, and while holding the mouse down I drag to the top left corner.
  
• I then press Ctrl-C (or right click copy). For Mac users you need to do it a different way
  
• The from you Gmail click [Compose mail]
  
• The email will open, then click the hyperlink that says Plain Text, it will give you a warning, say yes
  
• Paste the registration form, do not delete anything, or do any formatting
  
• Open the text registration form, and fill it in, here are a few notes:
  • 1a add the domain name, in this case onecoolname.co.za
    
  • 1b – put "N" there
    
  • 2a,b,c, etc put you details
    
  • 2e – put "I"
    
  • 2f – the company name
    
  • 2g – use your GMail email
    
  • 2i-n your details
    
  • 3 Leave Blank.
    
  • 4 & 5a-g your details
    
  • IMPORTANT 6. This is where you put the details you got in Part 2 from ZoneEdit and the name servers FQDN is the name which will be nsx.zoneedit.com, the IP addresses are the numbers in brackets. Primary is nameserver 1, Secondary = nameserver 2.
    NOTE- only put the two servers in do not get confused by the additional Secondary Server listings.
  • 9 fill in descriptive details, this may become legally relevant
    
  • 10 fill in the legal address
    
• If you have not already add coza-admin.at.co.za, under the To: address as instructed
  
• Add a subject for you own tracking
  
• Press [Send]

You should get  a reply in a few minutes. If you receive an error following the post read the error message carefully and correct what they tell you is wrong, if you did not submit it as text, it will fail, if you fill in things incorrectly they will fail. But if it does fail it tells you why. Correct and resubmit. Otherwise post error as a comment and I will try and help.

Now you need to wait for confirmation of the registration. In the meantime you can continue to Part 4, but Part 4 will only be a setup if part 3 fails.