Kaniaz, You mean

1. Buy your domain name from a registrar of your choice. They'll point it to any place of your choosing for a year, upon which you'll have to renew or lose the domain name unless you buy a longer subscription.
2. Get it to point it at your IP. If your IP is not static, you're going to need to perform some Dynamic DNS hocus pocus here, since you're hosting this yourself.
3. Get your server working at that IP.
4. ???
5. Profit!

Right?

Quote Originally Posted by asher View Post
BTW it's dangerous to post a domain name to a public forum and not reserve it right away. Given the low cost I'd get your name ASAP.
Even officially ICANN accredited Registrars (like Godaddy) have to pay $6/name/year to the Registry (Verisign in the case of .com names), plus an additional $0.25 ICANN fee.

Good luck with your project!

-asher[/b]
Yes, super dangerous! Because people here will just REGISTER it to annoy the hell out of him, muhahahahahhahahahah-- No. We're all civilised folks, we're a close community, and noone here will waste money on a domainname such as Tsenru.com seeing how it means nothing to any of us except for Tsen. If it was some cool fancy hip domainname, then sure. But else, no.

And I know registrars have to pay an amount, I never said it was free, but my point was that he couldn't get a domainname himself directly, without using some sort of mediator (registrar) between him and the ICANN.

Edit
I -did- say it was free, although I misphrased BADLY. I meant to say there is no free alternative of setting up a "DNS server" of sorts (or something) to get a free domain name. Registrars too pay money, or the ICANN would be charity. Charity, I tell you.