DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition

Registering Your Zones

Different registrars have different registration policies and procedures, but most, at this point, handle registration online, through their web sites. Since you found or chose your registrar earlier in the chapter, we’ll assume you know which web site to use.

The registrar will need to know the domain names and addresses of your name servers and enough information about you to send you a bill or charge your credit card. If you’re not connected to the Internet, give them the IP addresses of the Internet hosts that will act as your name servers. Some registrars also require that you already have operational name servers for your zone. (Those that don’t may ask for an estimate of when the name servers will be fully operational.) If that’s the case with your registrar, skip ahead to Chapter 4 and set up your name servers. Then contact your registrar with the requisite information.

Most registrars will also ask for some information about your organization, including an administrative contact and a technical contact for your zone (who can be the same person). If your contacts aren’t already registered in the registrar’s whois database, you’ll also need to provide information to register them in whois. This includes their names, surface mail addresses, phone numbers, and electronic mail addresses. If they are already registered in whois, just specify their whois “handles” (unique alphanumeric IDs) in the registration.

There’s one more aspect of registering a ...