Domain Name implementation

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Guys - been doing a bit of research on securing a domain name for the small company I work for and have no problems in getting the name we're after, I''m just a little unsure about implementing it.

Now, there is only a small peer to peer network here with no servers and for the time being, obtaining the domain name will be purely to use it as a better email address than the rubbish one we have now. However, once secured, we will obviously have the name for when/if, we ever convince the boss to develop a web presence.

My question is, how do we use a domain name as a web address? Is it something that our ISP can setup for us?

Sorry, I'm a real noob on these things so any help looked for

 

As AJ said, register the domain name thru 123-reg.co.uk who can also provide email and website if you need it (or speak nicely to me )

Then, bearing in mind you're running a small peer-to-peer network, either just connect to the POP mailbox on each PC or, if you use one of the machines as a sort of pseudo-server for data etc. run a little program called VPOP3 which can download all the mail and then spit it out round the network to the right machine for you - this has some advantages as it offers some nice features - see www.pscs.co.uk for details of VPOP.

Hope that helps and PM me if you want any more info.

 

Many thanx for the info both.

Kev - that looks exactly like what I am looking for, definitely going to check it out

 

I've used it a lot in the last 10 years. Prob about 30 or 40 companies I did work for are still using it. Forums are good too and it's not expensive.

Glad it helped !