For business users (and other users, at our option) NetHeaven accounts include these domain services for one domain. If you're at all uncertain about what a domain is (hint: it's not a website), see what a domain is - and what it's not. If websites are your real interest, read about virtual servers.

DNS

DNS (Domain Name Service) is the network service that enables remote users to find information about your domain.  We provide on-site primary DNS and, for redundancy, dual off-site secondary DNS with servers in Potsdam, NY and Durango, CO.

You need DNS for a domain in order to register it.

The actual filing of the registration is the least significant of the domain services that go into "registering a domain". You could do this yourself, which is almost as easy as providing us with the information we need to do it for you. However, having us do it for you helps avoid some pitfalls and keeps the other services we provide (such as establishing DNS) in sync with filing the registration. 
 

If you have a domain, all email addresses in that domain are yours, but they have to go somewhere. We'll route them where you want them to go, which can be a mailbox on NetHeaven or an email address on another service.

Example: Fred Smith is user fred on NetHeaven, has registered domain beerkeg.com, has an employee Bob who handles advertising and uses AOL for mail, and has a son Bill who uses Fred's second mailbox beer.bill to deal with complaints. Fred asks for mappings:

• fred@beerkeg.com --> fred@netheaven.com
• sales@beerkeg.com --> fred@netheaven.com
• bob@beerkeg.com --> bob1234@aol.com
• ads@beerkeg.com --> bob1234@aol.com
• bill@beerkeg.com --> beer.bill@netheaven.com
• complaints@beerkeg.com --> beer.bill@netheaven.com
• {default}@beerkeg.com --> fred@netheaven.com

Some businesses prefer not to register their own domain. We will let them use a subdomain of one of our domains webaddrs.com or netheaven.com. For example, instead of registering beerkeg.com, Fred above could have chosen either of these:

• beerkeg.webaddrs.com
• beerkeg.netheaven.com

We reserve the right not to allow use of subdomains that we consider would be inappropriate. For example, we have a number of clients who do Website development, and we would not let one of them choose websites.netheaven.com, because that could easily be interpreted as favoritism toward, or even a business relationship with, that one client.