How to get a FREE domain name and a FREE hosting plan
Part 2 - Domain registration - Subdomain registration
Let's start with our eu.org domain registrationStep A) Read the policies
Please read the official policies before starting.
Notice that small commercial sites are allowed.
Commercial sites
Though the service is mostly geared towards non-profit and not-for-profit organizations and individuals, small commercial sites are accepted, but they are VERY STRONGLY asked to do so only as a very last resort (please consider reserving a domain from of the ICANN-accredited registrars at InterNIC), unless of course they support EU.org goals.
i) Use nslookup.io
ii) Under console Windows or Linux use the command
nslookup -q=soa yurdomain.eu.org
if you get
* server can't find yourdomain.eu.org: NXDOMAIN
you can register this domain
Currently the eu.org whois service does not work anymore so use nslookup.
From now on i will use "yourdomain.eu.org" as example domain.
Step C) Create a real personal email
You can use :
www.gmail.com
www.hotmail.com
www.gmx.com
www.aol.com
all of them are free and support POP3 protocol.
For mine eu.org registration i have used with success a gmail account.
Not all the DNS services work with the eu.org domains.
You need an authoritative name server which is a name server that gives answers in response to questions asked about names in a zone.
ClouDNS is one i know that works with these type of domains.
Also seems to work hostry - FREE DNS service
Source for hostry and eu.org
Years ago editdns.net worked but it it now closed.
Notice that the DNS service we will use it only in order to register our domain so the stability of this service is not critical.
Go to ClouDNS.net and register with your real name and a real valid email.
Once registered to ClouDNS.net login and go to :
DNS Zones > add new > master zone > Create this zone with NS records
ns11.cloudns.net
ns12.cloudns.net
ns13.cloudns.net
ns14.cloudns.net
domain name > "yourdomain.eu.org" and hit the "create" button.
You should have a list like this :
yourdomain.eu.org NS ns11.cloudns.net
yourdomain.eu.org NS ns12.cloudns.net
yourdomain.eu.org NS ns13.cloudns.net
yourdomain.eu.org NS ns14.cloudns.net
In case of hostry free DNS :
Register to hostry using your real name and a real valid email.
Go to SERVICES > Free DNS menu, enter the domain name "yourdomain.eu.org" and click CREATE DNS.
Afterward, click CREATE again.
Wait for a moment until the status becomes active.
You should have a list like this :
ns1.hostry.com
ns2.hostry.com
ns3.hostry.com
ns4.hostry.com
Step E) Contact Creation
Go to Contact Creation page of eu.org
Fill the form with your real data.
This data will be shown on whois.
Do not try to trick the admins fill the form carefully.
Use a valid email address.
Use a long secure password.
As far as i remember automatically they will send you an email and you need to simply reply to that email in order to verify your contact.
They will generate for you a contact record like this :
AK123-FREE (username)
Step F) Domain Creation Form
Please do not register domains for fun.
Register only one domain that you really need and you are going to use right away.
Go to Domain Creation Form
Fill the form carefully using with the same valid email address.
Give "http://yourdomain.eu.org" at the "Complete domain name" field
At "Organization" fill your name, real address and Country
At "Administrative contact" and at "Technical contact" give your contact record (for example : "AK123-FREE" )
At "Technical information" give the four nameservers :
ns11.cloudns.net
ns12.cloudns.net
ns13.cloudns.net
ns14.cloudns.net
or the hostry ones if you used this DNS service
ns1.hostry.com
ns2.hostry.com
ns3.hostry.com
ns4.hostry.com
Leave the IP fields blank
Select the Check for correctness of "server names" only.
Hit the "submit" button.
If everything is OK you will receive a mail at your email address.
Reply at this email. You will get another email telling you that everything is ok !
Wait for the activation of your requested domain. (From 1 to 8 weeks)
The activation is long because i think it is done manually.
After this period you will receive an email telling you that everything is OK.
Step G) Enable DNSSEC (optional)
After registering the eu.org domain (From 1 to 8 weeks) you can also use desec free Secure DNS in order to enable DNSSEC for your registered domain if you want.
Go to desec.io and make a registration give name email and yourdomain.eu.org.
The service will give you these nameservers
ns1.desec.io
ns2.desec.org
Go to nic.eu.org select your domain and update your Nameservers to
ns1.desec.io
ns2.desec.org
In order to enable DNSSEC go to deSEC interface, click the little āiā information button at the right side of the domain list and you will see the provided nameservers and DS keys for that domain.
You need to copy line by line and submit each line seperately to eu.org.
In this example, the first line
12804 13 2 7017ce99192...
must become
yourdomain.eu.org. 86400 IN DS 12804 13 2 7017ce99192...
Paste that into the field and submit it.
Do the same for the second line
12804 13 4 6b77...
must become
yourdomain.eu.org. 86400 IN DS 12804 13 4 6b77...
Paste that into the field and submit it. Thats all.
You dont need to worry about the DNSKEY that is also provided by deSEC.
Now you wait for propagation and once thats done, you can check for DNSSEC status with the dig command:
dig +dnssec yourdomain.eu.org
and in the header it should have the ad flag.
You can also use a online tool like dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs
Source for DNSSEC and eu.org
If you do not want to wait 8 weeks for a eu.org domain you can choose freedns.afraid.org in order to register a uk.to subdomain.
Just register to freedns.afraid.org and go to Subdomains hit "add" - "Domain" - "many many more available..."
Now select from the domains list
select the uk.to
Now select Type: NS
pick your subdomain LIKE "yourdomain.uk.to" and
at Desination use
ns11.cloudns.net
and hit add
After some minutes for propagation purposes "yourdomain.uk.to" should be resolved by cloudns.
Later we will change our temporary cloudns nameservers to the new ones provided by our hosting provider.
The same is true for the eu.org registered domains.
In the next page we will discuss in detail how to get a decent free/low cost web hosting plan.
Part 1 - Introduction - [[ Part 2 - Domain Registration ]] - Part 3 - Hosting-Plan