{"id":210,"date":"2006-08-09T18:28:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/09\/step-1-get-a-domain-name\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T17:40:55","slug":"step-1-get-a-domain-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/09\/step-1-get-a-domain-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 1: Get a domain name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to create a new web site, the first step is to get a domain name. For the example I&#8217;ll use in the coming tutorial, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexyk.com\/\">Lexyk.com<\/a> is the name of the domain I&#8217;ll use for a dictionary web site I am currently creating. Without it, no visitor will ever find your web site because typing <code>http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/<\/code> is usually not the kind of data visitors really want to type in the address bar of FireFox, Opera or Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>You have to pay <em>for this name<\/em> because there is a company (or actually a group of services companies) providing the infrastructure behind the translation between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexyk.com\/\">www.lexyk.com<\/a> and the ugly dotted numeric address. This translation is known as a DNS (Domain Name Service).<\/p>\n<p>In my case, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gandi.net\/\">Gandi<\/a>, a French registrar (that&#8217;s the <em>ugly<\/em> name of such companies that provide registration services for domain names!) that I appreciate because they are reasonably priced (14\u00e2\u201a\u00ac VAT-included, per year) and support a large variety of basic and not so basic services. Nevertheless, I did need the bare minimum: a name, and DNS basic service.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have paid for this name and the support for the transparent translation to a numeric address, you are ready to go to the next step (renting publishing space).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to create a new web site, the first step is to get a domain name. For the example I&#8217;ll use in the coming tutorial, Lexyk.com is the name of the domain I&#8217;ll use for a dictionary web site I am currently creating. Without it, no visitor will ever find your web site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-create-a-web-site","category-new-web-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}