hi,

i'm all new to this and i'm wondering if you can get a free .com domein with your own server? and how?

How do you mean?

If you want a .com domain, you have to register one. This costs money (obviously).

--Ian

i dont want to pay for it there must be an way to make it your own isnt it?

yes of course you can have your domain but for your Internet (intranet) only.so if you want to go public than you have to pay for it.

When you register any domain, it has to be registered with the top-level registrars (e.g. Nominet for .uk, EURid for .eu etc) so that everyone in the world knows about it. These registrars don't provide a free service, hence why you have to pay.

If you purchase a dedicated server agreement with a provider they may offer you a free domain to use with it, however if you're talking about a server you've got at home, then no.

Of course you can create your own domains using a local DNS server installed on your own machine, but no-one else in the world will know about it until it's registered with the relevant top-level registry, which you do through a domain registrar, who charge you.

but if i have to pay for why don't others have to? i dont get that it starts somewhere and there is where i want to begin

(but it wont have to be knwon by everyone only with friends and so on not with the eu or uk)

Of course others have to pay.
Look around at some registrars - in the UK, UKreg and 123-reg are about the best I've come across.

http://www.ukreg.com/register-domain...icing-details/

Domains aren't massively expensive.
Once you've registered a domain, you can set up the addresses to point to the server you want and people across the Internet will find it.

Unless your friends are on the same network (or can use your machine as their DNS server) it will need to be registered publicly.) The DNS system is not selective about who it lets see the domains - that's a job for you to secure your server once the domain's set up.

oke so where it starts with the domains and internet you allready have to pay

Yes, even the domain registrars who you pay to register a domain, have to pay an amount to the registries to be able to register them. It's not a free system.

oke well thnx for the info

You can get a free domain from places such as no-ip.com, dyndns.org or www.dot.tk. Buying a domain isn't all that expensive, a .co.uk domain is about £2.50 a year.