Domain name stuff?

[geo]

I'm asking this kind of question here because I don't know how to find this information out and I need assistance. I simply don't have the time to do this kind of research.

I was led to believe that I could register my own name (which I own) to get some kind of domain name attached to a website being hosted on a computer I own and whose connection I pay for..

Now I discover it is not true because the domain name gets taken away after a frightfully short time - and this is very frustrating. I'm tempted to believe that domain names and such are a scam just to get people's hard-earned money.

I don't know who or how to research this kind of stuff in any reasonable time, I simply have too much to do.

geo
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
From: David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>
Subject: Re: Domain name stuff?
To: yaktur at yahoo.com, "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 6:37 PM

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geo wrote:
> I think the advice I received in this thread was wrong.
> 
> I did follow the advice given in the original e-mail from dyndns as well
> as following the information in this thread but it has been a waste of
> my time - my domain name has been shut down.
> 
> http://georutkay.homelinux.org     -- no longer works.
> 
> This is very frustrating and time consuming for me, already very much
> over-worked.
> 
> I'll ask this.......where can I get my domain registered for free and
> have it NOT do this expiration stuff to me?

do you own homelinux.org?  if not then that's the place to start.
please post back about whom you find who does free registrations without
expiry dates.

- -d

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