Domains are registered according to the standard procedure. Firstly, you need to purchase a domain name from a domain registration company. Secondly, you register this domain name with your web-hosting provider, from which you get your new IP address. Thirdly, you communicate this IP address to your domain registration company, where it is set as the IP address for your domain name. Then your site becomes available to all Internet community. This is true both of standard and non-standard domains. In case of standard domain names, however, the registration procedure is automated.

To add a new domain name to your account, select Register Domain in the user menu:

You will be taken to the Domain Name Registration page. It has several domain name registration forms for different types of domains.

To create a new standard domain, enter your desired domain name into the field in the first form, omitting the www part:

On its right, select domain category: .com, org, or .net, then provide your contact and billing information. Based on these data, a domain registration request will be generated and submitted to OpenSRS, a domain registration company. For more information, refer to http://www.opensrs.org/faq.shtml.

To transfer an existing domain or register a non-standard domain with your account, use the second form:

If you are creating a regional domain or if you would like to go for a different domain registration company, no automation is provided. This is why you first need to make sure you have a valid domain name. Enter it into the lower box, omitting the www part. After the registration, you will be given the information to communicate to your domain name registration company.

Third level domains are registered on your provider's DNS server. You don't need to register a third level domain with a domain registration company. If you choose to create a third level domain, it will contain your provider's domain name. E.g. if your provider's domain name is besthosting.com, and the third level domain you are registering is mythirdlevel, the fully qualified domain name would be mythirdlevel.besthosting.com.

Third level domain registration is available only if it is allowed under the selected plan. Functionally, third level domains, have the same features as second level domains.

To register a third level domain name, enter the desired domain name in the Domain name field. From the box on the right, select provider's domain name to which you would like to create the third level domain:

Stopgap domains are not real domains and do not have any domain names. When you create a stopgap domain, you get no DNS zone, and you cannot use e-mail service. Still, you will be able to access your site using the instant domain alias.

Stopgap domains support web site management and FTP services. Also, you can have IP-only access. For this, you have to purchase a dedicated IP.

To create a stopgap domain, just click the Submit button in the Stop-gap domain registration form:

Service Domain feature is only available for the administrator from the admin panel. Service domains are created for web sites that belong to the hosting company.

Here you can register a second level domain. For example, the company offers third level domains at besthosting.com, such as thirdlevel.besthosting.com or userdomain.besthosting.com. Naturally, the site of the hosting company should have the second level domain name, i.e. besthosting.com. To manage the corporate website, create a service domain. In the Service Domain Name Registration form select the domain name for the corporate web site: