Welcome to ProxyTuts’ second Proxy101 article.

Registrar:

Now you have your hosting, you need to get a domain name. You can find a list of all the domain registrars here.

I will stick my neck out and will recommend Namecheap as the domain registrar of choice. There have a great user panel, give you free WhoIS guard. This helps you to protect your domain name’s information being seen by prying users who either want to know who owns it or want to know when it expires so they can nab it for themselves.

Their prices are very reasonable:
.com $9.29/yr
.info $2.98/yr
.net $9.29/yr
.org $9.29/yr
.us $8.88/yr

Choosing your Domain:

The first and most important to consider when buying your domain name is how easy it is to remember it. You do not want a domain name, for example, such as MNd_prx.info. What does the url have in common with the site? How are people going to remember it?

Remember, your main audience are pupils and employees. They need something easy to remember and quick to type.

• Do not get a domain name containing anything to do with the word proxy, and not even anything to do with
  unbanning or a social networking site. Filters which block access to the proxies at schools and work can
  spot your proxy site very easily. With your site blocked, you wont get any visitors.
• If you are going to get a lot of domains, I would get .info domains. As you can see above, they are considerably
  cheaper than other TLDs (com/org/us/net).

Setting up your domain:

You should have received an email or some sort of notification from your hosting provider upon setting up your account. It should say what your nameservers are.

They often look like:
ns1.yourdomain.com
ns2.yourdomain.com

Now, you have to go into your registrar and choose your domain. I am using namecheap. Click on My Account, then Manage Domains, then choose your domain name. Now select Domain Name Server Setup:

Enter into the two boxes your nameservers, like so:

And press Save Changes. You will have to wait a little while (normally an hour or so) for it to propagate (basically its setting itself up). You’re done!

NB. You might, if you chose for the registrar to manage your nameservers, need to transfer the DNS to your webhost

You can then enter the nameservers like above.