what's the difference between this and bit.ly?
since when are we downvoting questions?
Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly
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Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aha, that's the catch. Thanks for the info.
Not necessarily a catch though. Many (most?) registrars and web hosts provide name servers free for their users (GoDaddy lets you do this for example). If you can add/edit DNS records can point a subdomain anywhere you like.
But, that doesn't mean I'm free to point evildomain.google.com to anywhere I prefer, right?
Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly
#53That's pretty interesting. Somewhat like DDNS, but not as useful? I don't know if I want an ipq.co address, but I just realized - could I use my own DNS hosting (through slicehost, linode, whatever) to assign domain names to arbitrary IP addresses? Like, if I own garlicgargle.com, and I have another system with a static IP, does that mean I can just assign salty.garlicgargle.com to that IP and it works fine? Sorry fo…
DNS is basically a big key-value store. You can point any domain or subdomain to any IP address.
Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily a catch though. Many (most?) registrars and web hosts provide name servers free for their users (GoDaddy lets you do this for example). If you can add/edit DNS records can point a subdomain anywhere you like.
But, that doesn't mean I'm free to point evildomain.google.com to anywhere I prefer, right?
You can do that, but nobody believes your nameserver is authoritative for questions about google.com, so it will only affect someone whom you can persuade to use yours as their default nameserver. Everyone else who asks the "com" top-level domain nameservers who is authoritative for google.com is going to be sent to GOOG's nameservers, not yours, so names you define will be invisible to them.
Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily a catch though. Many (most?) registrars and web hosts provide name servers free for their users (GoDaddy lets you do this for example). If you can add/edit DNS records can point a subdomain anywhere you like.
But, that doesn't mean I'm free to point evildomain.google.com to anywhere I prefer, right?
Also, note that you could have google.evildomain.com - At least until you get a C&D order that is.