When setting up a domain that is going to be on a public network the site administrator should contact the organization in charge of the network and request the appropriate domain registration form. An organization that belongs to multiple networks (such as the Internet and BITNET) should register with only one network.
Sites on the Internet who need information on setting up a domain should contact the registrar for their network, which is one of the following:
MILnet HOSTMASTER@NIC.DDN.MIL other HOSTMASTER@INTERNIC.NETYou may also want to be placed on the BIND mailing list, which is a mail group for people on the Internet who run BIND. The group discusses future design decisions, operational problems, and other related topic. The address to request being placed on this mailing list is:
If you want a subdomain of some existing domain, you should find the contact point for the parent domain rather than asking one of the above top-level registrars. There should be a convention that registrar@domain or hostmaster@domain for any given domain will always be an alias for that domain's registrar (somewhat analogous to postmaster), but there is no such convention. Try it as a last resort, but first you should examine the SOA record for the domain and send mail to the ``responsible person'' shown therein. You can also try whois.