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   1 If you want to host a domain name with us, you'll need to pick a registrar and sign up with them. For those who don't know, the domain registrar business was demonopolized years ago, so you have a choice between hundreds of registrars who compete for your business. [http://www.godaddy.com/ GoDaddy] is the current leader in new domain registrations, and AdamChlipala and a number of other hcoop members use and recommend it.  [http://www.gandi.net/ GANDI] is a French registrar who has a nice English-language site and is highly recommended by FrankBynum, since they are the only registrar that declares in the agreement that you actually own the domain name.
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   3 The only technically important thing about a domain name registration is providing the addresses of name servers to provide authoritative information on the domain's hosts. If you want to use our standard hosting setup, the name servers you give should be:
   4 {{{
   5 ns.hcoop.net
   6 ns2.hcoop.net
   7 }}}
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   9 It takes a while for DNS records to propagate to all ISP's once you register a domain. Once your local DNS server knows about the new domain, you can start setting it up. Visit [https://members.hcoop.net/portal/domain the portal] to request access to administer your domain with DomainTool.
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  11 == If this doesn't work ==
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  13 === "SOA serial mismatch" ===
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  15 At least one domain name registry (NIC-SE, which handles the .se domain) has been known to have problems with djbdns, the DNS software HCoop is using.
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  17 This error is reported as "SOA serial mismatch".
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  19 In the case of .se, it works to just specify one authoritative DNS server:
  20
  21 {{{
  22 ns.hcoop.net
  23 }}}
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  25 Hopefully this will work for any registries with this problem.