How to Register a New Domain with the InterNIC

NOTE: The InterNIC is now charging $100 to register a domain name and $50 a year to maintain a domain name. See Fee for Registration of Domain Names for more information.
It is also important to review the appropriate policies.

Verify that the domain is not already in use using whois.

If the customer wants SKY Internet to provide secondary DNS, it has to be requested. You must have confirmation from SKY Internet specifying the assigned secondary DNS server before proceeding.

To register a new domain name under ROOT, COM, ORG, NET, EDU, or GOV, fill out the InterNIC WWW Domain Name Registration Template or fill out the template available from:

ftp://rs.internic.net/templates/domain-template.txt

You must save the template to your local system, review and complete the template, and then email the template to the appropriate address.

Note:

• COM is for commercial, for-profit organizations
• ORG is for miscellaneous usually non-profit organizations
• NET is for network infrastructure machines and organizations
• EDU is for 4-year, degree granting institutions
• GOV is for United States federal government agencies

Completed templates for ROOT, COM, ORG, NET, EDU, or GOV domain names should be sent to hostmaster@internic.net.

SKY Internet will help its customers register domain names with the InterNIC. Requests should be sent to dns-admin@skyinet.net

However, SKY Internet does not register domain names for our customer's customers. That is, if SKY Internet's customer is also an Internet Service Provider, they must submit domain requests for their customer's to the InterNIC themself.

Directions are available in the document:

ftp://ftp.skyinet.net/pub/dns/info/domain-info.txt

Questions regarding domain registrations can be directed to dns-admin@skyinet.net

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