I know this has nothing to do with web hosting, but it has something to do with domains.

I have no clue to if this is true or not, so please don't freak out on me.

But, my friend said on Windows NT4, you can register domains ABSOLUTELY free. No registering fee, nor hosting fees. I personally think it's B.S., but can someone tell me if it's true or not?

Thanks for your help.

Unless your friend meant there is a free registrar called "Windows NT4", I don't see how that would make sense. :)

Euh, well if it is your NT and you host a site on it, then I guess you do not have to pay hosting fees ;)

And if you host by IP (by having ppl type in 281.152.25.8 instead of the domainname) you have a free "url"

However if someone came to me and said, "hey, I own an NT so gimme free hosting" I'ld roll my eyes like this:rolleyes:

In short...yes, it's B.S;)

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Your friend has "domains" and "domains" confused. Easily done. For some reason Microsoft called the NT "workgroup" a "domain", even though it is irrelevant to an "internet domain name." In fact, I don't think NT domains can even contain a period, let alone ".com" etc. It's supposed to be like "SALES" or some descriptive junk like that. Then there's forests and trees.... Netware... sorry.

Under NT it'll do it's own name resolution, so you can essentially make up host names, etc, etc, but it only works locally - nobody outside the network can see your names. This is technically true with any operating system - you can configure a local DNS record and have any domain name you want. You can be microsoft.com for all it cares. But outside your little network it doesn't exist.

[Now, to get more complicated, Win2000 has dynamic DNS support and now a Win2K domain *can* be the same as your public domain, and even be publicly routable. But I've run into some horrible messes, especially if you try to mix Linux and Windows servers, because the windows servers will try to kick out the linux DNS records.]

But that's where your friend is getting the idea. Yeah, NT has domains but they're not the same as a DNS domain, and in any case it's not routable so it's worthless outside your net. You gotta go through a registrar.