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Is it possible to change the hostname of my network? Right now my hostname is the same as my IP address, and I would like to change it to an actual domain. Anyone know how to do this?
 
Yeah. For example, comcast it would be something like @*hsd1.il.comcast.net. When I moved, I got my IP as my hostname instead of something like that.
What could I do with my own domain name? Where would I get it from?
 
Domain names are just fancy ways of getting a plain numeric IP. When your computer looks for google.com, it's looking for a DNS server, looking to see what IP address is associated with google.com, and then it accesses that IP address. The browser will tell you it's google.com, but it's actually, for example, 72.14.207.99 (this is what my DNS search found). http://www.google.com is the same as http://72.14.207.99 but "google.com" is easier to say and remember.

You basically go to godaddy.com or some other place that sells them, give them however much for some domain name, and they'll spread the data associating your IP address with that particular domain name you bought, so anytime someone access Titaniumsdomain.com or whatever, it directs to your computer. If you don't have a server of some form there, it's pretty much useless.

You can do this to single IPs, I'm not sure about doing it to a whole network.

Edit: Unless you mean subdomains. I've never worked with subdomains but I don't imagine it's hard once you've gotten the domain name. A subdomain wouldn't be [email protected] or whatever, that'd be an email address probably, it'd look more like alloy.titanium.com.
 
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dyndns.com. that is a good, free way to do it. you dont get a personal domain but it is a start
 
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