Hosting my own domain for emails and some other stuff

[Hb_Kai]

Yo,

I'm trying to figure out how to host my own domain without having to purchase one and I can't figure it out.

Basically, I want to host my own domain for email and whenever it's finished, a website.

Is there any way I can do this without purchasing a domain from a registrar website and hosting it myself or is this kind of thing impossible to do?

[Seshomaru Samma]

Have you looked here?

basically you need a static Ip and Apache installed and you are good to go

in fact if you are running linux there's a script that will update the DNS servers even if your ip is not static

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

how to host my own domain without having to purchase one

How are you going to do that - steal one? Nobody is going to give you one for free.

Domain names can be registered from about USD 2.00 per year, depending on the TLD. Go to http://www.name.com/, type a domain name (without TLD, e.g. 'hb_kai', then see what's available and to what cost. Some registrars are cheaper than others, and some TLDs (e.g. .cn) are also extrememly cheap. But it all depends what you want.

[Hb_Kai]

I'm not sure. I was just asking if there was a way. But thanks for your help. I've took a look and seems quite helpful. :)

[Panarchy]

The 2nd best free suggestion mentioned;

[you don't need a static IP]

- Use a service such as no-ip.info, hosting your IP with a DNS name on there server. Then I suppose you'd just need to setup a web server, eg; Abyss, Apache, IIS etc.

Hopefully my suggestion didn't come too late!

Panarchy