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- [Instructor] Hi and
welcome back to the course.

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In this video, we're going to
be setting up our domain name.

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A domain name is
essentially just a string.

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For example, digitalocean.com

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or schoolofcode.me,

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they are two separate strings.

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The way that domain name system works

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is in such a way that it enables us

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to map those strings to
locations on the internet.

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What that means is once
we've performed this mapping,

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our browser will be
able to use that string

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to access a particular location,

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and that location is the server

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in which we have deployed our app.

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Now, the location of the server

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is determined by its IP address.

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So what we're gonna do is
we're going to map a string,

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our domain name, to the IP address.

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The way we're gonna do that

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is by using the domain name system.

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The first step in setting up our domain

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is we must know our IP address.

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Keep note of that.

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I'm just gonna copy that.

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And then we're going to go over

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to a website called www.namecheap.com.

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There are many of these
websites on the internet.

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I like Namecheap just because of the way

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they conduct their
business and their pricing,

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and what these people do is
let you register domains.

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Now, two different people
cannot register the same domain

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because once they are set up,
it would be very confusing

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which IP address to go to,

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person A's IP address or
person B's IP address.

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Because only a single person
can register a domain,

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we have to select our unique domain

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and we have to actually register it,

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and that's what Namecheap does.

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The first thing we wanna do

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is just go ahead and search
for the domain you want.

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So this is what people
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to their URL bars there,

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their address bars in their browsers.

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In my case, I'm going to go with something

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like rest-api-course-trial.com.

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So just put the domain
that you want in there

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and then press Enter or
press the Search icon

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and then Namecheap starts
looking at the domains

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that we've got available.

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As you can see, rest-api-course-trial.com

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seems to be available

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because we get some
pricing information there.

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So this domain costs 8.51 pounds a year,

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but you can also go for
other sort of domains

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like .code, .club, and so on.

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So what we're gonna do

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is once you have identified the
domain that you really want,

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we are going to add it to the basket

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and then we're going to buy it.

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So as you can see here,

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we're paying for the first
year of registration,

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so that's 8.51 pounds per year

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and the ICANN fee, which is 14 P.

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The ICANN is essentially
what holds the fact

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that you did register this
domain and it is yours.

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So then we're gonna view the cart

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and this is the more
interesting data here.

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As we can see, we've got
the domain registration,

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which is a year, and we can set it

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to auto renew at the end of the year.

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Because I'm doing this just for the course

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and we're not gonna be
keeping this domain,

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we're gonna set the auto renew to false

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but you can keep it as true

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if you want to keep the domain
name rolling year-on-year.

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Next, the ICANN fee as we've identified,

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and finally, something that I
consider to be quite important

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is the WhoisGuard.

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So that also is in a subscription basis,

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so for every year that
your domain is live,

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you'll want a WhoisGuard live as well

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and as you can see, that's
normally 2.29 pounds

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but the first year is free.

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So the WhoisGuard, what does it do?

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Well, when you register a domain,

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you have to give away your details

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and that is your name, your email address,

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phone number, stuff like that.

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You have to give them

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to the domain name
registrar, so Namecheap.

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And then they are going
to use those details

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to register the domain.

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But that does mean that whoever asks

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for the domain details which are public

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will be able to see your
name, email address,

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phone number, and so on,

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which for me, I'm not a big fan of that,

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so that's what the WhoisGuard does.

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It redirects some details to your details

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and prevents your details
from becoming public,

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so the domain will be registered

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with seemingly random email
address and phone number

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but if anything does go that
way, it will go back to you.

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So it prevents the public

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from being able to know
your email address.

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Finally, PremiumDNS, we're
not gonna worry about that.

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It is essentially just a thing that,

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I'm trying to simplify,

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a thing that allows us better
uptime, better reliability,

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when your domain is searched for,

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but we're gonna use a
different service for that,

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which is free, so let's say no to that.

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And then we've got a
subtotal of 8.66 pounds,

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and we don't have a promo code

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but you can look on the internet.

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There are quite a few
promo codes for Namecheap,

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so you can have a look around.

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And once we are ready, and
we're just gonna ignore

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all the rest of this stuff by the way,

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we can just confirm the order.

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Once you've confirmed the order,

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it will ask you to enter
your payment details

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and that's it.

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So we can pay and so on.

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And once we've paid,

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we will have the domain ready for us.

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So let's do that just now

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and I'll see you in the very next section.