news@roaima.freeserve.co.uk wrote in message news:<be8p01-14e.ln1@moldev.cmagroup.co.uk>...
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu> wrote:
> > You can either pick a reserved domain name or use some unlikely to be used
> > top level domain name and have your cache be told to use your DNS servers
> > to get that information rather than start at the roots (to protect against
> > the off chance that ICANN decides to sanction the TLD you picked).
>
> Absolutely. I used "roaima.lan" for my internal network before I got
> round to registering my own domain(s).
>
> Regards,
> Chris

So to have a domain name work outside of my lan, I need to register
the domain name with one of the many registerars (pardon my spelling)
on the web and delegate it to my dns server. ...Correct? Is there
anyway I can get my domain registered externally for free (set up any
new servers or purchase any equipment...software etc)?

By the way thanks for all the replies, Im new at this and its been
very helpful.
If you have any good sites or books about this subject I would
appreciate your reccomendations.