Re: Creating 'vanity' domain names on the fly.

On 9 Jul 2005 02:18:48 -0700, steve.anon@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi - Any help or pointer on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm
> working on something similar to blogger.com. Users sign up and they get
> their own webpage, with a domain name of 'username.blogger.com'.
>
> Since blogger.com is doing it on the fly (as you sign up), I'm sure
> they are doing it programmatically. Anyone has any clue on how they do
> that?

That's _not_ a domain name. That is a _server_ name. In your example
it would be the server: username on the network at blogger.com.

How the blogger.com network handles those dymanic server names, then,
is left as an exercise for the student.

Jonesy
Received on Mon Oct 17 21:04:26 2005