[ale] [OT] Website without the site?

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

>From what you've said I wouldn't call it a "website" at all.   Gmail has its own DNS setup as do Facebook and other social media sites.   

Owning a DNS domain name does not require you to actually point to anything.   We have many that point to web pages and/or email but some that are just parked for future use and some that we only use for email.   Of course if you want people to find your MX record for a domain you'd need to have a DNS record for that at the very least.   If you are buying the domain for a third party to send email on your behalf you don't need the record unless you are concerned about people blocking it for spam in which case you'd probably want at least an SPF (or TXT) record allowing them to do that.  From your post I'm assuming what  you actually want to do is avoid REGISTERING a domain.

I've seen a lot of situations where marketing folks setup both a web site and social media but it isn't required to set up one to set up the other. 

Of course if you set up something very successful on Social Media it is possible one of the 10,000 domain squatters that exist will REGISTER a domain and try to sell it to you (or use it for their own nefarious purposes.)


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Leam Hall
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5:34 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] [OT] Website without the site?

I'm starting a new project, and usually get the domain name, an Apache site on a shared host, and the e-mail along with it.

Trying something different to see how it goes. Have the domain name, then picked up a gmail address, blogspot, instagram, twitter, facebook, and a couple other Social Media sites. Not sure I need a web page yet, and saving the money on DNS as I don't need to direct traffic to a specific place.

An experiment for me, anyway. So far results have shown an increase in "We can set up your website" e-mails and calls. Noticed that Oracle bought DynDNS. Bleagh.

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