How Do I Register A Domain Name?
How Long Will It Take?
Can I Use CGI?
How do I maintain my e-mail accounts?
What settings do I use to transfer files or check my mail?

How do I register a domain name? (www.yourname.com)
You can use any one of numerous registrars to register your domain. The yearly cost to register your domain thru FEN is $20 and is renewable up to a maximum of ten years at a time. If you would like, we can register or transfer your domain name for you, just fill out this form, and we would be more than happy to do that for you. Please be sure to indicate if this is a NEW domain or a TRANSFER of an existing domain. If you prefer to handle this yourself, the DNS information you will need to provide your registrar is:

Primary: NS1.fament.com - 65.173.196.10
Secondary: NS2.fament.com - 65.173.196.11
If you would like us to take the role of Technical Contact:

Name: Eje Gustafsson
E-mail: macahan@fament.com
Address: 1123 S Broadway
City, etc: Pittsburg, KS 66762
Phone: 620-231-7777
Fax: 620-231-4066

How long will it take before I can "see" my website?
When a domain name is placed on our servers it takes a certain amount of time for the internet to accept and refresh all the new domain name changes which have taken place. When these changes have been accepted the account will be fully accessible. This is known as propagation. The propagation times are as follows:

For new domains: Once you receive notification that the registration authority has registered your domain name it can take up to 72 hours for the changes to propagate across the internet. The reason that it takes this long is because the system by which domain name lookup works is hierarchical, and the caches on the servers must time-out before they request new information for a domain.

For domain transfers: We will send a request to the registrar that currently holds your domain name to initiate the process to transfer your domain name to our servers. We recommend that you NOT cancel your service where your domain name currently resides until all transfers are complete and the domain name servers are fully updated. This will prevent loss of access to both your website and your e-mail. The acknowledgement for the approval of the transfer MUST come from the same e-mail address that is on file with your current registrar. If this information is no longer valid, other steps will need to be taken in order to initiate the transfer. Once the transfer is approved and acknowledged, which can take 3 to 7 business days, it can take up to 72 hours for all of the domain servers to update their DNS information.

Can I use CGI Scripting?
Either you can ask to use FEN's cgi-script library and we will set it up so you have access to it, or you can ask to get your own cgi-script directory. Neither is setup by default. If you want to do your own cgi script you have access to perl on the NT server and if you need the path to perl it's e:/perl/bin/perl.exe or if you need complete path to your domain directory it's e:/domains/DOMAIN-NAME (note that domain-name includes .com .org or .net; it does NOT include the www.)

How do I maintain my e-mail accounts?
You can access your e-mail administrative tools at http://mail.DOMAIN-NAME. Log in using your correct e-mail address and password for your new domain. From here you can add, delete and otherwise adminster e-mails for your domain. There is an extensive on-line help file, or if you have any other problems or questions, e-mail or call us.

What settings do I use to transfer files or check my mail?

Your account details are as follows:
FTP: ftp.DOMAIN-NAME
POP3: mail.DOMAIN-NAME
SMTP: mail.DOMAIN-NAME
WEB: http://www.DOMAIN-NAME

For more detailed information about transferring files to our server, see our section on uploading files

Remember that your user-name and password are your responsibility, please keep them safe and don't share them with anyone!