1 00:00:00,750 --> 00:00:02,820 Let's take a look at some of the key terms. 2 00:00:03,210 --> 00:00:11,550 So what happens when you have Office 365 or any e-mail based service is you have to decide what's going 3 00:00:11,550 --> 00:00:16,260 to be the actual host name versus the domain name address. 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:21,660 And when I say that, I mean, you know, a host name could be the name of a machine or in the event 5 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:25,290 it's an email address, it could be how your email addresses are going to be assigned. 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,180 So am I going to be to take us? 7 00:00:27,510 --> 00:00:28,590 Am I going to be Sandra? 8 00:00:28,620 --> 00:00:29,920 Am I going to be Sandra B.. 9 00:00:30,330 --> 00:00:35,340 What is it that you want to add to the beginning of that e-mail address in order for me to get e-mail 10 00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:36,510 essentially my nickname. 11 00:00:36,930 --> 00:00:39,300 But then the other part is the actual domain name. 12 00:00:39,630 --> 00:00:46,980 When you start Office 365 and you haven't brought in a domain or done any configuration, it really 13 00:00:46,980 --> 00:00:50,460 starts with something called on Microsoft dot com. 14 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:56,040 So if I wanted to be Sandra, then I would have that piece, the prefix essentially. 15 00:00:56,430 --> 00:01:00,510 Then it would have it basically would ask you what you want to name your domain. 16 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,790 So I might choose Santur Network. 17 00:01:02,850 --> 00:01:09,780 So the entire default e-mail address would be Sandra AdCenter Network dot on Microsoft dot com. 18 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:14,150 Now, for some people, that's absolutely fine and that's going to do the job. 19 00:01:14,190 --> 00:01:15,840 But it is a long e-mail address. 20 00:01:16,230 --> 00:01:17,760 So let's go back to the domain name. 21 00:01:18,330 --> 00:01:20,310 The domain name is what you decide. 22 00:01:20,310 --> 00:01:25,030 You want to have to represent you as an individual if you're just setting this up for you. 23 00:01:25,050 --> 00:01:32,220 Maybe you're a company of one or what domain you're going to use for an Internet presence like W WW 24 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:34,290 dot Santa classroom dot com. 25 00:01:35,010 --> 00:01:39,150 So based on that, you've got to know what domain name you're bringing in. 26 00:01:39,450 --> 00:01:44,220 If you don't have a domain name yet in your brand new to this whole process and you need to reach out 27 00:01:44,220 --> 00:01:45,210 to a registrar. 28 00:01:45,810 --> 00:01:51,360 Now, what I can tell you about registrars is there are two really big ones out there. 29 00:01:51,390 --> 00:01:53,430 That's go daddy and Network Solutions. 30 00:01:53,970 --> 00:01:56,760 I'm not here to advocate for either one of them. 31 00:01:56,790 --> 00:02:01,950 I'll tell you personally, I use both of them because they really are the big dogs in this industry 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:03,570 off of that. 33 00:02:03,690 --> 00:02:11,190 There are literally tens of thousands of people who resell domain names and they resell them super, 34 00:02:11,190 --> 00:02:11,880 super cheap. 35 00:02:12,570 --> 00:02:16,110 I'm half tempted to list off a bunch of them, but I'm not here for bad press. 36 00:02:16,890 --> 00:02:21,720 But what I can say is if it seems too cheap, you know, ten dollars a year, what have you, you have 37 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,900 to be very careful because a lot of these companies go out of business. 38 00:02:25,350 --> 00:02:29,730 And when they do so, you're going to spend the next six months hunting down your domain name to make 39 00:02:29,730 --> 00:02:30,870 changes to renew it. 40 00:02:31,290 --> 00:02:37,410 It really can be a giant nightmare for the extra 20 or 30 dollars a year that you would save. 41 00:02:37,830 --> 00:02:39,390 I would say just don't go there. 42 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:43,140 Stick with some of the bigger names that are much well-known, much better well-known. 43 00:02:43,620 --> 00:02:49,980 And please make sure that username, password and you are all that you bought the domain name are written, 44 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:55,530 documented and hidden in seven different places because a lot of people lose it. 45 00:02:55,710 --> 00:02:57,780 And it's a lot of stress if you do that. 46 00:02:58,290 --> 00:03:00,840 So you decide what kind of domain name you want. 47 00:03:00,990 --> 00:03:04,950 You go out to a registrar, you purchase your domain name. 48 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,500 We always call it purchase. 49 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:11,550 Think of it more as a rental or a lease, because quite honestly, the first time you forget to renew 50 00:03:11,550 --> 00:03:13,920 it, they're going to take it away from you and give it to someone else. 51 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:16,890 So you're really not going to own it less to keep up those payments. 52 00:03:18,540 --> 00:03:21,210 You can buy it for one year, three years, five years. 53 00:03:21,220 --> 00:03:22,080 Ninety nine years. 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,090 It's all up to you and what you want to spend. 55 00:03:24,330 --> 00:03:26,100 And then you have this DNS. 56 00:03:26,790 --> 00:03:30,690 So DNS is can be seen as this big complex beast. 57 00:03:30,690 --> 00:03:36,120 Some acronym out there on the Internet, amines, domain name, server or service, depending on who 58 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:36,810 you talk to. 59 00:03:37,470 --> 00:03:42,720 All DNS is is a server that tracks where to find your domain services. 60 00:03:42,910 --> 00:03:43,440 So. 61 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,860 The first thing you do is figure out what you want to call yourself. 62 00:03:46,980 --> 00:03:49,110 The second thing you do is you register it. 63 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,150 It is here at the register that they have DNS. 64 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,030 Now, in the DNS, you're going to tell it where to go to WW w. 65 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:04,170 So let's say you're going with network solutions are also going to host your Web site. 66 00:04:04,230 --> 00:04:09,330 Those records are going to be filled him or let's say that you register the domain name and you come 67 00:04:09,330 --> 00:04:14,240 to my organization and we're gonna handle the rest of the e-mail and pointing to Web sites ET. 68 00:04:14,910 --> 00:04:21,780 I'm going to go in to DNS and I'm going to say w WW is and I'm going to give it what we call an IP address. 69 00:04:22,170 --> 00:04:24,910 And if you want to think of an analogy of an IP address. 70 00:04:24,930 --> 00:04:26,100 Think of it as a telephone number. 71 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:29,520 Where you gonna go to find that particular Web service? 72 00:04:29,970 --> 00:04:31,740 And then you do the same thing for mail. 73 00:04:32,190 --> 00:04:36,360 Mail is actually called an M X record, which stands for mail exchanger. 74 00:04:36,930 --> 00:04:43,980 And once again, all you're putting in here is an IP address of the server that's handling your mail. 75 00:04:44,370 --> 00:04:45,230 Well, guess what? 76 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,670 You are in Office 365 and you'll see here. 77 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,540 Yes, I'm trying to write with a mouse and it looks like I'm trying to write with a potato. 78 00:04:54,870 --> 00:05:00,720 But other than that bad handwriting, I understand that when you're going through the 365 steps, they'll 79 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,850 tell you what DNS entries you have to populate. 80 00:05:03,150 --> 00:05:07,140 You take those entries, you go back to the registrar and you put them right in. 81 00:05:07,950 --> 00:05:12,390 That's how when someone sends you e-mail over the Internet, that's how they're actually going to find 82 00:05:12,390 --> 00:05:13,050 the mail server. 83 00:05:13,410 --> 00:05:21,750 So if I was to email a friend of mine at Santur Network dot com, as soon as I hit send whatever e-mail 84 00:05:21,750 --> 00:05:25,500 system I'm using, looks at DNS for Sender Network dot com. 85 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:26,970 It finds the IMX record. 86 00:05:27,330 --> 00:05:30,930 It figures out that my mail gets delivered by Office 365. 87 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:35,040 It gets forwarded and they get a chance to get the email. 88 00:05:35,070 --> 00:05:36,600 So that's how they kind of all works. 89 00:05:37,140 --> 00:05:39,510 The good news is it's typically a one and done. 90 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:46,710 And if it's a first time through, I would highly advise that you take the time to reach out to someone 91 00:05:46,710 --> 00:05:50,310 who does I.T. and allow them to kind of help you through the process.