[comp.mail.misc] Obtaining a Domain name

gumby@ucrmath.ucr.edu (john donahue) (02/05/91)

Could someone send me a file (if it exists) that explains how one can
create their own domain to be used with smart mailers (ie: distributed
along with the maps in comp.mail.maps)? I am setting up several systems
with a BBS program I've written, and want to be their gateway (it's
sort of complicated: a network already exists of other BBS systems
running on non-Unix machines but whose BBS software emulates Unix,
and this network can exchange information with my system(s)). Anyhow,
these older systems have a domain handling things for them now, but
things move slowly because none of the machines multitask (and for
various other reasons) so I'd like to move them to my domain since
my system is pretty fast as has this Internet site as a neighbor and
news/mail feed site. I'm just curious about how this works, and whether
it's a political thing or I simply need to make a request to "the person
in charge" (perhaps someone at rutger since that's where the maps are
registered?).

Thanks for any help!

-- John