One way to make the project faster is to pay money for a real domain, such as a .info, from a real domain registrar like 1and1 or godaddy.
Enter a domain name containing your name, such as YOURNAME-CNIT40, as shown below. (Use CNIT40 instead of CNIT106.).
Click Go.
If your name is already taken, keep trying names till you find an unused one.
On the next page, click "Use DNS".
Enter 159.203.238.50 in both "IP address" fields, as shown below.
(This is one of my servers--I chose it just so something visible would appear in a browser. If you have a Web page, feel free to use the real address of your Web page instead.)
Fill in the CAPTCHA, and, at the bottom, click Sign up.
Clear the "Share your new domain" check box.
At the bottom of the page, click the green "email address" link.
Enter your email address and click Next.
Enter a password and name when prompted to and click "Create Account".
Fill in the form, as shown below. Don't enter a password you use anywhere else here, it's sent in plaintext.
Click the "Create Account" button.
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Open your email and click on the link.
Enter the confirmation code from the email message.
You see a message saying "Thank you for registering your domain name", as shown below.
You may see a page, or or you may get an error message like the one below, because the DNS records have not yet updated.
Enter your domain name, which should be something like YOURNAME-CNIT40.TK in the box and click the Search button.
You should see that some of the global servers now know about your domain, but probably not all of them, as shown below.
If none of the servers know about your domain, you need to wait. When I did it, in Nov. 2016, I had to wait 5 days.
On your keyboard, press the PrntScrn key.
Click Start, type in PAINT, and open Paint.
Press Ctrl+V to paste in the image of your desktop.
YOU MUST SUBMIT WHOLE-DESKTOP IMAGES TO GET FULL CREDIT.
Save the image with a filename of "Proj 6xa from YOUR NAME".
To find your SOA servers, in the whatsmydns.net page, change the query from A to SOA, as shown below.
Enter your domain name, which should be something like YOURNAME-CNIT40.TK and click Search.
You should see that your SOA servers are in the DOT.tk domain, as shown below.
In a browser, go to http://cloudflare.com
At the upper right, click "Sign up".
Fill in the form, as shown below, and click the "Create account now" button.
On the next page. enter your domain name, as shown below.
Click the "Scan DNS Records" button.
Wait while a little video plays.
When the green Continue button appears art the lower right, click it.
The next page is titled "Verify That All Of Your DNS Records Are Listed Below".
At the bottom of the page, two DNS records are listed,as shown below.
Notice the yellow cloud icon next to your domain records. This indicates that they will be protected by Cloudflare.
Click the green Continue button.
On the next page, select the free plan, as shown below, and click the green Continue button.
The next page tells you to update your nameservers, as shown below.
Leave this page open. You will need this information later.
Open a new browser tab and go to
Log in with the credentials you chose previously in this project.
The "freenom" page opens. Click Services, "My Domains", as shown below.
On the "My Domains" page, on the right side, click "Manage Domain", as shown below.
On the next page, click "Management Tools", Nameservers, as shown below.
On the next page, click the "Use custom nameservers (enter below)" button, and adjust the nameservers as you were instructed to by cloudflare. The final result should be similar to the image shown below.
Click the "Change Nameservers" button. Return to the Cloudflare page and click the green Continue button.
Enter your domain name, select a search of A, and click the blue Search button.
You should see two IPv4 records for your domain, both different from the IPv4 address you saw previously.
These are reverse proxy servers controlled by Cloudflare. No user will directly connect to your webserver anymore--all traffic passes through Cloudflare first.
You should see that your SOA servers are now cloudflare.com servers, as shown below.
On your keyboard, press the PrntScrn key.
Click Start, type in PAINT, and open Paint.
Press Ctrl+V to paste in the image of your desktop.
YOU MUST SUBMIT WHOLE-DESKTOP IMAGES TO GET FULL CREDIT.
Save the image with a filename of "Proj 6xb from YOUR NAME".
Last Updated: 11-22-16
email fixed 12-5-18