[ot] dns questions

[Samuel Hathaway <lsy@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>]

You guys seem to know everything... so I thought I'd ask my stupid question
here even though it's not actually a debian question. I hope you don't mind.

I want to buy a domain name, and use one of my debian boxen as the primary
DNS server for it. I'm already running a caching-only DNS server, and I've
read about how to add  a domain to bind. However, it seems like there's a
catch-22 involved in the registration process. NSI wants me to already have
a name server set up for the domain before I buy it. However, I thought I
would have to own a domain before I added it to my name server. So how does
one do this?

Also, I'm within a university network. Do you think the university net
admins would have to do anything for me to get this set up? I guess I don't
fully understand the system. *sigh*

Thanks for your help,

Samuel Hathaway
Student Consultant
Academic Technology Services
University of Rochester