#A couple inquiries related to registering a subdomain for a gameserver

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dire trout
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Good day. As the title of the post states, I would like to register a couple domains for a custom gameserver for a Retro game we (me and a friend) are working on a mod for. I am still very much a networking noob and am personally more focus on general software. But because our current server provider is problematic for us, we have decided yesterday to selfhost instead.

To help further explain the roadblock I am facing on figuring this out, I should link the server software we plan on using, it is a fork of the Wiilink WFC server caller RetroWFC (Source code can be found on https://github.com/Retro-Rewind-Team/wfc-server/)
we would need nested subdomains for these some services that we intend to run:

mkserver.com
www
nas
naswii
dls1
conntest
*.gs

I really do not know if this explanation does my actual question any justice, so please do tell me if theres more you'd like to know in order to help understand the issue.

My question is: What is the best way to register for this? and how do I go about setting this up (without any real knowledge on how to do this)? What kind of records do I really need?

if it helps, I'd like to claim the domain thf.is-a.dev for this, as THF is the acronym for the screen name of the friend I mentioned above. We would register this under his name as the project belongs to him

mortal ember
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1st problem is that for the main domains we normally allow only portfolio's and not gameservers anymore, so i cant guarantee if you are allowed to do it on the main domain
If its done on a nested subdomain (like nested.thf.is-a.dev) then it would be fine.

Also can you explain what "mkserver.com" and ".gs" is for?

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About the register thing, if its gonna be under your friends name then he should register it on his github account, not you.

dire trout
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mkserver is a placeholder. It would be replaced with thf.is-a.dev when we start hosting.
.gs is a bit hard to explain. it would be one of the nested subomains essentially, as my friend puts it. (See attached screenshot)

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mortal ember
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wait i think i know what *.gs might be used for

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anyways

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the 1st line in my message still applies

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i asked another maintainer and they think it shouldnt be allowed for it to be on the main domain

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aka thf.is-a.dev

solid pier
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@dire trout if you plan to only use the domain for this system that you want to self host, you can I think try the subdomain service https://is-not.cool/

is-not.cool

Free subdomain service operated by CuteDog5695 and trollm8

mortal ember
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anyways

solid pier
dire trout
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I've asked my friend @worthy ruin to join the server

worthy ruin
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Hello, good day everyone!
So, to understand it correctly, I cannot put the gameserver on thf.is-a.dev, instead I would have to put it on something.thf.is-a.dev

Just to make sure, I have to put the servers IP into "CNAME", right?

I am very new to domain hosting so my questions might be stupid

mortal ember
worthy ruin
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Just to make sure I understood everything correctly. Is there anything that I need to add?

  "owner": {
    "username": "ToadetteHackFan",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "records": {
    "A": [
      "148.251.188.122"
    ]
  }
}```
mortal ember
worthy ruin
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Alright, thank you

worthy ruin
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What about stuff like www.gs.ikwthf.is-a.dev. Do they need to get registered individually?

mortal ember
mortal ember
worthy ruin
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Like this I assume? Content of the files are identical

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