Maybe you don't like the name radkeland.org. Maybe you want to have your e-mail, website, whatever on imsupercool.com. This is also easy! There are only a few steps involved, and this is one of the few things that actually costs money on Radke Land, mainly because Radke Land has no control over it. So ... here's what you do:
If you would like Radke Land to host your email for your shiney new virtual domain, there are a few things you should know. First, your new email addresses will be aliases to your existing email account. If for some reason, you'd like to have your virtual domain email addresses in a separate machine account, that can be done, just talk to us.
Let' pretend you just got imsupercool.com for your new virtual domain. Your Radke Land machine username is fred. For some strange reason, you believe that people should know you (in imsupercool.com) as bob, cuz you like that name better. The admins here will shrug their shoulders, say "OK", and a few minutes later you'll be able to email to bob@imsupercool.com. When you check your email at fred@radkeland.org, you'll see it there. Let's say you have a business partner associated with your imsupercool.com venture, named Lester. Lester doesn't have an email address on Radke Land, but he does have one at lester@imnotquiteascool.com. No problems there either. We'll set up an alias on Radke Land, and email received for lester@imsupercool.com will be automatically forwarded to lester@imnotquiteascool.com.
These virtual domain aliases must be manually updated, so I recommend you keep your own record of who should get email where, and forward the whole document to us at Radke Land whenever you need a change in your virtual domain aliases.
Wow ... you're either brave or a geek! I have to assume that since you're here, you're comfortable enough to fiddle around with your registrar's settings. What you need to do from outside Radke Land is fairly limited, so let's get started.
When you register your domain name, make sure to provide either valid contact information to the registrar, or use a proxy contact service (and provide them with valid contact information!) Your registrar will likely start using your address right away for their own advertising (this is a 'service' they provide, called parking your domain).
Your next big decision is to decide who should provide your DNS (Domian Name Service). Radke Land provides this service, and it's really not a whole lot of trouble to set up, so feel free to ask me. Whether Radke Land provides your DNS, or someone else does, you still need to know what information goes into your DNS. If you went with the previous example, you may want the following DNS entries:
You also want to think about what happens if someone goes to gobblygookly.imsupercool.com. If you want every subdomain to go to one of your other designated domains, you'll probably want to use a wildcard (*.imsupercool.com). In the list above, are you really going to setup your own mailserver? If you want Radke Land to manage your email, omit the mail.imsupercool.com entry, and set your MX Record to mail.radkeland.org.
If you want Radke Land to manage your DNS, set your name servers to:
ns0.radkeland.org
ns1.everydns.net
ns2.everydns.net
ns3.everydns.net
ns4.everydns.net
And make sure to tell me who's hosting your email, website, and others.
As always, I realize this help page may be a bit messy, please leave comments or requests for clarifications.