URLS AND DOMAIN NAMES

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator or "web address") is a web address. www.sti.net is a URL. As part of each Internet access account, every STI subscriber is entitled to at least 10MB of web page storage on our servers, up to 500MB of outgoing file transfer, and an STI Members URL that contains one of your email addresses, such as http://members.sti.net/yourname.

A registered domain name is of the form: www.yourcompany.com. These are usually used by those doing business through web pages, or who engage in some sort of commerce. The domain extension:

.com is appropriate for commercial enterprises.

.gov is reserved for government entities.

.edu for 4-year educational institutions.

.org for non-profit organizations.

As a service to our customers, STI will register domain names to be hosted on our servers. Please contact us or email webmaster@sti.net to register a domain name and set up a web hosting package. See our pricing page for associated domain and web hosting fees. For more information on domain names, click here.

UPLOADING WEB PAGES

A web page is a file and associated graphics stored on a web server and made available to the world through a unique Internet address. For your web page to be viewable, it must be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) software to your directory on your host's web server. See Web Pages You Create for more information on uploading your own web pages.

If STI designs or creates web pages for you, the uploading process is part of our service. See Web Design Services for more information.

If you wish to move your domain registration and/or web hosting to STI from another service provider, please read this important information.