The Leadership Team approved a new policy drafted by Steve Judd, David Foote and Hugh Christian regarding the purchase of Internet Domain Names.

A domain name or host name is a name that when entered into the address box on a computer’s WWW browser points/forwards a computer to a specific server on the Internet. For example, our domain name (extension.unh.edu), when typed into the address field in Internet Explorer, points the user’s browser to our web server and our home page appears.

A few staff have purchased domain names which point/forward to specific pages on the extension.unh.edu Web site as a way to have shorter web addresses to use in marketing the site. An example is the NH Coverts domain name, nhcoverts.org that points/forwards to http://extension.unh.edu/Wildlife/NHCovrts/NHCovrts.htm

This policy will standardize and centralize domain name purchases, help our Business Service Center and ITDE staff manage domain name accounts, and help insure our domain name registrations won't expire unexpectedly and be bought by other individuals, organizations or companies.

Anyone who has previously purchased a domain name must transfer the domain to the centralized UNH Cooperative Extension GoDaddy account (instructions are in the attached policy). If you are interested in purchasing a new domain name, please refer to the policy.