Mimetic Galleries

Many people want a gallery with their own domain name (such as “www.mydomain.com”). To do this, you must “point” your domain name to our website servers. This is done by

1. Asking Mimetic Galleries to set up an account for you, and
2. Changing the “nameserver”, which you do from the website which sold you the domain name.

For example, let’s say I have the name “atelius.com”, and I want it to show a gallery. First, I order a Private or Group account from Mimetic Galleries. Please note, this isn’t the same as the Personal Account you can get when you sign up online.*

Next, after my new gallery is set up, I go to the website where I bought the name, which is www.verio.com. There, I log into my account. I see my domain name — atelius.com — and I see a popup menu of commands. One command is “Edit Namerservers”. I choose that.

Next, I see a small form, with between two and four boxes. Only the first two matter.

Into the box, “Nameserver 1″ I write:  ns1.frontine-photos.com

Into the box, “Nameserver 2″ I write: ns2.frontine-photos.com

That’s all I do. It can take 24 hours before the world recognizes the changes, but when it does, anyone who writes “atelius.com” into their browser will be taken to a gallery.

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* When the Mimetic Galleries creates a Private or Group account for you, you get your own server account, with email, FTP, and everything. Setting this up is a complicated, custom procedure that requires hours of back-breaking work, years of arcane training, magical incantations, and liters of coffee.