How To Get A Domain Name For Your Minecraft Server

What is going on everybody so today I’m gonna be giving you guys another tutorial um before we get into it I just want to say thank you all for 3000 subscribers that’s insane I never thought that I’d get that many or I never thought that my videos we could

That much feedback and I really appreciate it so yeah if any of these videos help you guys be sure to subscribe be notified when I drop future tutorials and videos you can leave a like if this helped you that’d be great and really appreciate it

As well I also have a bunch of other minecraft tutorials I’ll put a card up in the corner of the screen just so that you guys can get an easy link to that but I basically it’ll show you guys how to install the server how to change your

Message of the day how to edit your separate properties all the commands some simple fixes if you guys have any questions at all go look through that list before you a comment down below and if you haven’t seen an answer to your question definitely comment or find a

Way to ask me directly you can always join my discord server there’ll be a link for that in your description as well um also if you guys have any video suggestions for future videos other tutorials you want me to do be sure to drop those down below as well so let’s

Get into it so today I’m gonna be showing you guys how to mask your IP address of the domain name if you don’t know what I mean by that let me show you real quick so just for an example you set up your server you have it all

Running we have ours going right here to join this you’d have to give your friends your external ipv4 address if you don’t know how to join or what to give out to your friends I have an entire another video explaining what to do there I’ll be linking that as well in

The description I’ll put a card in the top right right now for that as well um yeah so basically the number you’re gonna be getting out to your friends is gonna be your public IP address let me just I’ll just make up one right now

75.2 to 5.2 14.2 3 all right we’re gonna say that this is our IP address I just made it up off the top my head but yours will look similar to this in format now let’s say you don’t want to be giving out your public IP address in the

Internet you’d rather give out something like my serve dot-com you know what I mean like my domain name is voice dev comp so I have a subdomain of my website MC boys dev comm and if you type this in you can join a minecraft server it’ll redirect

You to my IP address now I’m going to show you how to set something like this up today I had to pay for the dot-com I had to go through a service I use GoDaddy but there are services like Squarespace domains com where you can go

On and you can purchase the dot-com and that basically lets you own this domain and you can link it to whatever you want um in our case we’re gonna be linking it to a minecraft server but that’s how you can get like a dot-com name you can get

A free one which is what I’m gonna be showing you guys how to do today but it’s not gonna be a dot-com you’ll be able to pick what you want in the beginning so it’ll be something like my server ddns dotnet you’ll have this at the end of it but it’ll work essentially

The same as this right here um but um there’s a free service called no IP that I’m gonna be showing you guys how to sign up with and set something like this up on right now so you’ll be able to give out this to your friends to join

Instead of this and that’s our goal today so first thing we’re gonna want to do is go onto Google and let’s just go to the website I’m just gonna do a quick Google search on no IP and right here the first thing we get is no IP comm go

Right to it and it looks like this the first thing we’re gonna want to do is we’re gonna need to sign up right here in the top right and I’m just gonna use a temp fake email you guys can use whatever whatever you want so this will

Be mine right here I’ll copy it and hopefully it works sometimes they don’t but if you guys ever need a free temporary email just google it and you can use it you get a free inbox if you guys want to sign up for a service and don’t want all those spam emails so

We’re just gonna set a quick a quick password it’s not gonna let us use that not strong of a password so let’s try this there we go um and this is where we’re gonna get to choose our host name so we can either create it later we can create

It right now I would recommend creating it right now and our our host name is just gonna be called boys test server because I know it’s probably not taken so it’s gonna be a voice test server and we don’t want dot hop to org we want

These are the only free ones you get to choose from I prefer ddns dotnet because it looks too clean instead of all of these so I’ll choose that might actually get some not doesn’t seem like it but yeah so we’ll set that up and then you come down

Here and you can see you can have a freed plan right here now the downside of the free plan is every 30 days you’re gonna have to sign back in to this website and renew it it’s totally free to keep doing that but if you don’t

Renew it after 30 days this will stop taking effect so I’m gonna opt out of the emails except you have to make sure you accept their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and click free sign up and I can’t use that email address so let me try a different one

And free sign up there we go so after you get it to work I’m just gonna save this up here just so you don’t forget it and it says thank you for creating a new IP dynamic dns account so now we need to confirm our account so we got to go back

To our email and we got to go down to the email right here so be in your email and you got to open it up and you got to confirm the account with the link it says your account is now active so perfect now we get to go in and we get

To manage our DNS so we’re gonna go to believe okay so after you’ve accepted the email you can come into here and go back to the main page you’re gonna want to go to manage domains at the top and over here at the top you’re gonna want

To go to I believe it’s dynamic DNS and no IP host names and you can see down here we have our voice test server dot hop to org be the reason why I didn’t change the end of it was because when I did the email wrong I didn’t change the

Suffix again so we’re just gonna leave that for now and you can see that it automatically took my external ipv4 address don’t worry guys I didn’t docks myself this is why I’m not a VPN right now so it took the VPNs the ipv4 address and

I stuck it in there for my target now let’s say that I want to make sure if this is correct I want to make sure that one this is gonna redirect to me so what I want to do is I want to go in I’m just

Gonna look up what my IP v4 is so I’m just gonna Google oh what is my IP v4 and we’ll come down what is my P comm will show me that my public ipv4 is 108 s 62.4 9.15 8 that’s exactly what it is here so now since this is active anybody

On the internet that types in this will be redirected to this IP address so if I have my minecraft server running on this IP address they no longer need to type this in they type this in so unfortunately I don’t have a good way to show

To you guys and test this out because this is only something that your friends are going to be able to type in because let’s say we I set this up and then I want to connect to my own server I’m not going to be able to connect to my own

Server using the domain name I’m still going to have to type in 0 or localhost that’s not going to change but what’s going to change is you’re not going to have to give out your public ipv4 address to other people you’re just gonna have to give out this this domain

Name right here that you created and linked to your IP address so that helps basically you know makes you feel a little more safe if you don’t want to be just you know posting your IP address out on the Internet you can post this in a forum or something and you guys should

Be aware that it’s very easy to just reverse this DNS and figure out your IP address so it doesn’t by any means hide it or basically prevent anybody from seeing your IP address all it really does is just give you something easier to type in but yeah so once all of its

Setup right and if you have port forwarded your server and people are able to join your server using this number now they’ll be able to join your server using this so that’s basically all there is to it and like I said every 30 days you’re gonna have to come back

Like it says right here and I guess you can upgrade you can pay money and it will never expire but since we want to do this for free we have to come back every 30 days they’ll send you an email and you just come back you confirm your

Hostname and then it’s good for another 30 days so it’s pretty simple and on a free account you can actually set up three of these to go to three different places and you can make as many accounts as you want to be honest so it’s a great

Service I recommend it this isn’t they didn’t pay me to say this or anything doing this truly because I like their service I use it and I think it’ll help a lot of you guys out as well so that’s pretty much all I have for this video

Guys unfortunately I guess I don’t have a very good way to test this out and show you but it should work and if you guys have any questions about this be sure to drop a comment down below and like I said I’m always available on

Discord you guys can add me or join my discord server there’ll be a in the description and if you have any other questions about any other minecraft tutorial topics I do have my I have a playlist that I’ve made with all my other tutorials in it I’ve made a

Bunch at this point basically how to create a server how to change the message of the day how to color code stuff how to edit your server properties upload custom maps to your server all that kind of stuff because I see you guys asking these questions over and

Over again in the comments and I already have videos form on my channel you guys just have to go look and actually in the description of this video I will list them all out as well for you guys so once again thank you guys for 3k subs

We’re gonna keep going with this and if this has if this video helped you out in any way be sure to leave a like and subscribe for future videos that’s gonna be it for this one so thank you all for watching and I’ll see you guys in the next one