found the ANSWER!

[mhenderson]

both myself and my friends upstairs at HP solved this, myself via the zone
file, them via the GUI.

"my answer"
i went to \winnt\system32\dns and opened up the zone file for
secured-registration.com.dns and noticed the following entry:

@   IN    A   207.159.138.14

i then opened up secured-registrations.com.dns and noted that there wasn't
such an entry, so i added:

@   IN    A  207.159.138.21

stopped/restarted dns and it worked.  it also added an A entry for
secured-registrations.com (note the exquisite ".com" there.)

"HP friends' way"

same thing, just through the gui:

created new zone - called it secured-registrations.com, which then created
associated dns file secured-registrations.com.dns.
added A record alias name "www" to "207.159.138.21"
added second A record with NO ALIAS name, but just the ip address, which
then added "secured-registrations.com" with the properties of being part of
the "com" domain.

in checking the secured-registrations.com.dns file, it also added that @
record i mentioned.

thanks for all your time, patience, and help by the way.

~m
Rodrick Su <rsu at tigana.com> wrote in message
news:7ur528$f9o$1 at nnrp02.primenet.com...
> In article <s124oc8s5n611 at corp.supernews.com>, "mhenderson"
<mhenderson at jcai.com> wrote:
> >hi:
> >
> >already have a working entry for (example) secured-name.com (created by
> >previous admin) and trying to create one for secured-names.com.  there
are
> >discrepancies.  the working entry looks like this:
> >
> >www.secured-name.com
> >
> >secured-name.com             SOA     ns1.domain.com, user.domain.com
> >secured-name.com             NS        ns1.domain.com
> >secured-name.com             A         xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >www                                 A          xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >
> >the site i'm trying to create entries for is
> >www.secured-names.com (simply pluralized)
> >
> >what i have showing is:
> >
> >secured-names.com         SOA     ns1.domain.com, user.domain.com
> >secured-names.com         NS        ns1.domain.com
> >secured-names                  A          xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >www                                A          xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >
> >note the key difference that theone that works has the added ".com" in
its
> >first AA record.  don't know how to add that.  if i try to add another
> >A-record, it won't allow the ".com" as part of the host name.
> >
> >clarification:  when i say "works," what i mean is the first one can be
> >resolved in Internet Explorer by typing in either
> >http://www.secured-name.com or http://secured-name.com while the 2nd one
can
> >only be resolved by typing in http://www.secured-names.com and bombs
without
> >the www piece.
> >
> >interestingly, netscape can resolve http://secured-names.com just fine,
but
> >i guess that's neither here nor there.
> >
> >i'm thinking that i created the new domain (zone, whatever) incorrectly.
> >
> >any ideas?
> >
> >(i'm dying here)
> >
>
>
> Small thing.  Do you have a "." at the end of your ".com"?
>
>
>
> [ Rodrick Su       [                                                  ]
> [ rsu at tigana.com   [            Life is a work in progress            ]
>
>