Inside Tufts University Information Technology

Network Engineering

Web Name Requests

We recommend you use the Tufts University Web. Check with your school or central unit for style guidelines or requirements for departmental pages. You may contact University Relations, Web Communications for templates and guidelines on Tufts' visual identity. Personal pages may also be published on the university web.

If you are running a web server, the standard is for all web names to end with the Tufts domain, which is tufts.edu. A web name such as nutrition.tufts.edu is considered a "high-level" name and requires authorization from University Relations.

If you are interested in a web name using a school's subdomain, for example: med.tufts.edu - a unique name can be easily approved by your school's authorizing group. For information on web naming conventions within your own school, check with your System Administrator, FSP or IT support group.

Usually the web service has a different name than the computer it runs on, for details consult the Internet Computer Naming Convention RFC.

Please email NOC with your web name requests (with an authorization from your school if needed) and allow at least two days to receive your web name. If you are requesting a high-level name that needs University Relations' authorization, it will take longer for NOC to process.

Please note: Don't confuse the web name, which is called an alias or C-NAME in the DNS world with HTTP configuration issues. A web name cannot point at a particular page, it points to a machine. How that web name is handled by the web server on that machine depends on the available configurations of the particular software and the person who configures and maintains the web server software.