> >From what I saw earlier, it only costs $70 to purchase such a name??

It costs about $70 to register the name. Then you've got to pay an annual fee
to keep that name. Domainnames.com goes for $150 and that includes two years
worth of the name. As far as I understand (which isn't very far), this address
(http://www.birthright.net) can either act as a redirector (when you type in
www.birthright.net it transfers you to
http://www.chariot.net.au/~hoss/birthright/) or the domain name can be installed
into the server (which costs money with most hosts because it takes work). So
with the latter option you could get Geocities (hypothetically, I don't know if
they allow this) to install www.birthright.net on their server (for some $$) and
then your page is access from www.birthright.net but is still on the same hard
disk (or whatever) at geocities as it was when you had the long geocities
address. From what I've read, many free servers (Geocities, Tripod, etc) will
discontinue service if your free page is "linked" to from a regular domain name
(the former option described above) or if it gets too many hits.

Am I right here?

- -Andrew