can't create A record with .com

[mhenderson]

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)

mhenderson
mhenderson at jcai.com