Setting the Hostname in IIS Bindings Breaks Website

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I just got a Windows Server 2008 VPS and I'm having trouble getting IIS7 setup.

I created a new website in IIS with the path, ip address, and hostname (like 'www.nameofsite.com') and click OK. When I browse to the site it pulls up "http://www.nameofsite.com" in the browser and... nothing... IE cannot display this webpage.

If I blank out the hostname in the bindings and click [Browse] it works fine (it takes me to http://10.10.2.92 - the computer's ip). So entering the hostname breaks the website.

Any ideas on what I'm missing? Services I might not have running or roles I'm missing?

No server roles were initially installed on the VPS so I installed IIS, DHCP, DNS, and Application Server... overkill, but I wasn't sure what to install.

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