DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?
Client's domain is registered with GoDaddy where they have a mail-only plan at the moment. Now web hosting has been set up elsewhere and we need to point web service to the new host while retaining ...
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How long does propagation of newly registered private name servers typically take?
I have an account with Hostgator, and have registered private name servers (ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com). How long should I expect to wait for those changes to take place? Should my ...
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What is the maximum number of DNS A-records you can use on one domain?
Is it correct that there is no limit to how many DNS A records can be set on a domain?
My boss asked me this and it made me curious, I can't find anything online.
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Can I change the cname of my domain to any other domain I want?
I own a domain name can i change it's CNAME to make it point to any other domain that I don't own?
Example: I own a domain name (balh.com)
can I make it an alias for google.com and yahoo.com?
means ...
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Does the “canonical name” in DNS make any difference to search engines?
Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent.
Which is the ...
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SEO and multiple domains to same site
I have one website.
I have two domain names that I want to point to the same site install.
So whether you go to name-one.com or name-two.com you see the exact same site.
Now, I can either set up ...
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Redirect/Rewrite Subdomain to Subfolder
I'm trying to redirect a subdomain to a subfolder e.g. forums.domain.com to www.domain.com/forums
Note that I started the forums in the subfolder format but worried that members might mistakenly try ...
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DNS takes too long to resolve
I have a site and its load time needs improvement. When I monitor it, the DNS takes too long to resolve.
Pls see the results here: ...
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Does registering a domain for 10+ years help search rank?
I've heard that registering a domain name for a very long time, say 5 to 10+ years, can help with your search rank.
This seems at least plausible to me, since a fly-by-night, massive domain name farm ...
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Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers?
I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price.
I've looked at the usual suggestions ...
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How many domains to split components across?
I understand how splitting components across domains can maximize parallel downloads, and enable you to have cookie-free static content domains, but since there's a time cost for each domain lookup ...
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DNS hosting better managed by Domain provider or Hosting provider?
Is it better to let DNS be managed by Domain Provider like GoDaddy/Namecheap or point the nameservers to hosting providers like Linode? What are the differences and disadvantages/advantages of both?
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Is there any way to redirect one domain to another via DNS settings keeping the path information?
For example, my domain is example.com and when someone navigates to example.com/sample/page.htm, I want it to redirect to test.com/sample/page.htm.
I know that this can probably easily be done using ...
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?
If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers.
Example:
1.1.1.1 A example.com
1.1.1.2 A example.com
1.1.1.3 A example.com
But how does web ...
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How can my site detect mobile phones and switch visitors to a mobile Domain?
My Question is that when user enter the website: http://www.example.com then they will just go to automatically to http://www.example.mobi how can i do this .. is their any technique behind that.
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how to deploy my jboss servlets to GoDaddy and make it available to my Android client?
I have my web application running in jboss on my pc, accessible only in localhost. I have seen in sites like godaddy, they talk about giving a domain name to your site.
My application only serves ...
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What percent of visitors should click on the next page before you enable prefetching?
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome support prefetching via an HTML tag:
<!-- in chrome -->
<link rel="prerender" href="http://example.org/index.html">
I suppose it is always worthwhile ...
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DNS MX and NS entries
I was wondering about my domain and if next is afordable.
First of all this is my "architecture":
Domain registration at GoDaddy.com
Hosting at Dreamhost
mail at google apps
Until now I setted ...
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How to make so that a first domain name redirects to second one but the URL displays the first domain name?
I have first domain name registered with some domain name registrar, for which I don't have web hosting account, only dns hosting.
I have second domain name registered with godaddy, with web hosting ...
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changing CNAME record, will it affect existing email addresses
I need to forward a domainA to redirect to domainB. I've been doing this via CNAME records but for this situation I need to leave email addresses for domainA intact and unaffected while redirecting ...
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What is needed to add DNSSEC to my site?
What is needed to add DNSSEC to my site?
Is it like HTTPS/SSL that I have to buy a certificate, or can I generate one myself to use? Is there any free way I can use DNSSEC or do I have to pay for ...
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How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager
so I've set www.mydomain.com to point to ghs.google.com, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to mydomain.com, it doesn't redirect/forward to www.mydomain.com, it just hangs. is there a ...
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Only I can access my hosted website! [closed]
Problem Background
I have bought a domain from bigrock.com and hosted website on their server.
Initially, I was not able to access my site with its name e.g.: www.sitename.com, but it was ...
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Attemping to setup Domain NameServers but it doesn't appear to work
Im having a little trouble setting up my domain redirect. The domain name is registered with Namesco and the hosting is on wiserhosting. wiserhosting has provided me nameservers of
Nameserver 1: ...
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Recommended Site Redundancy Options
I am developing a site for a client who is emphasizing "no downtime allowed".
Now even cloud hosting doesn't provide a 100% up-time promise, so I've been thinking about mirrored hosting, where if ...
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LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?
Trying out LaunchRock, and ran across this:
general-instructions-for-creating-your-cname-record
Basically as far as I'm able to tell they only support using your sub-domain as the URL, not having ...
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Control Content Hosting, DNS Hosting and Registration with command line?
I am fed up with Blogger's odd error msgs and Go Daddy's automatic replies to questions. They have never mentioned the word "DNS Hosting" to me, apparently the thing I am missing. I would really love ...
