DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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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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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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Should I use a domain name registrar's free DNS hosting, or host DNS servers with another company?
Should I use my domain name registrar's free DNS hosting service, or host DNS servers with another company? (or both?)
What are some advantages to using a DNS hosting company separate from the domain ...
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How can I get a history of DNS registration information?
Is there a canonical place that stores DNS registration information? For example for a domain that has changed hands a few times, can I see a listing of the owner information* over time and when the ...
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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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Is it time to add IPv6 access to my websites?
I have several dedicated servers and VPS servers, and some of those are at companies that have provided me with native IPv6 blocks (in addition to the IPv4 IP addresses).
Does it currently make sense ...
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What is the safest way to search for domain names availability?
I am victim of Domain name front running. I searched for domain names on some sites
& I lost those names soon.
Now, what is the safest way to search for availability of domain names ? Using
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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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Is an externally-hosted subdomain a security risk?
A company I've been developing a web site for wants to keep their current domain, which is something like company.parentcompany.com. Because we wanted to use a different CMS, the parent company ...
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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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How can I create an SPF record on my 1and1.com hosted domain?
Emails from my domain (hosted at 1and1, and using Google Apps Premier edition) have sporadically been going to recipients' spam folders lately. I did some research, tested, and found out that I do ...
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Is it okay to have no A records for a domain?
There is one domain I'm using for email only. MX records are set up and everything works. The A records for @ and www are pointing to a machine, which just redirects to google.com.
I am now wondering ...
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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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How to find domain registrar and DNS hosting with good DNSSEC support?
Simplified problem
I want to buy a domain and make a website that is fully secured with DNSSEC.
I want to make sure that only the one right SSL certificate could be validated by the browsers and all ...
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access to site owner not working
I made a website it works for everyone except for the site owner, who cannot access the site. He gets a server could not be found error. I went to his house and the issue occurs for all of his devices ...
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How can I host a website on a dynamically-assigned IP address?
I recently upgraded my internet to the point that it is much faster and more reliable than my current webhost. I would like to move my current domain to be hosted at home, but my IP address is ...
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How to transfer domain from Godaddy to another provider
I'm currently using godaddy for all of my company domains, and I'm very unsatisfied with their service, specially with their site, so we are trying to migrate those domains to another provider. The ...
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Process of automating domain registration?
I have a website where users register domain.com/user/username. I'd like to add a feature where users can search for and purchase a domain name that maps back to that URL.
I'm not sure how big of a ...
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How to test the migration of a domain without actually changing the domain?
I have a somewhat complicated situation. We have a blog let's say at myblog.com and it is running fine. However, we now want to cut the budget and use a free hosting service isgreat.org. The service ...
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Does geographic location of domain registrator matter?
Does it matter where I register my domain geographically when I'm planning to change nameset (nameservers) to a server in my target area?
Example
Target audience: USA
Server location: USA
Domain ...
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Is it possible to find all subdomains for a certain domain?
a client of mine is currently hosting a web-project on one of his servers with some sub domains for previews, testing etc.
Those are really hard to guess sub domains like:
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Reclaim snatched domain name
I'm looking for options to get back a domain name that just expired and was re-registered by an unknown link farmer.
Between extended holidays, bank and hosting provider's opening hours and me the ...
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TXT vs SPF record for Google servers SPF record, either or both?
According to Google’s documentation,
https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723
It clearly says Create a TXT record containing this text: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
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CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?
I have a web site www.somewhere.com and I want the alias fr.somewhere.com.
I set up a CNAME record for www.somewhere.com alias fr.somewhere.com. When a user types in http://fr.somewhere.com in their ...
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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 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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Redirect/rewrite dynamic URL to sub-domain and create DNS for subdomain
I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain.
Dynamic URL pattern:
http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?user_name=testuser
I wish to ...
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DNS A Records with 1and1 and Heroku
I have a domain name registered through 1and1.com that I'd like to point to my Heroku app (mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com).
Heroku's instructions ...
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Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?
I'd like to host a website on Amazon S3. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both example.com and www.example.com?
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Registering single letter domain, selling subdomains? [closed]
I am about to purchase x.yz or a.bc (not those, but same lengths). I want to sell subdomains like rst.x.yz to the public, and would be able to run my own DNS servers for it. Is there a system (iPanel ...
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Alternative to GoDaddy? [closed]
For a number of reasons I'm thinking about slowly moving my domains away from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I don't know of a good alternative, and am looking for a recommendation.
To match what I ...
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Add domain to VPS
I have a VPS server running Ubuntu 11.04 with webmin installed on it. How can I add my example.com domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?
Thanks.
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Find the IP address of expired domains
I want to know the previous hosting IP address of an expired domain. Is there any way find this?
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Point domain to Amazon EC2 Server
I just got a domain from a rather suspicious registrar and I want to point that domain to an EC2 instance from Amazon AWS. I already have an elastic IP ready and just need to point the domain to it.
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How to host a single website on multiple servers?
I'm planning on releasing an iOS app that downloads video from my server. If hundreds of people on the launch day try to do this, then my website and the services that my server provides will clearly ...
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What are CNAME and A DNS Records?
What are CNAME and A DNS records? What are they used for? What is the difference between the two?
Edit: Where does the CNAME record exist? On the server or with the domain registrar?
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Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?
I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still ...
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Is there a point to redirecting our collection of purchased domains?
We have 200+ domain names that we have purchased to prevent them from being poached and misused. These additional domains are not indexed, crawled or linked to. Is there a point to actually setting ...
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Can I have a backup name server?
Is it possible to have a third backup name server in case the first two fail?
Recently I had a site go down for about an hour when a CloudFlare datacenter went down. We have the option of setting a ...
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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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Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com?
Background
From my understanding, http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg, can help the ranking of http://mywebsite.com in a search engine, such as Google (obviously the search engine of primary concern).
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I have an old domain that I'm retiring. How do I set up a permanent redirect from the old domain to the new one?
I originally posted this as one of the defining questions for the site so I thought I'd ask it again.
Currently I have DNS for both domains pointing to the same place but I'd like to set up a ...
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http keep-alive with multiple A/AAAA records
I'm trying to estimate the performance impact of publishing several IP-addresses for a given web-site hostname.
Do browsers choose addresses in a random order?
Do they use the same address for all ...
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Why won't Webmaster Tools let me set a preferred domain? (says to verify, but it should already be)
I've got a domain that I apparently forgot to set a preferred domain for, so I just tried to do it.
Webmaster Tools instead popped up a little box:
Part of the process of setting a preferred ...
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Two name servers?
I was told by my domain registrar that they require two name servers per domain name. I want to host my own DNS (to try it out, this isn't an important website) on my own server. I only really need ...
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Google CDN or Akamai
We combine and minify our JS with Minify - the combined JS is then cached on Akamai. I'm suggesting to my supervisor that we put JQuery and JQueryUI on Google CDN and take it out of our combined JS.
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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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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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enable email on Godaddy when using Zerigo on Heroku hosted app
A little recap of what I have done ... and then my questions Q1, Q2 and Q3
1 - I developed a RoR app that I deployed on Heroku.
biowatts.heroku.com
2 - I bought a domain name at GoDaddy:
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