Domains are hostnames that identify Internet Protocol (IP) resources such as web sites. They provide a human-friendly, easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources.
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Are hyphens bad for domain names? [duplicate]
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Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ?
I would just trying to think of a popular website
that has hyphens in its domain, and honestly - I was having
problems ...
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What DNS records are needed to point a domain to an IP address?
I have a newly registered domain ice-hot.co.uk which I have bought from 123-reg.co.uk and I want to point it to IP address 94.76.224.52 which is a VPS hosted by a different company.
What DNS records ...
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Domain manager to consolidate many domain here and there
I have about 20 domains to manage. Some registered to the client (i impersonated him) and other register by me, under different name and address (over the years).
I like to get ALL THE DOMAINS under ...
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Blogger not redirecting
I bought a new domain staygeo.com and pointed my blogger blog to gis.staygeo.com. I have checked the box in blogger publishing settings saying Redirect staygeo.com to gis.staygeo.com. Still if I just ...
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Registering a domain name for someone else with my billing information
I want to register a domain for someone using my billing information (credit card) but all the contact information are the ones of this person.
Once I get the domain, I will transfer the logins of ...
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Forwarding emails not working
I bought a new domain for myself. I got an email account free with the domain. Inorder to access mails through my gmail account I set up auto-forwarding all mails from my domain's webmail. Now the ...
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Registering a web-domain with different TLD
I am planning to buy a web-domain for myself. I am looking for a particular word combination and in the process I notice many combinations are already taken up in .com TLD. If someone owns ...
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Purchasing domains from “unstable” country TLDs
Is there any risk associated with purchasing a domain with a TLD for a politically unstable or authoritarian country?
ex, if I purchase a .ly domain and there is a dramatic political change in Libya, ...
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Is it possible to do bulk domain name expiration lookups?
Does anyone know of a way to perform bulk-lookups on domain names and their expiration dates or whois information? I'm thinking anywhere from 10 to 500 lookups at a time.
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Buying a web domain
I am planning to redirect my blog at blogger to my own domain. But I am confused by various options available outside. I see options like domain registration, bundled site hosting, design templates ...
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domain, subdomain and ranking
we have a well ranking site on the domain(e.g. www.test.com) running for 2 years having good PR i.e. 5 and the site having its 400000+ url indexed and then we have a new site on the subdomain(e.g. ...
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How do I create DNS records
My domain points to a rails app hosted on Heroku. Is it possible to have blog.mydomain.com point to a WordPress installation somewhere else, e.g. Dreamhost?
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Buying/registering domain name [duplicate]
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Who is a great domain registrar company?
What is the best place to buy/register a domain name? (eg. to get a web site like www.mysite.com) Also, once I have that how can ...
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Will pointing a domain name away from an old site to a new site hurt SEO?
I developed a new site for one of my clients and used a new domain name. His old site (made in 1998) is still the #1 hit for our key search term, so we'd like to have that hit point to the new site. ...
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Redirecting different domains to your main site
My main domain is domain.com (for example), but i want to buy:
domain-dragon.com
domain-killer.com
and on and on
and redirect (301) to my main domain - domain.com, is this considered as a ...
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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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mapping naked domain (www.domain.com) to static website which is saved in s3
I am developing an web application, I recently purchased the domain from godaddy.com and the domain is use google apps, for email, calendar docs and other services as well.
Now I just need to show ...
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godaddy domains, no bids, should I wait for expire?
I'm interested in a godaddy domain name that's on auction.
The domain name has no bids on it. Should I wait for the auction to end and then buy it afterwards or should I bid in the auction?
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How does Amazon.com renew or buy its domain names?
It's hard to believe that Amazon goes to a site like Godaddy.com to buy or renew domain names. Do they use registrars? If not, how do they buy & renew domains?
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.co domain worthy for main site? [duplicate]
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.CO Domains. Worthwhile?
Thought of a great name for the idea of my site, but the .com has already gone.
However the .co is available.
Is that common enough to use as ...
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godaddy url forwarding while keeping relative path
I'm hosting my website on Google app engine and my domain name on Godaddy.
Google app engine does not allow you to have naked URLs. So it doesn't allow you to have example.com but does allow you to ...
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How to forward a domain without an absolute link
We have multiple sites within our server:
We mostly use a www.example.com/businessid=21 type URI format.
Unfortunately, we've changed the DNS for domain www.example.com to another server.
One of ...
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Subdomain versus new domain
Im adding a blog to a site. Would it be better for SEO to put it at blog.example.com or at www.exampleblog.com? I already own www.exampleblog.com .
Would combining the words together to exampleblog ...
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One domain, multiple IP addresses
I have a domain-name, and I want to host the website on two servers. One server is located in Europe and one in Asia. How can you route European people to the European server and Asian people to the ...
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A frequently updated mixed bag blog OR several seldom updated niche sites?
I am a member of a website where I have about a hundred articles (and I'm always writing more.)
Aside from temporary problems I would deal with when removing content from the and putting it on my own ...
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Old Domain Pay-per-click
So you know when you go to a domain that say you want to buy, and the only thing that comes up is a bunch of links to other sites, and stuff like that?
How do I set something like that up for my old ...
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Getting a domain name owned by someone else? [duplicate]
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Buy a registered domain?
I'm in the process of creating this website, but the name I wanted for the hosting seems to be taken. Namejet seems to be auctioning it, but it ...
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Does the registration of a country name like spain.com is exclusive to the government?
Can an individual to buy a domain name containing only the name of his country or those domains are available for registration only to the government? For example spain.com, france.net, etc.
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Domain masking (and simple page links)
How do you set up the domain (Im using godaddy) to mask the server url but to append the sub-page link.
Im thinking something like the wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/something (or, if it would ...
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Domain transfers - handling the downtime
This is something that has arisen several times and we don't quite know how to handle it, all suggestions are welcome!
We have a few different domains with other companies that we want to transfer to ...
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Domain name coining issue
I've found two keyword search from Google keyword tool:
"K1 run" (Phrase match,320,000 local monthly searches)
"K2 run" (75,000 local monthly searches)
K1,K2 are not dictionary word while run ...
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Selling domain names for a reasonable price [closed]
So I have this domain name "theverbproject.com" that I bought back in December. I recently got an offer for 150.00. I'm debating whether I should sell it or hold out for however longer it takes for ...
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RewriteRule not working for certain URLs
There are a few domains pointing towards the same server, and of course I need them all redirect to only one of them.
Redirects work, but only for certain URLs.
What works: http://www.domain.com, ...
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Is it possible fight against domainers?
these days I have looking for a domain for my web application, but I've realized that the 99% of them are bought and of these the 9/10 are from domainer speculators.
"Welcome to the real world" maybe ...
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Domain name record with a /somethinghere.aspx
I'm not very savvy with domain names.
Basically I have a dedicated Windows hosting server for a web application that is located at a location like this:
123.234.345.456/script.aspx
I need to map a ...
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How do I optimize SEO for a domain with an “exotic” (.st) TLD?
What are the gotchas to optimizing SEO for a domain on an exotic TLD (in my case, .st)?
For example, should I tell Google the actual geographic target of the website?
One more thing: I want to rank ...
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Domain registrar that doesn't encourage domain 'speculation'
Dealing with domain 'speculators' has been getting me down recently. Then I noticed my current registrar, name.com, have some deal with a domain auction company to list "premium" domains on their ...
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Multiple domain names
I have a client that want a website with a single domain name with many different extensions like :
somedomain.com
somedomain.org
somedomain.net
somedomain.mobi
somedomain.tv
...
Just to be sure ...
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Site on 2 hosts
is there a way yo add 2 hosts per domain so if i host dies it automatically switches to the other one?
or if its slow you can easily switch to the second host?
Thanks!
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SEO domain redirect?
Lets say I have the following domains:
Example.com
Example.net
example-two.com
example-two.net
Example-two.com and example-two.net redirect (godaddy domain forward) to a sub directory on ...
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What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?
I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
As far as i know these are methods,
301 HTML redirect from www to ...
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How do I purchase a parked domain?
I've found a domain name that I'm interested in buying, but it's parked. A few questions stick out in my mind:
How do you contact the owner of the domain to make an offer? Just e-mail the ...
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Why not “DOT lol” domains?
How would one go about creating a website using the ".lol" domain? Is it even possible? And if not, why not?
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Will registering a .info domain have any SEO impact?
Just to save money as my domain list gets longer, I want to book in advance domains.
I want to save money by buying .info domains rather than .com.
Will it affect SEO rankings in any way?
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain
I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it ...
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Someone registered a domain through google, how can I redirect that url to another site?
I need to be able to automatically redirect a URL that was registered with Google to another URL. No access to server or anything like that. Is there a way to do this with just messing with the DNS?
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain [duplicate]
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain
I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with ...
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How do SSL certificate authorities verify domains?
What is a reasonable and reputable SSL certificate signing authority -- and how do they verify the domain in the simplest case? Do they simply send an email to the Technical Contact for the domain ...
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Will the rest of my clients be affected if google blocks a site on the same server?
I am about to take on a client who is a mutual friend of someone I know. He has a legit business, but one of his competitors somehow complained to google and got his whole site blocked.
He's ...
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Domain name SEO: worth sacrificing shorter/cooler domain for keywords? trivrank.com vs triviarank.com
In terms of SEO, how beneficial might it be to go with triviarank.com for the extra "trivia" keyword? This is for a trivia website I am constructing that gives users ranks when they answer questions. ...
