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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Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name
I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address.
Is this ...
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Domain renewal/transfer gandi.net
I'm in kind of a difficult situation here: I have a domain (a .at domain) and transfered it to gandi.net a couple of months ago. Now it's time to renew my domain but when I tried to do the renewal it ...
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parked domain on plesk have error 500
I parked the raf-sales.net domain on raf.ir but i have this error:
Server Error in '/' Application. :|
I hate Plesk and have not any idea to fix this problem! :|
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Access a PLESK website before propagation?
My web host uses Plesk and I want to know if there is anyway to access and view a website (with PHP and other processes being functional) without propagation of the domain name?
I have found ...
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Best technical blog site for existing domain
I would like to have a blog site, tough I have created my own by writing the code.. Huhhh... hosting cost is killing me.
I have my domain name with me and I just wanted to get the blog where I can ...
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Are there any risk if your DNS's SOA or admin contact are using the same domain as the DNS
For example, Google.com [1]
The SOA email is : dns-admin.google.com
The contact is:
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin
Google Inc.
dns-admin.google.com
As you can see, both are using ...
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Can merging 4 sites into 1 help?
The company I work for has 4 websites. There is a related theme to them (all IT services or web design / development). All have unique content.
I am hearing more and more that these need to be ...
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How to Add Two Domains ON 1 IP using webmin
I am a new user of webmin and I have two domains site1.com and site2.net.
I have one dedicated IP for the server and I have set site1.com to use following name servers ns1.site1.com and ns2.site1.com ...
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CNAME | A-Record | MX Record | Problems
I have a domain (e.g. domain1.com) and I only want to CNAME re-point the A-Record to domain2.com
CNAME re-pointing will affect both A-Record and MX-Record.
I do not want to affect the MX record, but ...
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Domain Masking / Cloaking?
I don't know whats the correct term for it, but what I'd like is to forward users visiting domain1.com to domain2.com without changing the URL in their address bar at all, IE. show contents from ...
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What happened to the test@domain.tld syntax?
I can remember that some years ago several providers advertised the possibility to use the @ syntax instead of general subdomains with their DNS service. Today, I can't find any documentation or hints ...
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Domain name transfer: do you lose years left at current registrar?
I have a domain registered at GoDaddy. it was registered for five years (two years ago). whois records shows it will expire some time in 2015.
Now I want to transfer to Gandi. The problem is Gandi ...
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How DDNS can link to 3G simcard dynamic IP
I have CCTV that work via 3G (use simcard). I can access it directly using dynamic IP but as it keep changes, I won't be able to access it. My question if I set DDNS on CCTV, how can DDNS detect the ...
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Which TLD would be suited to a personal site?
I'm planning what is essentially a "business card" website for myself, and have been looking at domains. My primary site (a .com) is for my blog and portfolio and the like, but I want a separate site ...
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How to redirect my brand new domain to Dlinkddns.com
Today I bought a domain from GoDaddy for my personal usage. I'm trying to forward requests from the domain to a DlinkDDNS account with no success so far.
https://account.dlinkddns.com:port works ...
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Which domain name structure, if any, is better for SEO? [closed]
I'm purchasing a domain for a new blog, and wonder which structure is better for domain name. I have these two options (domain changed to ensure it doesn't get swiped away from me!):
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Host website on UNIX, but email on Windows?
Client has web hosting and email hosting from one web provider.
Their email hosting is integrated with their systems for their office — an Exchange server (located on their premises).
Both are on a ...
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Redirect *.example.com to example.com
I have some valid subdomains in my httpd.conf file. Now how do I redirect anything that's not a valid subdomain to the main website? What I mean is, if I have a valid subdomain hello.example.com, it ...
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Avoid penalties for duplicate (multilanguage) shared hosting
My concern is about SEO. Now let me explain the scenario.
I am making a 3 languages website. The development is alright, but I was targeting local customers with one domain, and international ...
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Google webmaster tools: changing address from domain name to subdomain
So we originally have our blog on our main domain (for example, it would be on www.example.com). Now we have moved it to http://blog.example.com. My question is how do we change the address from ...
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Redirect subdomain to local PC
I have a home web server which is constantly running. Is it possible to create a subdomain which would redirect traffic to another local PC?
For example, I have one Server and one notebook (with web ...
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How do I go about assigning my computer to my domain name?
I've just registered a domain name, just to test how uploading a website works (I've made heaps, but never uploaded one), and I am unsure of where to go next. I wish to use my own personal computer ...
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Choosing which domain to secure
We've got a website that is served on both www.example.com and just example.com - we've never done any sort of forcing users from one domain to the other, so if they land on example.com then that's ...
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PageRank sharing between domains?
I own three domains, say.. example.com, example.in, example.co.in
I have bought the .in and .co.in TLDs (Top Level Domains) only to protect the brand.
But I have this question:
If I make the other ...
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Curious about a cached old domain
I am a bit curious about my new domain. I had a domain before, let's say http://example.com/. Before expiration of that domain, I bought a new one with the name http://another-domain.com/. I uploaded ...
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Website migration is not working for all computers
We got 2 servers on same network, Server-A and Server-B.
On Server-A (widows server 2003), we have IIS 5.2 and our website was hosted on it few month ago (about 7-8 months).
We bought a new server, ...
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How can I browse to my new hosting site using browser?
Hi I have a new hosting site and my domain is still redirecting to my old domain.I have now my shared IP address and ftp details.
How can I browse my new hosting site using
http://ipaddress/foldername ...
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Why does my site only work with a www in the URL?
I'm a bit confused as the following points:
There is a simple text website, with no javascript, that works only with the prefix. http://www.mysite.corporation.com works but ...
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If I use my custom domain with my Blogger account will this help in SEO of that blog?
Also I want to know that if my custom domain is nothing but one of the keywords and my blog is also about that keyword, so will this help in improving google ranks of my blog after I change from ...
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Strategy for hosting 700+ domains names, each with a static HTML site
I have a portfolio of more than 700 domain names, and ideally I'd like to put up a single-page HTML/CSS/JavaScript webpage for each domain. Is there a system/strategy/workflow that will allow me to:
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What happens if I don't pay for my .com domain in time?
What happens if I have a .com domain, and don't pay for the next year in time?
Is the domain locked for some time?
Can anyone else register it the day after?
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Google Analytics - www version and non-www version
We have been using Google Analytics for a site http://example.com (non-www version). In a recent update, we have moved the site to http://www.example.com (www-version) with a 301 redirect from the ...
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Is it good to buy multiple domains for competitive reasons?
I am attempting to convince the higher ups at my company that spending $55 to renew one domain for a year is bad when they end up having 3-4 domains names for one website.
They're reasoning for ...
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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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Can I host a website on a different address to the webmail?
I have what is to me an unusual situation.
I have a client for whom I have built a website which I will be hosting, they have been using their domain name for their email addresses for a long period ...
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Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder
keyword.abc.com
or
abc.com/keyword/
Which of this two is good to manage?
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Keywords in domain name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this?
Let's assume we have a generic website "MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com". We discover that a lot of ...
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AJAX Keyword Suggestion Tool
Are there any JavaScript includes to provide an AJAX based keyword suggestion tool based on some existing text?
For instance Yahoo offer a Keyword Extraction Tool but due to cross-domain JavaScript ...
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URLs - Hyphens or keywords?
Let's say I have an online database. The domain names somethingdatabase.* are taken.
seomoz says that
Hyphens detract from credibility and can act as a spam indicator
and also says that
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Using a hyphen in the domain name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ?
I am looking to buy a domain where the obvious choices have already been purchased.
Example: domaintest.com or ...
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Yahoo Bizmail import contacts list into email clients [closed]
My company abc.com has signed up with Yahoo Business Email.
Everyone in my company is assigned an email address user1@abc.com, user2@abc.com ...etc.
I have a few questions:
It is required that ...
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Changing domain name - what are the practical steps involved [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?
I launched a website a couple of years ago, bright eyed and bushy tailed, with dreams of conquering the world. ...
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Where to buy a domain for my local server [closed]
I have made a website and hosted in my local computer using a static ip
Where can i buy a domain name such as www.something.com such that it can redirect to my static IP.
So that if i m using a page ...
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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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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 do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?
Given http://www.ocfaustralia.org/ and site 2 http://griffith.ocfaustralia.org/, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1?
That is, if I were to remove site 1 would ...
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Implications on automatically “open” third party domain aliasing to one of my subdomains
I have a domain, let's call it www.mydomain.com where I have a portal with an active community of users.
In this portal users cooperate in a wiki way to build some "kind of software".
These software ...
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In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain
I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps:
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Should your Nameservers be under a Different Domain
I notice that, with most of the web hosts I use, they provide nameserver addresses under their main domain (or a related domain).
For example Mediatemple provides name servers which are:
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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 ...
