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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How to backorder a .io domain name [closed]
There is a .io domain name I want to buy when it becomes available in 12 months time.
What is the best tool to buy this automatically?
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Buying a domain in other country: larger response times?
I bought a domain in a very well know provider of domains in USA (Godaddy).
Now I want to use that domain for a site (local bussines) hosted in a server in Spain, and I'm wondering if I will get ...
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Set up development site on another server/host
I'm developing a site for a client. They've got a site now that's hosted at hosting.com. I'm going to move them to my VM hosting solution at edge web but I want to run some tests and have the client ...
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Setting up VPS: How to configure name servers
So I got a VPS set up (LAMP) and have transfered a couple of sites over. Now I want to point my domain names from the old host to the new VPS host, which does not have any name servers yet.
On my ...
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Create A record from the terminal
I have contracted a linux VPS and a domain (www.myproject.com). After that, in the same site from my user area, I have registered a pair of DNS (ns1.myproject.com and ns2.myproject.com) associating ...
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After changing DNS a domain shows differently on different browser?
I have changed the nameserver's of one of my domains but I found a problem that within Firefox these changes have not updated as expected, however this problem does not occur in other browsers such as ...
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Use a custom domain and point to Tumblr blog
My domain mydomain.com is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting.
My active nameservers at GoDaddy already point to my authoritative ...
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Subdomain 000Webhost [closed]
I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please ...
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Best choice of domain name? (SEO)
This question is specifically about domain name choice.
My client wants to maximize his site SEO, and he has two domain names, one of which he has for two years and is in the second page of Google ...
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Removing “www.” from domain name and SEO
We are doing a big redesign work on our website, and at least 50% of the website folders will be moved to new places with different names (i.e. many URL will be changed). Sure, Google will need some ...
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Does domain suffix affect SEO? [duplicate]
my first question here! I have a question regarding URL suffixes. Say I have a company, let's call it example-it. If I then purchase the domain www.example.it, thus incorporating the company name into ...
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Register a .ca domain from the US — proxy service
we ara a US-based business and interested in registering a .ca domain. I understand the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants - CIRA (www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf). ...
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Setting up DNS web server from scratch [closed]
I am a novice in setting up webserver. Where should I get a step by step instruction for setting up the DNS for my new web server.
Server: Windows 2008 Server R2
I have a Static IP.
Two domains need ...
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Can I buy a domain from one company and use it at another web host?
I've been out of the loop of this kind of stuff for a while but can someone please explain to me how buying a domain name and then getting it hosted works. Let's say if for example I bought a domain ...
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Page for Page Redirect in Google App Engine
I have recently changed domain name for a webapp I run on Google App Engine and I am wondering if there is a simple way to do a page for page redirect from my old website to the new domain. ...
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Advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?
Is there much of an advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?
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DNS: forward part of a managed domain to one host, but sub domain services to another (Google Apps)
I was going to post this as a comment against DNS: Forward domain to another host, but I don't seem able to do that.
I'm in a similar situation. I have a DNS registered/managed by enom, except with ...
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URL rewrite and domain frame
I have registered the domain www.posti.sh at nic.sh. The website is on the server www.myskoob.com/postish. Unfortunately, nic.sh does not support frames, i.e. that the domain stays posti.sh as it ...
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Using mixed A-Type and CNAME
A (IPv4 Adresszeiger)
doc.domain.de. IN A 301 to domain.atlassian.net
jira.domain.de. IN A 23.23.xx.xx
domain.de. IN A 301 to www.domain.de
work.domain.de. IN A ...
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Changing domain name vs URL redirect to improve URL building
I have a domain named companyname.com with PR3 and would like to improve the SEO by adding my main keyword in the domain name. I'm thinking about:
Buying the domain main-keyword-companyname.com and ...
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How to point Google Apps subdomain to external websites?
I have registered for a domain in Google Apps. It is automatically registered with GoDaddy.
I was wondering how can I make a subdomain point to my blog:
blog.mydomain.com => myname.blogspot.com
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Domain migration and duplicate content/index issue
I have a website.net which I want to 301 redirect to website.com and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new .com site.
Problem is that .com is currently set as Website Alias of ...
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Is it possible to reference images outside the domain root?
I have a website with a file structure a bit like this....
/webroot/folder1/main - php, css etc files in here
/webroot/folder1/data/images - images in here
I.e. ...
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What Can I do to Contact a Domain Owner?
A few months ago, I found a perfect .com domain name for a website I'm working on. Bad news: it was taken. Good news: It was set to expire on January 12, 2012. It's not a premium name or anything ...
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Domain Name protection
I have purchased a domain name and I don't have plan to launch my website in the next few months. But one thing I am worrying about is that if in the mean time someone else uses my domain name for ...
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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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How can I keep my privacy while owning multiple domain names?
I want to own, create and run few domains. I do not want 'whois' to have my name, home address and home phone available to anyone who looks me up.
I've already bought a mailbox that I can use for my ...
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Things to consider while picking domain name?
We want to buy a domain name for our company. But all of the domain name we've discussed has already taken by some one else.
Is it good to use trailing character to existing domain name so we have ...
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Where can I safetly search domain whois without worrying about the search engine parking on the domain immediately after the search?
There are a lot of companies that provide domain whois but I've heard of a lot of people who had bad experiences where the domain was bought soon after the whois search and the price was increased ...
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Is it a bad idea to use a domain hack for my personal website name?
I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the .com extension for my intended name is already taken. The name I want ends in ...
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301 redirects, site files
Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files?
I have a site currently at a .ca domain.
Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine ...
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Set nameserver in WHM with VPS that has no domain name?
I have a new VPS I want to use to manage sites on. I need to set up nameservers so that I can point the domain names to the new servers. I know nameservers usually look like ns1.example.com where ...
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How Google value .in/.info domains currently?
As .info domain price increased, how much Google value .info domain now? Also .in domain is now cost less then .info (for first year).
Is Google going to less value .in domain now? I have couple of ...
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Why does modx-based site start using different domains for some content?
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I have a modx site on a VPS with multiple domain and subdomain names. The modx site should use what I call the 'primary' domain name's 'primary' subdomain, ie www.intendedname.tld . The ...
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Google is not indexing the main domain
We have a main domain called www.riya.travel. If a user visits riya.travel from India it will redirect to the subdomain in.riya.travel . If a user visits riya.travel from another country, it will ...
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Change domain name for existing site, what is the easiest and cheapest way?
Suppose I have an existing site and I want to change the domain name without changing hosting.
I could set up a 301 redirect from the new site to the old site, but that doesn't actually change the ...
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Finding the expiration date of a domain?
Is there a way to find the expiration date of a ".id.au" domain?
I can't seem to find any information on any .id.au domain I search on.
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My Herokuapp is inaccessible from custom domain name
I have a Heroku app that is located at myapp.herokuapp.com. I have mapped a domain name to this app, using the A properties. I followed the instructions on Heroku's website to the letter, and it ...
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Transfer websites and domains to new server
We have currently around 40 websites and 80+ domains/sub-domains in a shared 1&1 hosting package, and we just acquired a managed dedicated server with 1&1 as well.
Now it's time to start ...
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ICANN nTLD applications acceptance [closed]
I've been paying attention to the new list of new TLDs being applied for, for a good while now.
And after thinking through the whole thing, it looks like an absolute trainwreck that will just ruin ...
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Registering my domain with a different service provider
Almost before one year I registered my domain with Godaddy for one year , and it expired 2 weeks ago, but it still seems Godaddy has the domain, and I can't register with another service provider.
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Google Analytics Filters not removing traffic from other domain
We have a frustrating problem where someone copied our site code including our Google Analytics code. So we are getting stats logged from their site which is very frustrating.
I have setup 4 Filters, ...
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Migrate add-on domain olddomain.com to newdomain.com
I have 2 domains that are registered at GoDaddy :
domaina.com (not hosted, only domain name is registered to GD)
domainb.com (hosted at a different webhost, domain name registered to GD)
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Google results show .info domain instead of .com
I am on shared hosting currently and i registered this account with a .info domain as the main domain.... say MyDomain.info . However, the site runs from MyDomain.com .
This is a cpanel based ...
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Extraction of whois data for country level domains( .us/.uk etc)
I'm using Domaintools.com whois api to get the whois info about domains. But they don't have data for country level domains like .us/.au etc.
Is there any place I get the whois info using some api ...
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What is the best way to handle special characters for google searches?
For example, originally my name is Denny Müller, but I have used Denny Mueller for many years. This is common practice in Germany and it has the same meaning but with a different way of writing it.
I ...
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how do I avoid spam domains to point to my site or IP hosting tomcat application
I can across a issue where I saw some xyz.com is pointing to mydomain.com.
I am not using Apache, nor IIS but Tomcat 7 directly.
How to I avoid such other spam domains to point to mydomain.com?
I ...
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I own a domain name. Can people view my personal registered info?
Is my information protected?
Or can someone tell where I live by my domain name?
Why do hosting services offer a protected information service for extra money?
How can I view that information?
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How to determine, who to contact for transferring my Domain
My client's domain, www.daccusa.org, is hosted at inmotionhosting.com. They tell me though, that the domain itself, is not.
I've spoken with two different customer supports at inmotionhosting.com and ...
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How do I map a customer's domain to a page in my website?
I'm considering starting a website that allows customers to map a domain they own and control, to their page or subdomain in my site. Do I need to have an IP address for each customer domain? Is this ...
