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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New company name - switch main domain or alias from a SEO perspective
Have a customer who's company have changed name from CompanyX to BusinessY. Their domain is companyx.com, and have set their new domain, businessy.com, as a cname to companyx.com.
Would it be better, ...
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How can I pre-register a domain or register a domain from ICANN directly?
I want to buy a domain with suffix .zone and .moe
I find some site say can pre-register .I put them below:
https://www.instra.com/en/domain-names/brand/zone-domain-registration/zone
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Concerns regarding registering a domain name with a home address
If I purchase a domain, I'm usually required to enter an address. Usually, the address can be accessed publicly by any sort of WHOIS lookup. I'm uncomfortable publishing my real home address; what do ...
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The effect in Google of the word “the” in a URL?
Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word "the" in a URL, as in www.thewebdesigner.com, is a bad idea or not is very ...
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301 Redirect From a Country Specific Domain
I originally started using a .do domain extension for my site, but later realized that this country specific domain would prevent us from appearing in search results for places outside of the ...
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How to transfer domain registered through Blogger to a new registrar?
I'm preparing a client for migrating his Blogger blog to a self-hosting WordPress site. The client is currently running his Blogger blog using a custom domain name which he registered through ...
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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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De-share third level .name domain
Sometime ago I registered a third level .name domain of the type john.doe.name (this is just an example-my domain is not actually john.doe.name). I just realised that I could have registered the ...
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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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How can I use a custom domain with Google App Engine?
I have purchased a domain from GoDaddy and I want to host it using Google App Engine. But when I added it to the app's custom domain, it asked me to sign up for "Google Apps for Business" (it is a ...
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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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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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How to access a website hosted on a shared server (and IP), when its domain is not working?
I'm trying to find out alternative ways to access a website (not mine), which has temporarily lost its domain name due to it expiring. The site owner didn't realise the domain would expire and it has ...
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Google cache has been updated but not the real title is come in search results, How come [closed]
Google cache has been updated but the real title of my website is not showing like...my real title is---- The Pranayam flats | by Puri Constructison in Greater faridabad--- but the title is showing -- ...
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Automated hosting
I'm going to make a web service, where people can register domain names and host their sites, which they order from us. Also I need proper billing. For this purposes I'm going to buy Hetzner root ...
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Google Webmaster Tools change domain from third level
I had a blog running on Tumblr on foobar.tumblr.com and at some point I thought I'd just get foobar.com and set that up as a custom domain.
Yet, as far as I can tell, there is no way I can ...
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Providing fake info during domain registration - does it matter?
As you are all most likely aware already all domain registrars ask for your personal information.
Such personal information includes:
Forename and surname
Address information
Email address
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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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Free/ cheap way to receive and send emails from @mydomain account [closed]
I want to be able to receive email from a few xxx@mydomain email accounts and also send email from those addresses.
Now, I'm looking for a very, very cheap, or free alternative.
To receive my email, ...
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Combine redirect to naked domain and point existing content to /blog
I think the .htaccess setup for this ought to be fairly straightforward, but I'm having a hard time with it for some reason. I've just completed the migration of a WordPress single site installation ...
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The name of my startup returns many search engine results - will using it as a domain name cause problems with SEO?
I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has the .com, .net and .org domain names available for it, and is also available on most social networks that we care about.
The bad ...
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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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If my domains expire and my hosting is still active, how can I get my previous site to display on a new domain?
Ok, so here's what happened. Last year I registered two domains(very important!) with an email address I no longer have access to(and I don't know the security questions). Same with the namecheap ...
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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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If I have a 500 Internal Server Error should I contact my web hosting or domain registrar?
Who are you supposed to contact when you see a HTTP 500 error?
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What happens to my website when domain name expires
I am new to this.
Someone just created my website for me for free, and all I did was to pay for the domain and hosting. My website is new with just around 4 posts.
I cannot complete it because I am ...
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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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Will transferring a domain name to a new registrar cause downtime?
Will transferring a domain name to a new host cause downtime at all on the domain?
It's the highest traffic time of the year for us but we really want to keep things moving and need to migrate hosts ...
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Does character length of domain affect seo rankings?
My domain : CreditCardPaymentGateways dot in even after 6 months is not ranking well.
Could it be due to length of it?
Also I've blocked backlinks to some directories( without nofollow) using ...
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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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Why subdomains of Blogspot/Wordpress like sites are treated as different domains or sites?
As I know, maps.google.com or mail.google.com all comes under the same domain and its all are subdomain. Entire web treats these subdomain as the part of main domain and they have same Alexa rank, ...
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Multiple top level domains - should I redirect/rewrite or leave them?
I have a website which has many top level domains e.g.
mywebsite.com
mywebsite.org
mywebsite.co.uk
mywebsite.org.uk
The website is advertised as mywebsite.org.uk. But I expect lots of people will ...
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Looking for a Domain Manager [closed]
I am looking for the best Domain "management" company. Have about 500+ domains at the moment and acquire more on a daily basis. Would prefer to have a full-service company take over the daily ...
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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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Confused about domain names
I am confused about the difference between http://www.example.com and http://example.com, is that true "www" is actually the subdomain of domain example.com? Do people usually redirect from ...
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Registering a domain without an email address
I am soon going to be getting a domain and setting up email addresses for me and a few of my partners in business. I personally do not want to be tied to my current Outlook.com email address and 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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Perment redirect domain to www subdomain without web.config
I've just set up a site via 1and1 and have run into an issue, I want to accomplish the simple task of redirecting the root domain to the www sub domain however due to complications I cant seam to ...
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Benefits of sharing one IP, or prefarably assigning a new IP?
I think I am lost but not found yet, please as regards this very topic; my issue was that I bought a new VPS using WHM optimised and it's just one domain meaning one IP.
All I want to know is the ...
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Using one IP for Nameserver like NS1 and NS2
Please I like to know why I can't use my one IP on my nameserver like:
ns1.mydomain.com = 67.111.78.12
ns2.mydomain.com = (but the IP could be assigned here)
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How to I register a domain name that has been registered? [duplicate]
I am writing to ask about a domain name I wish to own. I have contacted the domain owner (by performing a WhoIS search) by email and have not received a reply. I have tried contacting him for over a ...
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One domain and multiple website in folders
I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. example.com then going to manage my websites in folders. Look below for example:
www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
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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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Any ideas or concepts for monetising strong domain names [closed]
We currently have a number of domain names that are really strong. Most are 15 years old or more and are single keyword domains. E.g. builders.co.uk or electricians.co.uk.
We are looking to monetize ...
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Domain, subdomain and path forwarding
I have four domains:
domain.in
domain.com
domain.org
domain.co.in
I want to make domain.in as my main domain. I want to forward all my other domains to it. I want to set up forwarding such that:
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What's the difference between cheap and expensive domain registrars?
A few years ago I registered a domain with Network Solutions. In recent years I've been using cheaper services such as namecheap, powerpipe etc.
Every time that I need to renew some of the older ...
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Namserver does not work without proxy [closed]
I recently purchased this domain name. I have changed the DNS and its been aroudn 24 hours(Namecheap, the domain registration company says it takes a maxium of 24 hours for the name servers to ...
