Questions tagged [domains]
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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Redirect traffic from AWS domain to Wix hosted domain
I have a domain hosted on AWS (www.example.com) and it works fine. I have now a temporary need to route traffic from this domain to a temporary Wix hosted domain (www.example.net). I've tried making a ...
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Website Loads But Receiving Domain Name Does Not Resolve Error
Recently I had my Google Ads telling me that my ad is disabled because the destination is not resolving. The ad seems to actually be running, and my website is loading, however as I was digging into ...
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renewing an expired domain through a different company?
My current provider let my domain expire. I paid for the renewal a month in advance, they let it expire, and when I reached out, they ghosted me for about a week and a half. Only resurfaced when I ...
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Best way to gift domain? [closed]
I want to buy a couple of domains as a gift, for a business acquaintance. I'm happy to pay the cost forever, though I'm sure the acquaintance will want to own the domains. I use Godaddy for mine. Was ...
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migrate domain-name and hosting from google-sites to wordpress
I don't have website deveoplemnt experience.
For keeping my personal blogs, I took the easy plug-and-play step and I have created a website using sites.google.com. I bought the domain name and hosting ...
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Translated text on multiple national level domains
I am a bit confused about multilingual websites and SEO and would be grateful if somebody could explain me how they are ranked at the moment.
For example, my company's website domain is "...
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Domain forwarding using 123-reg doesn't support HTTPS but is indexed in Google with it
I have set up a forwarder on my domain to go to one of my social media profiles.
This works fine if I visit my domain directly e.g. www.loremipsum.co.uk, but if I search my name in Google and find my ...
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Connecting domain and email hosting from one.com to Netlify
I am a beginner of webdevelopment and have successfully deployed my website at Netlify. I bought a domain with email hosting at one.com and now I want to redirect it to Netlify DNS to be provided with ...
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Why are 'number only' urls so popular/ expensive on Godaddy Auctions? What are they even useful for?
The idea for domain 'names' is to provide a more memorable/ identifiable alternative to IP address.
However, I noticed that several domains like ####.com have high estimated values on Godaddy Auctions....
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Search whois for .ai tld domains to avoid front running
Recently found a nice .ai domain name available for my project on NameCheap, but found that it had been registered when I went to purchase it the next day, with the owner asking me to "place a ...
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Squarespace site not resolving - movement from Craft/Digital Ocean to interim Squarespace site [closed]
We're switching from Craft/Digital Ocean over to Squarespace (long story, temporary fix). The urls show connected from the Squarespace side. The site did resolve initially. It seems that over time ...
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Is it best to move a poorly-performing website to a new domain name upon a major update?
My rationale is since my site was poorly received, it will be better to get a clean state. There are many instances of bad user experience with the current site, related to slow loading and ...
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What actions can I take against a registrar who falsely disabled my domain for abuse?
I've seen another post about this.
Our domain was suspended by registry due to "potential abuse"
Last week two domains I manage were disabled due to a "breach in the registration ...
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Create different version of a website in WIX based on different location
I am new to wix. I have a website. It's connected to a domain example.com. Now I want to create diffrent version of this website and connect it to a subdirectory example.com/usa. Can I do that in wix? ...
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Siteliner reports problems with www and trailing slash with my blogger site
I have a problem with my blogger site with a new domain. When checking on the site siteliner this error appears, but I don't know how to fix it.
This is the error:
Slash vs. non-Slash: Different ...
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Can I register a 3 letter .ly domain?
When searching for a .ly domain under 4 characters long, most registrars respond with:
All registrars report "Strings shorter than four symbols long are to
be registered directly under .ly ONLY ...
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Prevent Google Chrome for suggesting my site as a lookalike URL of some other legitimate site
Google Chrome is now warning users when the visit domains that look like a typo for some other domain. They call this feature "Navigation suggestions for lookalike URLs"
However, sometimes ...
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Google Workspaces Picking Up an MX record Not Set in Domain DNS
I recently acquired a domain on GoDaddy auctions on behalf of a client for their new business's website. I am building the site and hosting it.
I am in the process of configuring Google Workspaces and ...
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How to point an enom domain purchased from Google to a Google site?
I pay for a domain every year (e.g., example.com) that is registered by enom through Google on my behalf. I have made a website using Google Sites which you can be found at a URL that's similar to: ...
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Cpanel email addresses failure connected to Google Domains
I have a domain name with google domains and I'm using cpanel. When I create an email address in cpanel and send an email to that address, it's saying it doesn't exist. Somehow it's connected to ...
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Is a single page website satisfies ICANN's UDRP 4 - Legitimate Interests in a domain?
ICANN's UDRP 4 states that
You are required to submit to a mandatory
administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a
"complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in ...
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How can I remove the indexing to my site of a secondary domain no longer owned by me whose only function was to redirect to the main one from Google?
I had a series of domains that redirected to a main domain (let's call it A) where the website is located. One of them is no longer owned by me, and a few hours after being removed from the previous ...
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Getting huge subscriptions at website with same user name with minor difference
My Website has got 339 subscribers since hosting has been changed to Hostinger that is almost 15 days. I observe the list of subscribers and found that there were around 50 subscribers who have user ...
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Redirected exact-match domain names for SEO?
Google usually favors domain name exact matches.
For example, if your domain is mailonline.com, when you search "mail online", it would recognize the similarity between the two and likely ...
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How to get a domain unblocked from Akamai's Nominum?
I recently purchased a domain and set up hosting at AWS for the root and a subdomain for the static asset files, set to CloudFront.
After a brief public test, I received many issues from customers ...
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How to redirect old domain URLs without the old website?
My client deleted their website and do not have a backup of it on the old domain. I need to redirect their old domain URLs in Google Search to the new domain. I have access to their old domain and ...
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Site migration from .co.uk to previously owned .com to help with USA/global market reach?
We own our domain .co.uk and have recently purchased the .com version from a third-party private seller.
My research shows that our .co.uk has a better domain authority score and low spam score when ...
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Will redirecting links from an old domain to a new one strengthen the new domain when they are in the same industry?
I sold my company some 18 months ago. The new owner has renamed the company and is using a new domain for the websites. My new website is only a year old.
If I obtain this old domain from the new ...
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How to connect my custom domain to github.io
What should I do to see my github.io page content when I enter mydomain.com into browser address bar?
I have a custom .com domain and a Jekyll generated webpage at username.github.io/repositoryname. ...
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All my redirects are giving me a nice 301. Except the "http://www", for some reason it results in 302. I think I tried all the combinations already
I wanted to ask you for your help. I found this answer that is recommended on the internet - Forward naked domain with URL path for my Google Domain but it seems that it is already outdated.
I tried a ...
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Move a site from a subdomain of another domain when we won't be able to obtain a redirect
Good morning,
I'd appreciate if you guys could help me with a situation I have at the moment with the company I work in.
We're an online newspaper focused in Technology articles, so have our own ...
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Will creating a 301 redirect from old domain to new domain affect Gmail?
I've rebranded a business so I want to redirect the existing site to a new domain name - presumably by setting up a 301 redirect(?) - so anyone who types in xxx1.com (old domain) will be redirected to ...
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Premium domain cost after deletion
There is a premium domain that is right now in redemptionPeriod and will get deleted from the registrar in two weeks (counted around 80 days from expire date). The domain cost $200 as a premium domain....
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Is there a way to redirect a domain with a slug to a new domain with a new slug on Namecheap?
So I'm no expert with domain directs, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but here we go:
What we want to do is direct our site's blog posts from our old site (with old root domain and slug) to ...
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If an old redirecting domain expires will it still redirect or affect SEO?
What happens if an old domain redirecting to a new domain expires? Will it still redirect? What is the effect on search engine ranking?
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Does a domain "registered on" date carry-over to a new owner?
Question: Does the registered on date carry over to new owners of a domain name?
Scenario:
I was recently contacted by a very credible non-profit that had lost their domain name because they failed ...
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Is it possible to keep the existence of a domain secret?
If I bought a domain like a9j47fn83jd8j49.tld, and only a friend and I ever visit it, who would know about it? It sounds like for most TLDs, there is some reporting that has to happen after you buy a ...
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NotServedByPagesError when trying to setup a domain name in GitHub
On GitHub, this is what I entered and what I got:
And this is what my DNS settings look like:
Please help I don't understant anything I'm just trying to setup a custom domain name for my github repo....
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How do I submit an offer to buy an expired domain?
I am looking at an expired .com domain, that expired 19th dec. 2022. When I read this it says:
If the previous Registrant fails to renew their domain after 30 days,
they forfeit ownership of the ...
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Moving .co.uk to .com for international ecommerce
I am asking for advice please on the best course of action for Shopify site that would like to expand into international markets.
Shopify has the new 'Markets' functionality, where you can easily spin ...
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Does noindex for subpages affect the whole domain?
I want to share the unreviewed version of my future website with a few people on an URL like this:
example.com/hidden-unreviewed-version
I would apply noindex on it and all its subpages to hide them ...
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How do I register a domain name, but keep who I am secret?
Over the years I've seen a number of owner proxy services, but have never used one, and have no idea if they work; or for that matter if there's any legal risk to using them, such as making easier to ...
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ANAME record not accepted
I created a application on fleek.co and want to connect my GoDaddy domain to my application. The fleek UI tells me to add an ANAME record with an alias as DNS entry. The GoDaddy UI tells me this is ...
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How can I disable users from accessing Apache server with an IP address in the URL instead of my domains?
I have a self-hosted and self-managed web server using Apache 2.4 on Debian. I use many domains on this server and have configured them using vhosts.
I want my users to use the domains I configured to ...
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I changed the domain name, will my articles pass as duplicates?
I decided to change my domain name x.com to y.com and moved all the files from x.com to y.com and deleted x.com.
All the articles on x.com are now available on y.com. But Google doesn't like duplicate ...
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Can I purchase subdomains separately from a different registrar?
I don't think it's possible but just wanted to know. For example I have a domain and the main website hosted by company A and would like to have a blog managed and hosted with company B. So I need a ...
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Easiest and most affordable webhost to transfer and host the domain of an existing .php website to another existing domain name? [duplicate]
I've had a friend of mine create a .php website for me that he hosts on a personal raspberry pi server.
It looks fantastic and works great. However, I already have a website and domain that was hosted ...
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How do I check that a domain is available without triggering a grabber?
A few days ago, I checked whether a domain was available by tying the name in the web browser. Also host returned not found 3(NXDOMAIN)
When I tried again today, some domain grabber had snatched it.
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Can I buy a cheap domain for a year and then move it to a registrar with cheaper renewal?
I'm currently looking into buying a domain name for a personal project.
I see a lot of sites offer 1st year discounts, where your first year for certain .com domains (or other certain domains) will ...
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How to reroute traffic from subdomain to Elastic Beanstalk via 3rd-party reigstrar and DNS manager
I'm quite incompetent when it comes to DNS and how traffic is routed, so this may be why I'm struggling to understand how to do what it is I want to do.
I've created a domain with a 3rd-party ...
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