DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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How to make Thunderbird recognize our Google Apps domain? [closed]
When setting up a new email address in Thunderbird, it makes a guess for the correct server settings (IMAP/SMTP) so users don't need to type everything in them selves.
For most of the domains I ...
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blah.com works, www.blah.com doesn't
I've found many a common question but unfortunately none of them really directly answered my inquiry, below is a copy paste of the info I am provided by xname.org I've replaced my .com with blah.com, ...
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Domain only forwards with external hosting
I have a domain with Namecheap and hosting with 1and1. Forwarding is no problem - domain.com goes to the right page. The problem arises when I navigate to another page on the website, when it reverts ...
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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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Domain name issues [1&1]
I'm trying to make my domain name point to my web-server.
I own a domain through 1&1, and I have a linux computer I have set up to run as my web-server. I'm a student at college, and my college ...
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Link building campaign for externally hosted sub-domain
I am launching a link building campaign for a sub-domain. I plan to ensure that the sub-domain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and ...
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issue with Domain, DNS and Hosting
I bought domains from GoDaddy.
I bought hosting from NFS.
I changed my DNS from GD to NFS.
Do I require to host DNS on NFS for website to work properly, or can I host DNS back on GD?
I am paying ...
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website (any) access fails and when successful, screen returned is odd i various ways [closed]
I have an intermittent failure in trying to access the internet and the following scenarios can occur in any access attempt
website loads as normal
website loads, but the stylesheet doesn't
I get a ...
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different mail boxes for domain alias on domains.live.com using plesk
I have 1 Primary domain and 5 Aliases.
Primary Domain is:
PrimaryDomain.com
Aliases are:
alias1.com
alias2.com
alias3.com
alias4.com
alias5.com
I like to create following separate Inboxes on ...
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I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com/directory using DNS
I own 2 domain names "domain1.com" and "domain2.com", I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com/directory using DNS (preferably). Can anyone assist (I am an amateur at domain ...
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web url forwarding to different port and subdirectory
I would like to forward anyone going to subdomain.old-domain.com:8014 to this new address subdomain.new-domain.com:8000/subdirectory (note a different domain AND different port PLUS a subdirectory)
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Point 1&1 hosted domain to my account which is also on 1&1 [closed]
My site is hosted on 1&1 and a friend who am I building a site with purchased a domain with 1&1 also. I created a folder and subdomain which is pointing to that folder. I cannot figure out how ...
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Selling a Domain Name. What scams should I be on the lookout for? [closed]
I'm selling a domain name. The transaction is being conducted through escrow.com. Payment will post in a few days at which time we'll transfer the domain name.
I'm no domain name expert. Is there ...
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Tumblr Custom Domain not redirecting properly
I decided to host my blog at Tumblr, using their custom domain setup (http://blog.smokingfishgames.com/ instead of http://smokingfishgames.tumblr.com). However, it's been 72 hours and I'm still ...
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How to serve a DNS record for a hosted domain and Minecraft server?
I'm using DreamHost to host the domain craftnetwork.co. The Minecraft Server needs to be hosted on subdomain.craftnetwork.co. Can I setup DNS records to direct users to a website when in a browser and ...
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Pointing a sub domain to another server using directi control panel while domain.com is not hosted
Do we of course need a host for domain.com? Unfortunately currently the host for domain.com is down, so sub.domain.com cannot be redirected to where it should.
Is there a way to at least activate the ...
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Set up stand-alone IIS server with wildcard SLL cert?
We have a server for IIS 7.5 set up in our DMZ zone for clients to connect to through VPN only, so the client connects through VPN and then uses a web service "locally".
We would like to apply our ...
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google apps domain verification issues
I apologize for asking this here instead of Google's forums, but I find that they tend to yield no results at all, ever.
I have a domain verified on Google Apps through HTML file upload, which I am ...
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CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?
I have a web site www.somewhere.com and I want the alias fr.somewhere.com.
I set up a CNAME record for www.somewhere.com alias fr.somewhere.com. When a user types in http://fr.somewhere.com in their ...
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Wildcard dns record point to multiple servers
I would like to give my users their own subdomain like jack.xxx.com, james.xxx.com, and is using wildcard dns record to do that.
But now I would like to separate users into multiple servers, like ...
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Why do domain name registrations cost $10-$15 a year? [closed]
What is the cost breakdown of where the money actually goes? What does it pay for?
.com, .net and .org will be 30 years old next year; I imagine that the marginal cost of registering one domain is ...
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Process of DNS resolution using nslookup starting from root nameservers
I understand broadly the theory of how a DNS resolver goes through the domain hierarchy querying nameservers to resolve a domain name from the root namespace downwards however I would like to try ...
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How to begin editing sites? [closed]
I'm new to creating web-sites and I have just registered a domain name here: from Europe Registry and started trial version of hosting from: ispserver.com.
I shall connect domain and hosting somehow ...
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creating unlimited sub domains programmatically through api
Note
Consider each subdomain as unique application instance
For information about application architecture visit
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Is all data about a domain name provided to a TLD registry by the registrar visible on Whois?
I am trying to understand more about how the domain registration process works between the registry and the registrar. My question is when a domain name is registered by a registrar such as GoDaddy, ...
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website won't work without www. on 123-reg [duplicate]
I've got a website that works with my custom domain name with the www. but when I type it in without the www. it doesn't show up, and I've had customers wondering if my website is down because of ...
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Keep mail going to old server while hosting on a new server [duplicate]
I'm trying to figure out how to keep mail going to an old server/MX record (which is the same as the domain for the website), after I change the A record for the domain.
Here's what I have now (with ...
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Redirecting www.foo.example.com to foo.example.com
I have a Cpanel web hosting account and have created a subdomain which redirects to an IP address of a different server (Windows IIS) by creating an A record. I don't have control of the Windows ...
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Create a public website on home computer [duplicate]
I posted this Stack Overflow question last week about setting up a Private IP, not knowing a lot about it. I'm not used to this home server stuff. ...
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no-ip.com how to hide static IP address
I'm using no-ip.com in "Port 80 redirect" mode - in fact my provider doesn't mind port 80 being used it's just I don't want to reveal my static IP. When I type the alias (from either local or remote ...
