DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Naked domain to “www” redirect in Windows Server 2008
I have a Windows server. I have several websites hosted on my server. Currently, I can only visit these websites if I include "www" (e.g., www.techtint.com).
I want the naked form of the URL to ...
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Domain resolving taking hours [on hold]
I'm running this site:
http://www.wa-sta.com/ which runs on this ip: 195.138.245.52
Issue is, that opening on wa-sta.com takes between 5-10 seconds or indefinity loading and accessing it via IP pops ...
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LaunchRock problem [closed]
I have build landing page with LaunchRock but I have problems to connect it to my own domain that I have purchased with Namecheap.
I have changed A address to pointo launchrokc and I have mad ...
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CNAME Redirect to Google Places Page?
I see a way to do this with Google Apps, Google Websites, etc, but the straight Google Places URL isn't accepted in a CNAME value (my current understanding is that it has to be a subdomain). Is there ...
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Pointing a domain to a specific URL
Is it possible to point a URL to a specific page in cPanel?
Say I have foobar.com and there's a page foobar.com/art. Now I also or artbar.com and I want to point it at foobar.com/art how would I do ...
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PageSpeed - Minimize DNS lookups: why not use IP address for resources
One of the recommendations from web performance optimization services is to minimize DNS look ups.
I fully understand why they recommend this but why not just point references to external files to ...
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Using Google apps / eNom domain change webhosts without breaking email?
I'm taking over a site for a client who initially purchased their domain name from Google Apps / eNom, they're using google apps mail but the site itself is hosted on earthlink.
I've built the new ...
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Alternatives to using 3rd party Dynamic DNS
I am looking to set up dynamic DNS in order to make accessing a home server easier. Is there any way I can get around using 3rd party site (like dyndns.org).
Is there a way to set up dynamic dns ...
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Moving domain currently on Google Apps to my own machines
I own a domain which currently uses Google Apps (it was free back then).
Due to recent events I have decided I want to move everything right where I can control the data, which basically means I have ...
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How would I completely remove a domain from webs?
I have registered a domain with 1&1.co.uk about 2 months ago. I changed the nameservers to the ones that webs told me to (ns1.webs.com, ns2.webs.com) so that I could publish my webs website to my ...
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How can I create (or do I even need to create) an alias of a DNS MX record?
I am in the process of moving my DNS records from Network Solutions to the Amazon Route 53 service. While I know and understand a little about the basic kinds of records, I am stumped on how to create ...
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How to forward emails to my custom domain to my Gmail account?
I bought a domain without webspace and want to forward emails to that domain to my Gmail account. But I don't receive any emails which are send there, not even a return-to-sender-email. I also tried ...
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Problems defining CNAME for tumblr custom domain through directadmin
I'm having problems trying to define a CNAME from blog.mydomain.com to domains.tumblr.
I'm using directadmin DNS Administration.
I've added a sub-domain named blog.mydomain.com and then in DNS ...
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Forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain
How can I forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain?
I.e.: api.website.com -> api.company.com
Where the first is just a CNAME pointer and the last is a real subdomain with a ...
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How to change the zone file records for .io domain registered at nic.io?
I just registered a .io domain at nic.io and I want to make changes to the zone file to integrate it with Google Apps. I couldn't find an interface to change CNAME / MX records.
Has anybody been able ...
