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How to point google apps subdomain to external sites?
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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DNS poisoned nslookup returns wrong ip address
I recently had a 'redirect virus' while I was logged in as administrator. Every time I would query something in a search engine, I was redirected to domaindiscount24.com. After a virus cleanup ...
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Does it make a difference if I specify IP or domain name with a local server?
I have a computer in my house set up at, say <domname>.dyndns.org, it also has a local IP of 192.168.1.101. Is it consistently faster to use <domname>.dyndns.org or the IP for SSH (when ...
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Internal/External Moodle - DNS
Network diagram:
I have a moodle (a VLE) setup that I want to be internally and externally accessible. The green route on the diagram below is the route I would like the traffic to take when the ...
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Do i have to create folders for new domain names?
I already have a hosting server with an existing name-server.
I just purchased 3 domain names from a different vendor and supplied them with the correct name servers.
Do I have to create the ...
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Unexpected DNS entries returned
I'm having been getting a weird DNS response recently. If I ping any unresolved DNS (without tld, I.e. abc instead of abc.com), it will return the IP 72.167.34.97. If I would do it in the browser, it ...
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How to point a domain name from Name.com to my home web server?
I have a fully working home web server on Fedora 15, here it is:
http://24.109.247.176/
I want to have my domain which is on Name.com to be used for my home web server, how can I accomplish this?
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How To Resolve IP Addresses To Domain Names?
I know it is possible to resolve IP addresses to host names but can IPs be resolved to domain names?
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What is a Dedicated IP? [closed]
I am trying to purchase a domain name that I want and the person says that it's expensive because it comes with a IP address. I have never heard of this. What exactly is a dedicated IP? What are ...
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Can we use port numbers at Domain registrar in domain name
I was just thinking it would be good to have port numbers with domain name at domain registrars.
For example if I have my site running at port 8000 I mean http://ipaddress:800 then in domain name if ...
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Namebargain website change; login address domain not correct
I've had service for domain names for years with Namebargain.com. (they are owned by register.com). However the site has changed and when I go to login I notice that 'namebargain.com' is no longer in ...
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Windows 7 Network cannot resolve domain name but can access via IP
I have computers in a network, and I see the computer names in the "network". Double clicking them says that Windows cannot connect. However, if I ping the computer names I get a connection, and ...
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IP address loads faster than domain name
I just signed up for a cloud server in Singapore. I myself am in Indonesia. I've got the domain name setup and everything. When I ping my IP address versus ping my domain name, the results are about ...
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Can't set “example.com” as a CNAME record?
I'm currently running a server at home, but I have a dynamic IP. So I subscribed to a dynamic dns service(dlinkddns.com). I made all the correct settings in my own network, and the ip updates ...
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What are Dashworlds.com domain names
I have just seen Dash Worlds Domain Names and I was wondering how do they work. They claim that you can register a free domain like example-com (not example.com) and then you download a plugin that ...
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How do I show my domain in the address bar instead of the actual location?
I just bought a domain, "example.com" for illustration.
I have hosting on "hosting.be/myname". When someone visits example.com, the addressbar changes automatically to hosting.be/myname.
Is there ...
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Purpose of LAN Domain?
What is the purpose of creating a domain name for your LAN? I'm using DD-WRT on my router and assigned local.moofz.com as the LAN domain. I setup Apache HTTP servers on two of the computers on my LAN ...
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Sending email from domain name address
hey, I've just bought a domain name and would like to send emails from blah@mydomain.com. I can use an alias from my hotmail/gmail account, but the recipient sometimes sees it as
"my@hotmail.com on ...
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How can I check if a domain uses DNSSEC?
DNSSEC has been deployed on some topdomains now. But how could I see if a site/domain is using DNSSEC? Is it shown in the browser? or is there any windows or linux command to see it? or a tool for it?
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Dynamic DNS (DynDNS, No-IP, etc.) security issues
Are there any security issues inherent in setting up a mapping between a domain name and dynamic IP (i.e. what dynamic DNS services like DynDNS or No-IP do)? Or are the only security risks related to ...
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Domain issues with WWW [closed]
I have this domain that I recently brought:
But if I access to:
It shows the website where I brought the domain from, why is it doing this?
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Can I let a domain name expire and register it with someone else? [closed]
I have a domainname that is set to expire in a month.
I want to change registrars, without paying for a transfer fee. Can I just let it expire and register it again...or will the current registrar ...
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How to stop firefox from mangling domain names?
When I type in http://example/ firefox rewites the url to http://www.example.com/. Is there any way to fix this behavior without recompiling firefox? I suspect something in about:config will help, ...
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Domain name search (trying to find a site whose URL I forgot) [closed]
The title pretty much says it all. What I have is a word, say 'frak', and a country code top-level domain and I'd like to search all the domains in that ccTLD in hopes of finding the site I'm looking ...
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Create domain name
How can I create a domain name for local purposes?
for example I have a local web application enviroment in http://localhost:8000 but I would like to have it in http://dev instead.
I am using ...
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How can I find domain name ownership history [closed]
I want to find the ownership history for a domain name I am interested in purchasing. I want to know who has owned it previously. Is there an authoritative database with ownership history? If so, ...
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Private whois: How to know the owner?
Is there a way to get information about the owner of a domain with private whois ?
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Is there any way to get a .it domain without being a citizen of Italy?
Does anyone know how to get one? I've been looking up different things for a while and haven't found anything...
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Not having address/phone number in WHOIS database?
When I sign up for an account with a domain name registrar like 10dollar.ca, it asks for my address and phone number. Will these show up when someone does a WHOIS lookup on my domain name?
I noticed ...
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What web browsers support non-latin hostnames 'out of the box'?
With ICANN approving the first full Internationalised Domain Names for non-latin scripts such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, etc do all browsers support these character sets out of the box?
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http in web browser address bar
If we type a domain name in web browser address bar, How it will be add default ?
Ex. If i type linkedin.com in web browser address bar, How it will be add www and http:// -----
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Newly registered domain name still doesn't show up after 72 hours [closed]
Seven days ago I ordered a domain name with a local (Belgian) domain name agent. I have already webspace at a shared host in the US, so I filled in their nameservers on the form. I immediately payed ...
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Do WHOIS listings get spammed?
I'm thinking of registering a domain name. Is there any danger putting my real info on there? Do they get spammed by phone spam, snail mail spam, or email spam?
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How to choose a sensible local domain name for a home network?
Is there any convention on possible naming for local domain names (like .local), apart from not using any possible or existing top-level domain?
Wikipedia says that
.local conflicts with zeroconf
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Best mailing list system [closed]
What is the best mailing list system?
Better if I can specify the domain with mine.
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Domain Name Expiration details at GoDaddy [closed]
I'm trying to buy a domain that someone apparently parked thru GoDaddy. This is what the whois info (from GoDaddy's own registry site) currently reads:
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: ...
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Any advantages/disadvantages to leaving a domain name with one registrar and hosting it on another? [closed]
Hey all. I currently have a domain that was registered through a provider (GoDaddy), but is not being used. I am signing up with a different hosting provider, and was unsure if I should transfer the ...
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Is there any reverse whois service? [closed]
Can I get a list of all registered domains for a specific person/company?
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Confusion in knowing the actual meaning of domain
I'm confused in the actual meaning of domain. Is the domain mean any web page address like "superuser.com" or its actual meaning is the name of network which provides internet connection.
Thank you.
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.Info Domain Name [closed]
I want to take a domain on my name. But .Com is already taken. .Info doamin is still available, and its very cheap also.
I am just wondering whether I can take a .info domain or these domain are only ...
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Any place where I can register two lettered domain names? [closed]
I am looking for something like ma.tt , is.gd etc. Is there some site that allows this. My attempts on GoDaddy are always yielding an "Invalid Domain name".
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What is 1e100.net and why do I have TCP ports open to it?
I see my PC has TCP connections open to 1e100.net. Looking at the content this seems to be a Chinese site and I immediately feared the worst re viruses/malware. Then I checked the whois record and ...
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Any way to search for new domain names privately? [closed]
Is there any way to look up the availability of a domain name without risking it being reserved or registered by someone else who is snooping domain name look ups?
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Registering domain names with non-ASCII characters on them [closed]
I've just tried to register a domain name with a non-ascii character on it, much like http://☃.net/, at GoDaddy and it claimed it wasn't a valid domain name (I did perform the Punycode encoding before ...
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What do I need to know before buying a domain from an individual seller?
What steps do I need to take in order to ensure a successful transaction and protect myself from getting scammed?
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Will IE, Firefox, and Chrome be unicode domain compatible
Since there will soon be Hebrew domain names, I'm wondering if the major browsers already have support for this built in, or whether we'll have to wait for a future release to visit our favorite ...
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Whats the purpose of the WWW subdomain?
(At least I think it's a subdomain)
What's the point of having www. ? Isn't it just useless extra text? I mean, since everyone's used to it, www.google.com looks more well-balanced than google.com, ...
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Difference between host name and domain name
What's the difference between Hostname and Domain name? especially in regards to NIC
Could someone please elaborate with examples as this concept is a little confusing
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Website URL hiding/hiding file
Some websites, no matter what page you're on, always just show their domain name in the address bar and nothing else. And many show the folders, e.g. http://superuser.com/questions/ask, but don't show ...
