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I'm considering buying a domain [closed]
I am not asking for shopping recommendations, however! I was planning on getting a .com domain, but unfortuately the domain that I wanted is not available in a .com. However, it is available in a ...
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Buying a domain name after its expire date [migrated]
I want to register a new domain name but it is already taken. When I visit that domain name it shows some ads by a hosting company. They're not using that domain name for any purpose.
whois domain ...
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Domain registrar with domain seach API - any one know of a good one? [closed]
I want to bulk search available domains. Is there a good API or feed that anyone knows of?
Thanks!
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BIND redirect host without zone
How can I redirect some hosts with my bind server, Like a hots file ( /etc/hosts ).
If I declare a master zone of a external domain, I can't resolve request for subdomain...
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How do I buy a domain e.g. www.eg.com? [closed]
How do I buy a domain e.g. www.eg.com?
I want to buy it now so that when I need it belongs to me. I tried through Google and it said its not available but when you go to the website it doesn't have ...
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How can I temporarily override a domain name resolution without using the hosts file?
I have 2 versions of the same website located on different IPs -- one is production, and one is staging.
The production server: is managed completely by Site5. DNS is done so that foo.com resolves to ...
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Discover routing table to serve wild carded domain
I have a computer which I want to use as an access server to any system in the amazon.com domain.
Is it possible to learn the ip ranges which serve the amazon.com domain, so that I can construct a ...
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Change the IP address to a domain name
is there a way to change our website address into a domain name. E.g - I am creating a intranet and just copying the server IP and port everywhere to open the web page. It looks odd to copy pasting ...
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How do I set up a domain-like hostname on IRC?
I own a domain name, and a virtual private server. On that server I've installed ZNC as a bouncer for my IRC connection, and when connected through it the hostname is just a random hash of letters ...
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What is the correct way to go about buying a premium domain - Use an escrow service etc? [closed]
I'm looking at buying a premium domain name for my business. It's going to cost a significant amount of money and I want to be careful. The website offering the domain seems legit, but what is the ...
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Can I force Firefox to check for TLDs?
When using firefox, I regularly use the url bar as a search bar for my own convenience. Often I am searching for a download of a specifically named file, so I type the filename into the url bar and ...
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What is the difference and relation between Host Name and Canonical Name?
What is Canonical Name in relation to Host Name, Domain Name? Are they all pointing to the same IP?
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With Windows 7 how to access a network with an other domain name?
I want to access my company's internal network from my home (on a PC running WIndows 7).
I received configuration details to use with OpenVPN and connected successfully (according to OpenVPN log).
I ...
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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:// -----
ex : ...
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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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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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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 ...
