Questions tagged [domain-registration]
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Are NS records for a .com domain stored by the registrar or the .com registry?
Let's say I own example.com, that I bought by ExampleRegistrar.
Let's say that, by default, this registrar uses their own nameservers ns1.exampleregistrar.com, ns2.exampleregistrar.com.
Thus, when a client wants to browse to www.example.com, it…

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Former employee registered corporate domain to themselves
Not sure if serverfault is the right place for this question but I'm at my wits end.
I work for Company A. A former employee registered our corporate domain (a.com) to their personal email at name@theirLastName.com.
They have since left the company…

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Associate static IP address to a user friendly name
I imagine this must be a basic question for any system administrator, but I am failing to find a simple step-by-step guide.
I am managing a web server with a static IP address in the standard form 137.xxx.xxx.xx and I would like to associate it to a…

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DNS propagation taking over two months
Two months ago I registered bunch of expired domains and set new nameservers to them just like I've done before. Never had any issues.
For some reason the DNS propagation never finished with these domains. When I use any DNS propagation checker,…

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How to register a domain that has expired
There's a domain that I would like to register, but everywhere is saying it is taken. When I do a who.is search for the domain it says that it expired Jan 01 2018... how do i go about getting it registered?

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Self Domain Registration
This is a question that I have been asking myself for a while. Unfortunately I have not been able to find any results on Google, or any other search engine for that matter.
My research into this question lead me to these following answers:
DNS and…

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DOMAIN registration
I was planning to register a site domain like "site.io.us", but the problem is that famous registrant doesn't allows more then 1 "." char in their search inputs.
So how or where can i check or register domains like this?
I mean, del.icio.us was…

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Registering a Domain Name automatically via a web service or API
Right now we have the need to register a new domain name every day or so. As fun as going through godaddy's registration process is (or any domain registrar for that matter), we would like to automate the process. Is there a registrar with some…

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Understanding domain registration and dns lookup
I want to understand the process of how your domain gets queried from dns servers after purchasing a domain. I have not yet tried hosting and have no plans atm but I am eager to learn.
Here is what I have deduced so far (some are still speculations…

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webhosting php script
I have purchased a cPanel/WHM web hosting reseller account and I want to set up a site for people to set up a hosting accounts. I also would like to have a domain name registration system on the site, so people can register the domain name they…

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icann and new gTLD domains
Does anyone knows when will be these new domains extensions available?
I would like to register now a TLD , but when it will be available for my web site?
Is here any approximative date?
Also is there any list of ALREADY available tld?

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