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A domain name is a string of characters that identifies a realm of authority within a Domain Naming System (DNS).

A domain name is a string of characters that identifies a realm of authority within a Domain Naming System (DNS). They serve as human-friendly pointers to IP addresses and other resources that host various services like HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, IMAP, SIP, etc. Domain names can be (and are) used on private networks, but they are an integral component of the modern Internet.

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Trying to set up a .ka domain name

I'm trying to set up a domain with the .ka suffix for a URL shortener for a project I'm working on. Similar to drbl.in for example. I've checked online and this suffix doesn't seemed to registered to any country yet or appear of any domain name…
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WHOIS command not returning useful information?

Nowadays, whenever you use WHOIS command doesn't return any usefully information. I usually have to go to Godaddy, Dnsstuff or other services to get the data. I understand the reason is mostly due to spamming. I was just wondering how other services…
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Changing domain name from localhost to custom name in Visual Studio

I am new to MVC and I just created one MVC4 test project in VS 2010, it runs perectly but the url is http://localhost:60826/ I wanted to change it to http://my.test.site or at least http://my.test.site:60826/ I thought I can achieve that by simply…
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More than one top level domain?

In a normal URL, you have a protocol, subdomains (optional), domain name, top level domain and subdirectories. For example: http://www.google.com/path. Here www is subdomain, google is domain name and com is TLD; path is subdirectory here. Parsing…
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InvalidChangeBatch 400: "" is not a valid hosted zone id. is not a valid encrypted identifier when attempting to add A record to existing domain

I am attempting to point my domain to my S3 bucket When I attempt to create an A record on my domain I get the following error in Route53 console: Error occurred Alias Target contains an invalid value. (InvalidChangeBatch 400: "" is not a valid…
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How do I stop my domain name maliciously redirecting?

I have set up my website running on Apache2 on an Ubuntu server. I have two domain names from mydomain.com. I linked them up and they work, usually. But, often, when I try to load the domain name , I get redirected to another advertisement site.…
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Custom URL/Domain (CNAME alias?)

I am creating an application in a LAMP stack and I want to provide the user with the ability to use their own domain instead of a subdomain of my site. eg. Instead of: http://some_user.mysite.com They will use: http://store.some_user.com/ I know…
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How do you check if a domain name exists?

Not only easy ones like .com or .net, but also, .co.uk, .fr, .gov.rw ... ? Should I really make a huge mapping "tld to relevant whois server", or is there an easier way ?
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Org or com domain for open source project site?

Let's say I have an open project called Some Project. Would you recommend hosting the project site under someproject.com or someproject.org, and why? I realize that .org suits an open source project better, but I'm afraid that on longer term, I may…
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HTML 301 Redirect in Google App Engine

I have 4 URLs that I would like to redirect to my main page. They are all just common misspellings and I want to have my bases covered so that users can access the site even if they have a letter off. How would I go about doing this with Google…
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returning 'A' DNS record in dnspython

I am using dnspython to get the 'A' record and return the result (IP address for a given domain). I have this simple testing python script: import dns.resolver def resolveDNS(): domain = "google.com" resolver = dns.resolver.Resolver(); …
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Session is specific to what? Why not treat ip and domain name session as same?

I want to know session is specific with what? This is not restrict to one language. Bellow is just use php as an example. I use php session, it works well when I use the my website domain name. To test the website in my local vmvare ubuntu on the…
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Can I accept post request only from a domain name?

I'm implementing a payment method on my application, and the bank site send back a post request with information about the payment, like the status, the payment id ... But to be sure the request is not from someone trying to do bad stuff, can I…
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How to point a TK domain to a heroku app?

I'm a noob. I've set up a tk domain here http://dot.tk/ I'd like to point to myapp.herokuapp.com. How can I do it? I cannot figure out what entry to add, ARecod, Cname, MX record? What do I put in the HOST and IP fields? I keep getting "invalid…
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How to get domain alias using System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain class

We have a domain with full name, e.g. long-domainname.com; this domain name is replaced with alias short. this alias can be retrieved using netapi32.dll, like this: [DllImport("Netapi32.dll")] static extern int NetApiBufferFree(IntPtr Buffer); //…
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