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| SLD |
The SLD is
the second level domain. For example, in "www.myname.com",
"myname" is the SLD. If you are creating a new name, fill-in
the field provided under "SLD" with only the SLD part
of your name. Do not include the ".". The name can have
any character ("a" to "z"), any number ("0"
to "9 "), the minus ("-") sign, and the underscore
("_") in the name. Spaces are not allowed. |
| TLD |
The TLD is the top level domain. For example, in "www.myname.com",
"com" is the TLD. If you are creating a new name, fill-in
the field provided under "TLD" with the TLD part of your
name. Do not include the ".". The name can have any character
("a" to "z"), any number ("0" to "9
"), the minus ("-") sign, and the underscore ("_")
in the name. Spaces are not allowed. |
| Address |
This table
associates a name with an address. You can associate any name with
any Address. The address is either a numerical designator assigned
to a computer on the network, or the host and domain of a machine,
or a URL. None can be greater than 58 characters total (if you need
more space, for a URL for example, please let us know)
If you want the record to point an IP address, you must select either
a record type of "Address (A)" or a record type of "Mail
(MX)". You must also use the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. The first
and fourth xxx are numbers between 1 and 254. The second and third
xxx are numbers between 0 and 254. An example of an IP address is:
"189.23.125.3". If you are creating a new name, we have
already filled-in the "www" host address with a default
IP address that will display a web page that you can use to make
sure the name is being properly delegated by our servers. This default
web page address is "209.19.56.15". You are not required
to use this IP address, and in fact, you will probably want to use
your own as soon as you can. FYI, some other IP address are: (Netscape
205.188.247.5), (Microsoft 207.46.130.150) (Yahoo 204.71.200.72).
If you use a host and domain combination, you must select the record
type of "Alias (CNAME)". You must also use the format
"www.mydomain.com.".
If you want the record to be forwarded to a URL you must select
"URL" from the drop-down menu and enter a valid URL into the "Address"
box.
If you do not enter a valid name, URL or IP, then that host record
(name & address pair) will not be added to the DNS or our database.
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type |
We allow five types of address records to be added to our DNS servers.
They are as follows:
- A (Address)
Using this type of record allows you to associate a host with
an IP address. The IP address that you use does not have to
be on your network. For example, you could have the host record
for www point to 207.46.130.14 (the address for the Microsoft
web site).
- MXE
(Mail Easy) Using a mail record allows you to specify the
address of your mail server. When you use a mail record, you
must use an IP address in the address field. (Experts: Creating
a mail record actually creates both the MX and the A record
in DNS. Also, when using multiple mail servers, a preference
value of 10 is used on all entries).
- MX
(Mail) Can be either a host name under this domain name
(for example, "mail3") or the name of a mail server (for example,
"mail.yahoo.com."). NOTE: When using a mail server name, it
should end with a period ".". (If you forget the period and
we recognize the TLD, we will automatically insert one.).
- CNAME
(Alias) An alias record type is used to associate a host
name with another host. The host that you wish to point to does
not have to be on your network. For example, you could have
the host record for www point to www.microsoft.com. You can
also simply use an "@" to represent your domain. Important:When
you use a domain in the address field you must add a trailing
period ("."). Unless you do so the name server will
add your domain to the end of the domain given.
- URL
Redirect URL Redirect is the standard method for URL Forwarding.
When the client types in your domain name they are redirected
to the web server that your page is hosted on. The only drawback
of this method is as the person is looking around the site the
URL that is displayed by the browser is the one of the actual
web page, not your domain name. If this is a problem you can
use the URL Frame method.
- URL
Frame URL Frame is similar to URL Redirect except that instead
of redirecting the client to your web page, the web page is
displayed in a frame from our web server. With this method the
client's browser will display your domain name (for example:
www.mydomain.com) while they are using your site and not the
actual URL to your page (for example: home.infospace.com/chris33").
Note: If you use this method of forwarding, you will want to
put the 'target="_top"' attribute into any links you have that
leave your page.
If we receive
requests for a record type that is not listed we will consider adding
it. We would, however, prefer to keep things as simple as we can
in order to eliminate possible confusion. |
| E-Mail
Forwarding |
The E-Mail
Forwarding section allows you to create e-mail addresses with your
domain name. For example, if your domain name was "mydomain.com",
you could create the e-mail address "info@mydomain.com". Note: if
you are using e-mail forwarding do not add your own MX record, it
will add one for you.
- User
This is the first part of the e-mail address you want to create.
For the address "info@mydomain.com", you would put "info" into
the blank in the user column.
- Domain
This displays the second part of the e-mail address, this is
your domain name. The "User" and "Domain" columns make up the
full e-mail address.
- Forward
To This is the e-mail address that you want all the mail
coming to the account you just created to be forwarded to. This
needs to be a complete, valid e-mail address. It could be an
e-mail account you already have from an ISP or a free e-mail
account, etc.
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| Add |
Use
this button to add the new record to your account. Address without
a corresponding name will not be added. |
| Modify |
Use this button
to modify the record as specified in the form fields. |
| Save
Changes |
Click
here to enter your new changes into systems. |
| Cancel |
Clicking this
button will not make any change in your account and will take you
back to your main account page. |
| Reset |
Clicking
this button will reset the form to its original state when the page
was first displayed. |
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