| 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.
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| 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 to 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) and (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. |
| Record
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 our 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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