Where to buy a domain name

Hi
Who would be the best website to buy a domain name from to rename my .mac website. I am in the U.K and I want a site that is easy to understand and can move the domain name to my iweb website with ease. Basically a website that isnt complicated because I am not too computer savvy!
thanks
Lou

Are you asking how you can set things up so that somebody that goes to www.yourdomain.com gets to see your site created with iWeb? Do you currently publish to a .mac account? Then your web site will be somewhere like
http://web.mac.com/yourname
Login to your 1&1 account, and find the button that says "Domains". In the "Domains Overview" list should be an entry like
yourname.com External Domain webspace (/www)
That means the web site is currently pointing at a folder called "www" in your 1&1 account. Just change the destination so that it gets forwarded to
http://web.mac.com/yourname
using HTTP forward. That's it.

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Can i buy a domain name outright?

im now ready to launch my 1st website and i am wondering how much i should be spending on my domain name? where from and who to host with, uk based. any advice?

Domain Registrars:
godaddy.com (do not host with them !) but the price is good for registering domain names.
http://www.namecheap.com/
Hosting:
Look for a local host in the UK, though it doesn't matter where the site is hosted, as long as you can get support when you need it
Just remember, with hosting, often times, you get what you pay for!
A site for checking out reputations on hosting companies:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/
Personally, I use and have no problems with:
http://www.gowesthosting.com/ (moved a heap of sites to this company a little while ago and they were very helpful).
http://crystaltech.com/ (have since been taken over by another company, so may move the sites from here to the above company as well - as I get a lot more space allocation for a better price).
I've also heard good things about:
http://bluehost.com/

Can I buy my domain name now?

I am about to create a Muse site for a client in a month or two but he would like to have his business cards with his web address on it now. Is there any requirements with third arty hosting i should be aware of?
Also is it going to be a problem for me or my client to update the site often using a third party host? I am not a developer and do not know much about coding. Is it possible to buy adobe business catalyst sites that have the adress as .com or .nz rather than .business catalyst?
Thanks for your help.

Reading this article on pushing a site live and assigning a domain name should help you:
http://www.adobekb.com/launching_pt01.html

Where do I find "Domain Name Servers"?

I just created my website using iweb '08 and I purchased my personal domain name using godaddy.com. Once I was ready to to let the world see what I had created, I clicked publish and it took a few minutes and once the website was finished uploading I couldn't find it anywhere. I called godaddy and they informed me that I need to the "domain name servers" from Apple. I have no idea what this means and no one can seem to help me. Can anyone help me find where I can get DNS?

This page here explains how set up your domain: http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_Domains.html
This link here may also be useful: http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?articleid=679&topicid=
If have additional questions feel free to ask.
-Patrick

HT1277 where I can put domain name in exchange server setting?

I am trying to configure my exchange account for my company and it requires to put domain name as well with server name and userid. I dont see any place in configuration to put domain name, please let me know if some one tried this.

Initiately i have the same problem. I figured out, first i have to uncheck "use Autodiscover Service". Enter your company server into external server and change the user name to your nt username. Check on use autodiscover service and let it run. I managed to retrived all my email without enter domain.
You can go to the mail configuration by right click and select edit.

Buying a domain name that's taken

any strategies? register.com links to afternic.com for
purchase info but they charge like fifty bucks a year - do i need
to go with a company like that?

> any strategies?
is the domain name in use?
if yes- is there any contact info.
if no- first do a whois to see if the ownership info is
public.
if not- try the "wayback machine" for contact info if there
were ever any
pages published there.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
shouldn't consider a domain name brokerage service till
you've used up free
public info. Or explored different possible names.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

SPA9000: REALM/DOMAIN name where to enter this ?

Hi,
I'm trying to test sipline.nl they require me to enter a realm/domain name (sipline.nl) but i can't find it in the config of my SPA9000
Who knows where to enter this ? so i can register at sipline.nl

The forwarding process varies from registration company to registration company. Generally speaking, you log into their website and access your account controls. Somewhere in the controls/settings for your account is where you enter in the long .mac address of your website which you want your domain name to forward to.
Note that there are two types of domain forwarding. With "regular" Domain forwarding (often just called domain forwarding), someone types in exampledomain.com and they are forwarded to web.mac.com/username/iWeb/exampledomainsite; once there, they see the long .mac url.
With domain masking, someone types in exampledomain.com, they are forwarded to your site on .mac, but the url still reads exampledomain.com. The advantage is they never have to see the long (and some thing ugly) .mac address; the disadvantage is that they can't easily bookmark particular pages because the url does not change as they move from page to page of your site.
Be sure you know which type of forwarding you want before you buy a domain name. Some registration/hosting companies only provide one or the other. The names of the two services vary somewhat between registration companies.

How to publish custom web site with own domain name?

Hey out there. I wonder if anyone can give me any tips on how to publish a web site with my own domain name.
I have a web site I'm building and I want to purchase a domain name and then publish the site using that domain name.
I know how to buy a domain name. I have a .mac account so I'm hoping that .mac can host the site. What I don't quite understand how to do is get .mac to host the site using that domain name. I looked through Apple Support but couldn't find what I was looking for. Just wondering if anyone has been in this situation. Thanks in advance.
Dave
[email protected]

Dave ~ Welcome to the discussions. .Mac was re-branded as MobileMe last July. If you're not building your site with iWeb, it's considered to be a "custom" website. These Apple docs may help:
MobileMe: How to publish a custom website
iWeb ’08: Using your own domain name
...Use this search page to find such documents:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search
Note that you don't need to have iLife '08 to be able to direct your domain name to your custom website published to MobileMe. As someone wrote on another thread:
"My personal domain is linked to my MM but i don't even have ilife on my mac. When you go to the options in MM to link your personal domain to your MM it provides directions that will guide you with setting up your godaddy settings."
...Where "MM" is MobileMe here:
http://me.com/account
...+Personal Domain+ tab, and "godaddy" is wherever your domain name is registered.

Using my Personal Domain Name on a trial version of .Mac?

Okay, I have a trial version of .mac, and am very happy with it. I used Iweb to build a good website for my artwork, and I'm all set to publish. But I want to put my registered domain name to my new site, so when you type the simple domain name (ex: "www.site.com") my .mac site that I built on Iweb will show up.
I have a previously-built site hosted by a different company where my domain name used to point. After calling the company where I bought the domain name, they had me redirect the name so it points to .mac. It didn't work. When I type in my domain name (ex:"www.site.com"), the old site comes up.
I went onto the help section of Iweb, which says to log into .mac, and in the account info section, press a button that says something about personal domains. _THERE IS NO BUTTON THERE_!!! Is it becuase I only have the trial version of .mac? I intend to buy the full version, but I wanted to play with my free trial memebership first. If I have to, though, I'll just buy the full version so I can add my personal domain name to the .mac site.
Has anyone come across the answer for this? I'm inexperienced with hosting and domains and all that...the answers I've gotten from emails are like greek to me. Can anyone help?

Is it becuase I only have the trial version of .mac?
Yes.
You should still be able to point your personal name to your .Mac site via ordinary forwarding/masking, where you normally just type http://web.mac.com/username into a form at the place which holds your name.

Domain names with iWeb

I know there has been a lot of discussion on this topic, but I haven't seen anything that answers my more basic questions. I have a .Mac site and would like to give it a personal domain name. I am handy with my .Mac site but know nothing about web pages, domain names etc and how they function (thus the beauty of .Mac that does the work for me). Any help with the following questions would be greatly appreciated. Please keep responses somewhat simple so I can start to understand...
1- If I register a domain name and forward it to my .mac site, what exactly is happening. For example, if I get a name from xyz.com that offers me a domain name, web space, email etc, and I use this name for my .mac site, is anything actually hosted by the xyz.com site? Make sense? All I want is the name. I don't plan to use any of the other services so I want to buy the smallest package. If this package only offers 75 MB of storage, but my .Mac site has more than that on it currently, will this cause a problem? Or, am I just simply slapping on the name and continuing to use all the .Mac functions regardless of the domain name's restrictions. Hope I was clear...
2- Where should I get my domain name? GoDaddy, A Small Orange....?
I guess that is it for now. I really want to know if I will need to change the way I do things, manage storage etc if I get a personal domain name, or is it business as usuall with a new name?
Thanks in advance for your help. Nick

Hi Elmeroguero,
If you buy a domain name at GoDaddy say elmeroguero.com for 10$/yr you then will be able to access the site you publish on .mac by entering elmeroguero.com.
EVERYTHING ELSE is business as usual. You publish your website by hitting publish button in iWeb and so on just as you did until now. All your pages are stored on .Mac and so on. The only thing changing is how you can access your website from browser (nevertheless you will also still be able to access your website typing the web.mac.com/username/ address).
Regards,
Cédric
(Difference between WebForward, WebForward with cloaking and CNAME:
-WebForward: after you typed elmeroguero.com in the browser you get forwarded to web.mac.com/username/ and web.mac.com/username/ will display in the browser
-WebForward with Cloaking: after you typed elmeroguero.com in the browser elmeroguero.com will display in the browser and don't change while people browse through your website
-CNAME elmeroguero.com will display instead of web.mac.com/username/ and while browsing through your website it will look like elmeroguero.com/sitename/nameofpagepeoplelookatnow.html)

Domain name/"primary DNS" name/mail host name/mail server name/mx name

Hi,
I have registered my domain name (N.com) with an external dns server and created an MX record (mail.N.com) for it as well. My server sits behind a router and internet traffic is port(80)-forwarded to my server's fixed internal ip address (I can access my webpages from the internet just fine). When I initially setup the server I was asked to give it a "primary DNS name." I naturally assumed that N.com was supposed to be entered here, but that just caused all kinds of problems (though I still do not understand why). So I reinstalled and currently have server.N.com as the primary DNS name of the server (although it shows up in Server Admin and Workgroup Manager as server.local--why is that?)
I have had no luck getting any email from the internet with the default settings in mail services (domain name of N.com and host name of server.N.com). Having no luck with the defaults, I assumed that maybe I needed to change the host name to "mail.N.com" so that it matched the MX record. I also changed the user preferences in Workgroup Manager to receive mail from mail.N.com--but still no luck. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how come none of the Mail Service literature mentions anything about what a mail "host name" is supposed to be? Is it supposed to be the same as the "Mail Server" name that Workgroup Manager asks each user for? and is it the same as the MX record name?
I am just needing some help to connect all these variously named, but undefined, dots.
Also, how come I can access webmail from the internet using www.N.com/webmail but can't do it from any computers within my physical network (I have to use IPaddress/webmail or server.local/webmail)?
Also, should my user email addresses be [email protected] or [email protected] (which is the current default)?
Thanks in advance and good luck!
John

I had been told by a friend that ... regular email coming in from the internet would go through port 80
Unfortunately you were misinformed.
My MX record needs the extra subname (such as "mail") in front of the domain name, right?
Not at all. A MX record for 'N.com' is entirely valid (expected, in fact).
An MX record tells remote mail servers where to send mail for any domain/subdomain. If you think about it, let's say you worked for Apple and you wanted people to be able to send email to [email protected], well then you need an MX record for 'apple.com'.
You can see if you dig MX apple.com that they actually have 9 MX records, but the point still stands.
Now, you might also have MX records for subdomains so that you can have [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. Each of these subdomains would need a separate MX record.
So, in general, for any set of email addresses @[anything.]domain.com you have a MX record telling remote mail servers where to send that mail.
Of course the MX record name is mail.N.com, but I think you are implying that the in the Mail settings of Server Admin where it asks for domain name all I need to put there is the N.com, right?
What I mean is that you need to set the domain name to whatever domain name you expect to receive mail at.
If you want users to have email addresses in the form of [email protected], then you enter 'N.com'.
If you want users to have email addresses in the form of [email protected] then you enter 'mail.N.com'.
If you want both forms, enter one in the main domain and add the other(s) in the Advanced -> Hosting -> Local Host Aliases section.
Is there anything in the Mail settings that needs to have the full MX record name (mail.N.com)?
Yes. Either the 'domain name' or the 'Local Host Aliases' needs to contain the same thing as your MX record. That's because the MX record tells remote servers to send mail to this machine, but the machine won't accept the mail unless it is configured to do so.
What is the "host name" supposed to be?
This should be the name that remote servers see when this machine tries to send outgoing mail.
Ideally this should match the reverse DNS of your IP address, that way when it connects to a remote server it says "Hi, I'm $hostname" and the remote server can lookup the machine's IP address and see the same result. This will reduce the problem of remote servers thinking you're sending them spam.
If you only have a single IP address then this probably needs to be something like 'N.com'. If you don't have control over your reverse DNS then you're going to run into a problem.
Also in the user accounts (in Workgroup Manager) what should the "mail server name" be? Is it the host name or the domain name?
Off hand, I don't know.
Also, why are all the default user email addresses [email protected] (the name I gave the server at setup)? Why doesn't the user accounts create [email protected] as the default address?
Presumably because the mail server says it is 'server.N.com' and therefore any accounts on that machine would be [email protected]. Changing the domain name (as above) should fix that.

How to confiture virtual hosts with multiple domain names

hello,
I've read through some of the postings here on virtual hosts, but I thought I'd better solicit advice before I actually try some of the things I've read about.
In a nutshell, I've purchased multiple domain names that I'd like to alias to a new site (currently it is just a subfolder in the main site directory) on my OS 10.3.x server. There is only the one main site configured right now on the box, so I know I need to set up a second "virtual site" pointing to the files in this subfolder to make it function as its own site.
I've dabbled around with the sites settings in the GUI, but I'd probably be most comfortable setting all this up in the httpd.conf by hand if I could. But I'm weary of this because I know it might be better to use the GUI because of OS X Server's flavor of WebObjects and Apache (sigh).
So, I have two main questions:
1) How would I set up this second site using the GUI in server settings? Do I need to first move the subfolder out of the main folder before it can be designated its own site? Or can I just point to it in the GUI? Can I use one of my purchased domain names in the domain field?
2) Currently, I have URL Forwarding set with my multiple domain names, but I'm thinking there might be a better way to do this? For SEO I'd rather use some type of redirect rather than being penalized by search engines for having what looks to be multiple domains pointing to the same site.I'm thinking I should create virtual sites for each domain name I've purchased with a hard redirect back to the main site?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 10.3.9 Server
G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 10.3.9 Server

thank you for your reply.
> You can create each site as a new Site in Server
Admin. When you do this you can choose any
directory on disk as the document root for each
site.This means you can move the sites' folders out of
/Library/WebServer/Documents if you like - you could
create /Library/WebServer/site1,
/Library/WebServer/site2, etc. (or even be outside of
/Library/WebServer if you want).
so, are you are saying that I could designate one site to be
/Library/WebServer/Documents/site1
and another to be
/Library/WebServer/Documents/site1/directory1
even though directory1 is contained within site1's structure? I'm not advancing this as a good idea, necessarily. I'm just wondering if Apache would complain.
> Each site should have the domain name set as per your
registered domains. Apache will need this to
determine the correct site to serve for each
request.
Well, after some additional research I'm thinking I'm missing a critical piece of the puzzle. That being access to the DNS host server that manages the context of my server. I have purchased domain names through an outside registrar that point to my site and I can create virtual hosts on my server, but I don't have the ability to add the new virtual host names into the DNS server that manages my box. If that makes sense. Or maybe I'm missing something?
>
I'm not sure why you're using URL forwarding at all.
Without that piece of information it's impossible to
tell you whether you should continue using them or
not - in general there's no need to use URL
forwarding if you have multiple Virtual Hosts setup,
but it sounds like you have multiple hostnames
pointing to the same content, so your needs may be
different.
I'm using forwarding for the reason I list above. I didn't purchase hosting with the registrar where I purchased my domain names, so they are parked on the registrar's name server with URL forwarding to my server. The DNS server that manages my box resides in a different location and I don't have the ability to add DNS entries pointing to virtual hosts that I want to set up. Am I stuck?
G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 10.3.9 Server

AD Migration from NT 4.0 using New Domain Name & Unity UM

The customer currently has Unity 3.1(5) UM with Exchange 5.5 in NT 4.0 domain. They will be migrating to AD 2000 during phase 1 of the project, which will be followed by Unity upgrade to 4.0(4) a few weeks afterwards.
During the phase 1, Exchange 2003 will be introduced, but the mailboxes will remain in Exchange 5.5 until phase 2.
Here is the migration path proposed by the customer for the phase 1.
1. Current DNS will be isolated to a W2K server with the new domain defined in the DNS. All servers will point to this DNS server as their primary.
2. A BDC will be setup and then removed from our network.
3. Our PDC will be upgraded to Windows 2000 server. AD will be setup with a new domain of XXX.PRV
4. Service packs will be applied to the server.
5. The AD connector will be installed for Exchange 5.5
6. An additional W2K server will be brought online as a DC and additional global catalog.
I do realize that domain name change is not supported for Unity, but would this have any impact on Unity? Basically, the PDC that will be upgraded to W2K DC will retain old domain name (XXX_NT) as the NetBios name whereas the new DNS domain name will be XXX.PRV.
Since Unity does not need to talk to AD or Exchange 2003 at all until the phase 2, Im thinking this would be okay, but wanted to get some expert opinions on it. Also, the customer has tested some legacy servers in the lab, and they were able to authenticate against the XXX_NT domain name in the new XXX.PRV AD environment.
Phase 2 will consist of the following tasks.
1. Run DB Walker.
2. Back up using DiRT.
3. Extend AD schema.
4. Upgrade Unity to 4.0(4).
5. Disconnect Unity from Exchange 5.5.
6. Upgrade Exchange System Manager on Unity.
7. Re-establish Exchange partner relationship using Exchange 2003.
8. Run DB Walker.
9. Move Exchange 5.5 mailboxes to Exchange 2003.
Thank you bunch!
Han

Your project (from oh so long ago) looks very similar to what I am proposing to do now. I currently run Cisco Unity 4.0.4 SR1 with Exchange 5.5 (Unified Messaging), on an NT4 network. I have recently upgraded my network to Windows 2003 with Active Directory. I am building a new Exchange 2003 server in the new domain but not upgrading Unity 4.0.4--at least, not yet. I am looking to change the Partner Exchange server to point at the new Exchange server. I see no docs that cover such a scenario--only lateral moves (5.5 to 5.5, 2003 to 2003). As long as the ADC is in place, do you think I even have to change the Partner server when my new Exchange server comes online (initially)? How did your project turn out? Did you have to change the process you outlined above?
Thanks for any info!
John

How do you get a new domain name?

I know it must be very simple to do but I just can't understand this process.
Do you have to buy a domain name from places like godaddy.com first?
Or can you created it on MobileMe for free?
Does it take 48hours to take effect?
Thanks

All domain names must be purchased from an domain name provider. GoDaddy.com is just one of many providers.
Once you purchase your name and publish the site you can set up MobileMe to use that domain name in one of two ways:
1 - using the CNAME feature of MobileMe. These documents describes how it is done:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=MobileMe/Account/en/acct17114.html
http://help.godaddy.com/article/4100
2 - using the regular domain name forwarding like this example thru GoDaddy.com (this assumes you purchase the name thru GoDaddy) as seen in this screenshot:
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IWeb site with domain name

I have created a website using iWeb and have uploaded it to my .Mac account. Now I would like to create another one but use my own domain name. Can I do that?

Yes. Create a new site and then use domain forwarding from where you bought the domain name to forward that domain to the url of your second site.
I use iWebSites to manage multiple sites much like iPhoto Library Manager and multiple libraries. Here's how I do it:
One way to handle multiple sites is to use iWebSites. It lets me create multiple sites and multiple domain files. If you have multiple sites in one domain file here's the workflow I used to split them into individual site files with iWebSites.
It allows me to edit several sites and then publish only those I want to update. I can keep the changed sites unpublished as I see fit.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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