I have a website with a name I don't really like. How do I change it? I read online that this process is called "domain parking" but didn't really understand how it works. I have seen the option to add a parking domain in my cpanel but if I just input the name I want my domain to have it tells me:
"Could not determine the nameserver IP addresses for “[domain name I tried to input]”. Please make sure that the domain is registered with a valid domain registrar.
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I have no idea what this means or what a "registrar" is. I googled extensively and I saw a lot of similar stuff but nothing clear enough like a tutorial and that's what I need a "click here, then click here.." kind of tutorial. I know little of servers, whm, cpanel and all that stuff. Just want to change the domain name :)
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Bear with me because I'm still learning about this. My description will probably be long. And please talk to me like a newbie:
My plan is to get multiple domains and through that, create multiple Google Workspace email accounts to send emails to different prospects in my emailing list.
On the emails that I send out from different email domain accounts, I was planning on just adding a link/hyperlink to my website for the recipients to click on & browse.
If I did that, would that ruin my reputation in the eyes of ISP? I fear that because my email domain doesn't match the website domain I'm hyperlinking will lower my reputation score. My fear is that I'll get blacklisted, get marked as spam, and many bad things, if I do it this way.
Thank you in advance for putting up with the long description. It's the best way for me to explain the situation.
I saw an article that says if my email domain and the domain being hyperlinked in the email message doesn't match, it's fine. It just depends on the hyperlinked domain's reputation and what I write on the hyperlink text (not misleading).
But I am just making sure by writing my question here.
And I think there is another way that might work, if this is not recommended:
Have the hyperlinked domain (website) to match with my email domain by connecting those multiple domains (that are used in my email accounts) to my primary domain (website).
Does that make sense?
Let me know if ANY OF THIS makes sense. Sorry again for my ignorance.
I'm working on WHMCS Latest Version 7. On submitting domain checker form, usually we get the domain availability information and domain suggestions with other extensions. For example: If we search for example.com, We will get a set of suggestions as follows.
example.net
example.org
I need another set of suggestions with some set of words appended with the keyword user selected as follows
theexmaple.net
myexample.net
exmapleonline.net
theexmaple.org
myexample.org
exmapleonline.org
Domain suggestions are implemented by Domain Registrar modules. You can use eNom or ResellerClub for their built in suggestions. Both of those will attempt to use related words in the name to get a better suggestion. If you want behavior exactly like you described, you can write a custom domain registrar module that adds the common prefixes and suffixes you're interested in and then returns results.
http://developers.whmcs.com/domain-registrars/availability-checks/
Sorry if this topic is not unique, but believe me, I've searched alot.
I've a website that users can subscribe and have a unique web page for themselves with address like this:
http://website.com/api/username
Now, I want to make them able to access their pages using addresses like this:
http://username.website.com
In fact, username comes here as a subdomain.
and I know I have to add a wildcard a record (* as name and website IP as address). I've made this changes.
But I couldn't find any .htaccess code working for my problem.
could you help me please?
Thanks in advance.
I run this site and I approve access for a section of the site for people. I only want to approve static ips. If i have a bunch of IPs how do I find out if they are static or not? I can do the remaining parts but there is probably some function in the socket library or something that lets me script the part to find if the users are using static or dynamic IP.
thanks !
Php/Js would work too.
There is no way to inherently tell if an IP address is static or dynamically assigned. Based on the hostname that the IPs resolve to, you could probably make a guess as to whether they are static or not, but there is nothing definitive to facilitate this.
You could use the socket module to resolve the IPs to hostnames and flag them as "static" or "dynamic" based on some kind of "best guess" algorithm, but it would be only that: a best guess.
Here is an example using a random Verizon FiOS IP address. This assumes that any IP starting with "pool" is dynamically assigned.
>>> hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr('71.243.222.111')[0]
>>> if 'pool' in hostname:
... print hostname, 'is dynamic'
...
pool-71-243-222-111.lsanca.fios.verizon.net is dynamic
You're going to have a very tough time determining all of the various naming conventions and this would in no way be a complete solution.
You might want to ask yourself what kind of problem you're trying to solve first, and whether filtering access by IP address is providing the kind of verification you need.
I'd use a pragmatic solution: New accounts have a trial phase of a few days. After that they can only log in from the same IP used to sign up. If they still have that same IP it's most likely static.
Well, you don't have a problem, do you? If they ask for access from IP X, you give them access from IP X. If it turns out that it was dynamic and they switch, they no longer have access. In practice, no access from dynamic IPs :)
Seriously though, the authority on IP assignment type is the host from which the user is accessing. Thus, you need to ask the user what it says in his/her config.
So for example, my domain is www.companyname.com. But our company name doesn't make it obvious what we actually do. Is it worth making the root of the site something like www.companyname.com/ancient-antiques/ , with a 301 redirect from the domain root? I'm thinking not just for SEO purposes (would we need to change anything in Webmaster Tools for this btw), but so that people who see us on the SERP immediately know what we do from behind our undescriptive domain name.
It will have little to no difference on your placement in search engines. The only thing that really matters is how your website is linked to. Google will know what your site is about, and external anchor text will gauge what keywords your site will qualify for. Outside of that, the keywords in your URI is irrelevent, so just build the best website you can and people will link to it.
Natural link building is the way to go.