I'm afraid this isn't really a Linux question but I'm sure I'll get a helpful answer here anyway.
I have some domains registered via http://www.ukfsn.org/extras/ (it's ukfsn reselling a US domain registry) and now I want to host the actual sites with another US company where we have isbd.biz registered and hosted.
To do this properly do I need to transfer the domains the to registrar that hosts isbd.biz? I know I can forward from the existing host but I believe that does have some down sides to it.
A FAQ or something on the general suject of domains would be useful, the FAQ's at the hosting/registration sites tend to have a rather narrow approach.
On 3/25/06, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
I have some domains registered via http://www.ukfsn.org/extras/ (it's ukfsn reselling a US domain registry) and now I want to host the actual sites with another US company where we have isbd.biz registered and hosted.
To do this properly do I need to transfer the domains the to registrar that hosts isbd.biz? I know I can forward from the existing host but I believe that does have some down sides to it.
No, you shouldn't need to transfer the domain. Your domain registration points to a DNS server or two. This then will direct look ups for things like www.yourdomain.com to a webserver, and the webserver needs to be configured to differentiate between www.yourdomain.com and www.somebodyelsesdomain.com.
Thus you need to find out which of ukfsn or isbd is hosting, or will host, the DNS for your domain.
Good luck! Tim.
Tim Green wrote:
No, you shouldn't need to transfer the domain. Your domain registration points to a DNS server or two. This then will direct look ups for things like www.yourdomain.com to a webserver, and the webserver needs to be configured to differentiate between www.yourdomain.com and www.somebodyelsesdomain.com.
Depending on the type of site, having your DNS on a different server, indeed with a different provider, from your website can have some useful benefits. In the event of a major hardware failure at the web host, for example, you can use the DNS to redirect traffic to an alternative host pretty quickly (how quickly depends on DNS reload times and TTLs, and 24-48 hrs isn't uncommon but can be improved upon). DNS should be on at least two hosts anyway so is not so sensitive to a single failure (unless, as happened with our ISP recently, both DNS are on the same network behind the same PSU that goes pop, but that just means you should pick a decent ISP).
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