Hey, guys. I'm planning on purchasing a domain name for my game squad and I had a couple questions. Does the domain selling company ask me where I want the site from? Like does it ask where my site is otherwise hosted i.e. www.cain.trap17.com? Or does it usually have you host up the files through their own ftp? I'm just not familiar with having my domain and that is why I'm asking these questions... Is it similar to a normal URL redirection like .tk? Or .cjb.net? Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Domain names just point to your site, the domain hosting company probably askes you for nameservers, which will help your domain get to your webhosting... You can park or add on domains, parking means the website will go to the site you host at trap17, addon would point to a directory inside your webhosting (So you can have multiple sites with addon domains)
You can use normal redirection, but that wont add the special features like email adresses @yourdomain.ext, subdomains and stuff.

Agreed.

I suggest you get your domain from a 'reputable' holder, such as verisign, go daddy, or yahoo. Reasons being that if you're not familiar with domain registration, you could be cheated out of features/etc. that you need, if register your domain with someone not as -trustworthy?-

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I guess I'm advocating Yahoo again. I am not an employee of Yahoo or receive compensation for passing out this information.

Yahoo is offering $1.99 per year up to 5 years. That's $9.95 for 5 years of domain of your choice. Good, right? Go to http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com for more details. It ends on September 20th, 1 minute before midnight.

Once you purchase a top level domain (like www.whatever.com) almost all good domain seller will give you DNS control panel where you can point to your hosing. This is called the nameservice. Trap17's nameservice are:
ns1.trap17.com
ns2.trap17.com

And just wait about 24~72 hours for propagation and viola you are hooked! During this updating period you can do two things. 1) you can ask admins to change your account domain to your purchased domain. 2) you can park your purchased domain using your cPanel. The option 1 is much more favorable since when a visitor bookmarks your pages that are deep in, the bookmark's address will not be www.yourname.trap17.com/filename.html When you park a domain name to a subdomain this will happen.

Remember that when you request your domain name to be changed, it will cost 10~15 hosting credits for administrator's time.

And continue to do what you have been doing with FTP and cPanel. The process is identical whether you own your own domain or have a subdomain. The difference is it's all in the name...

Update: I'm sorry. Yahoo is no longer offering $1.99. Shoot! I should've taken advantage of it. Please refer to this link for $4.98 per year http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?sho...ndpost&p=181547

This post has been edited by BuffaloHELP: Sep 4 2005, 01:20 AM

Buffalohelp tell me if i understood you correctly, did you say when i request to have my domain changed i lose 10 points? If so why?

I have a few questions to add to this, so if 1) I register my own domain, and want to use it on my site, I must ask admin first? 2)If I do do this will my old domain ____.trap17.com still work? 3)Adding, or Parking, which one? 4)Will any subdomains I have defined still work? 5)Will email address I have defined work with my new domain, ie admin@____.trap17.com == admin@____.com?


I believe that one of the features of cpanel is the ability of you to do this yourself, however trap17 has turned it off, and inorder to activate you must ask the admin, consider the points you are erning like money, you are paying the admin for the ability to use a domain.

Remember ladies and gentlemen, don't shoot the messenger.


Yes, you lose 10 credits. TRAP17 also uses credit as some sort of cash bases. It takes bit of work for administrators to open your log and amend your request and reset the server to be properly propagated. In order to minimize the frequent changes to one person, the administrator set the cost of 10 hosting credits for any types of domain change. Of course this does not imply that you are the one who's going to change every other day--it's just set there to make sure that the change you request is genuine and sincere.


No. You only make a request if you want your hosting to point directly at your domain name. This means, to simplify, when you have your hosting point directly to your domain, the status bar at the bottom of your browser will never show your subdomain's name. This is to prevent a visitor from bookmarking a wrong site. Again, this means lets say you were hosting with XYZ hosting and you found TRAP17. You had subdomain with XYZ, so your address was name.XYZ.com. A visitor bookmarked your name.XYZ.com/folder/page.html. And when you moved to TRAP17 your subdomain was name.trap17.com and name.trap17.com/folder/page.html. Now the visitor who bookmarked your old site cannot see that page and might think that your site is gone for good. This is why people prefer to have TDL (top domain level) name to look professional and never lose bookmarked customers.


Yes if you want it to. Let's say you did not request for domain name change. If you point your domain name to trap17's nameserver AND park the name of your domain to your trap17 subdomain, you can use them both.


This too is your call, although with your question parking would be ideal only if you don't want to change your domain name. The reasons were explained with the question 1.


It will not work when you change your domain name from trap17 subdomain to your TDL name. When you do change to TDL, you have to rename them, i.e. subname.TDL.com and fix all necessary links respectively


Yes as long as you do not change your domain name. But if you do, refer answer to your question 4. When you change your hosting to point to your domain name, your ___.trap17.com no longer exists. Therefore, any mail sent to ___.trap17.com will bounce back.

I would suggest to change to top domain level as your URL ONLY if your site can be moved and does not have huge followings or waiting for a critical data capture. Change only if all your members are willing to bookmark or learn the new URL and they are fine with that. Otherwise, I recommend parking your domain name to your trap17's subdomain--you lose no one and no one will know you changed.


You can use the auto mail catcher by setting it up through Email management system via cPanel. However this will only qualifies if you still have your trap17's subdomain name. If you changed to your TDL, you will lose any incoming mail to your former ___.trap17.com.

Wow, okay, just one point of clarification, you probably mentioned it, but I missed it, if I park my domain, my old subdomain will still work, but If someone were to type in y domain (the TLD) would that be the address they see in the URI bar for the remainder of that session?