BuffaloHELP

Sep 4 2005, 05:14 AM

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

QUOTE(farrah @ Sep 3 2005, 09:41 PM)

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?

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.

QUOTE(moldboy @ Sep 3 2005, 10:02 PM)

1) I register my own domain, and want to use it on my site, I must ask admin first?

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.

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2)If I do do this will my old domain ____.trap17.com still work?

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.

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3)Adding, or Parking, which one?

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.

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4)Will any subdomains I have defined still work?

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

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5)Will email address I have defined work with my new domain, ie admin@____.trap17.com == admin@____.com?

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.

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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 in order 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.

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.

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BuffaloHELP

Sep 6 2005, 01:22 AM

QUOTE(moldboy @ Sep 4 2005, 11:17 AM)

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?

Now someone will correct me if I'm wrong. I personally do not have the working experience with the redirect as of recently. When you purchase TLD (I've been typing it as TDL sorry) a good company you purchased from will have redirect feature. When you use that feature the URL will stay as www.yourDomainName.com and nothing more. But all your links should show up as www.yourName.trap17.com on the status bar (the little tool bar located at the bottom of your browser). When you park your domain you have to write a special script to keep your URL to show your TLD name otherwise, i.e. homepage --> yoursubdomain.yourName.trap17.com will show because you are going from one domain name to another. A good example of redirect is .co.nr domain names. I used to have one and pointed to geocities. Whenever I typed name.co.nr/fileName it was correspondent to my geocities.com/myName/fileName.

So if you have many subdomains in your cPanel and you would like to provide a direct link to let's say your forum by www.youDomainName.com/forum then a redirect option will be less troublesome.

I hope I have explained it well. Again, if I'm wrong someone will correct my post. Please feel free to keep posting your question, no matter how farfetched it may sound, okay?

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