Can anyone recommend a South African registrar that provides DNS management for .co.za domains? [more inside]
posted by Hartster on Sep 23, 2009 - 3 answers

Do I keep two domains separate but identical, or do I pick one and point the other to it? [more inside]
posted by jaffacakerhubarb on Jul 6, 2009 - 6 answers

Want to acquire a domain name that is the plural of our company's name. [more inside]
posted by sfdrew77 on May 22, 2009 - 10 answers

What is the best process for back-ordering a .CA domain? [more inside]
posted by chudmonkey on Mar 5, 2009 - 4 answers

What's the best way to buy international, especially European, TLDs? [more inside]
posted by Hartster on Feb 27, 2009 - 2 answers

Domains, Email Addresses, and The Drop: Following an earlier question on MeFi, I'd quite like a unique professional email address, but my name is common and almost all ".com" variants have been snapped. Lend me your kind ears and your valuable hive experiences and advice. [more inside]
posted by ashaw on Dec 25, 2008 - 21 answers

Best way to make money off of unused domains? Sell or sign up for PPC? [more inside]
posted by specialk420 on Nov 16, 2008 - 2 answers

A question about Internet domains and DNS: What happened to the number of registered domains between 10/07 and 11/07? For the first time they dropped, and significantly: 2 million domains were unregistered. [more inside]
posted by about_time on Nov 7, 2008 - 8 answers

Dear Hive Mind, I'm thinking of switching my college's wordpress.com literary blog to its own domain using wordpress.org. But I don't know if this is the right thing to do. [more inside]
posted by omnigut on Oct 27, 2008 - 5 answers

A friend is buying a website that I've built, as well as the domain name. He's taken possession of the actual site (i.e., the software that runs it), so now I need to make him the owner of the domain. How do I do it? [more inside]
posted by inkedmn on Sep 29, 2008 - 3 answers

The website of my domain registrar (domains410.com) and its parent company (parava.net) has been down for the past 36+ hours. Is there any way to transfer my domains at another registrar at this time? [more inside]
posted by agenais on Sep 15, 2008 - 1 answer

Who is the appropriate party to file a complaint with, for a problem with a US locality (*.portland.or.us, NOT *.us) domain registrar that is not updating DNS records as requested? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Sep 9, 2008 - 4 answers

If I host 2 domains (for example, www.work.com and www.family.com) on the same basic Dreamhost hosting package, is there any way for someone -- other than Dreamhost -- to associate the two domains?
posted by probablysteve on Aug 20, 2008 - 18 answers

Web Business Filter: How I can help my clients utilize the domain names they have which are related to/associated with their their main flagship business website? Forward traffic? Create minisites? Advice needed please! [more inside]
posted by Scramblejam on Jul 9, 2008 - 6 answers

Please help me price this deal. Got a call from a company that specializies in rights clearances for television and feature films. They would like to use my domain as a backdrop in their story. While they have been short on what part the domain plays exact in their story, they did say "would like to use the website on a computer screen as set dressing in our upcoming motion picture" and "Production will create their own web design for the page with a still of one of our lead characters. We feel that this use would lend an authentic touch to our production. " Any recommendations on how I should approach this? and the way to make this most profitable for me?
posted by boyinmiami on Jun 3, 2008 - 17 answers

How may one obtain access to a web site, or ownership of the domain, of someone who had recently died? [more inside]
posted by brandnew on Apr 27, 2008 - 4 answers

What do I need to do to allow users to point their domains to my web service? [more inside]
posted by jcruden on Apr 4, 2008 - 6 answers

My friends have a webhosting account with Network Solutions. NetSol seems to be saying that you cannot point a .ca domain-name to that account. Is that really true? Are .Mac accounts compatible with .ca domains? If the answer to both is no, can you recommend a webhost for .ca domains? (They have already bought the domain.) [NB: I don't want to just use a page forwarder - that is, I want www.mysite.ca/blogs/newblog etc urls to work.] Thanks!
posted by Marquis on Mar 27, 2008 - 5 answers

Best way to perform this Active Directory black magic? Our company has dozens of Windows terminal servers at remote locations (client sites), and we need a way to centralize Active Directory. [more inside]
posted by arnold on Mar 25, 2008 - 5 answers

Who really owns a domain? If a company registers a domain under the name of an individual, who really owns the domain and what are their rights? [more inside]
posted by missmagenta on Mar 21, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there such a thing as a domain name agent? Like a real estate agent, but for .com (or other) domains instead of chunks of land? [more inside]
posted by yoga on Mar 6, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm considering registering a .ae (United Arab Emirates) domain name for my business. I've got a couple concerns. [more inside]
posted by me3dia on Feb 12, 2008 - 7 answers

PornFilter question- some of you metaheads might remember our last question here; wanted to say a big thank you for those suggestions. (I will also be taking metahead Britain’s advice and will be giving a donation to the charity of your choice, will determine thru another post). Question inside due to graphic nature/language. Not for the easily offended. Thanks :) [more inside]
posted by boyinmiami on Feb 6, 2008 - 44 answers

My university department has a dept.com as well as a dept.univ.edu domain. The .com is just a pointer to the .edu. dept.com is the top google result for searches on our name, but results for dept.univ.edu are buried many pages deep. Here is the problem: there is now a problem with registration of dept.com, so Google's links are not working. What can we do? Is it possible to have Google replace instances of one with another or something? [more inside]
posted by Fred Mars on Nov 14, 2007 - 9 answers

Help us name our new Adult (porn) website!!!! Question inside due to graphic nature/language. Not for the easily offended. Thanks :) [more inside]
posted by boyinmiami on Sep 26, 2007 - 45 answers

$1888 for a domain more soon [more inside]
posted by DJWeezy on May 31, 2007 - 16 answers

Two Part Question: 1) Do some educational institutions flag ALL .com e-mails as spam? 2) Is it unseemly for a for-profit company to use the non-restricted .org TLD for its e-mail addresses? [more inside]
posted by MaxVonCretin on Apr 5, 2007 - 17 answers

I'm trying to buy a Canadian domain name (.ca) and every registrar that I've tried tells me that my Canadian corporation name is not valid. [more inside]
posted by clarissajoy on Nov 22, 2006 - 13 answers

How do you uniquely route traffic from a large number of domains to a single server? [more inside]
posted by Mutant on Jun 18, 2006 - 17 answers

It is possible to have two distinct email servers (for two sets of non-overlapping addresses) for the same domain? [more inside]
posted by tiamat on Apr 25, 2006 - 14 answers

How can I get a list of every unregistered 4-letter domain name? [more inside]
posted by reklaw on Apr 17, 2006 - 24 answers

Looking for a free historical WHOIS domain lookup? [more inside]
posted by superfem on Apr 1, 2006 - 3 answers

Questions about registering a .gu domain name [more inside]
posted by mikepop on Mar 16, 2006 - 5 answers

Is there an easy, free way for me to figure out which country a website visitor is coming from? Or more specifically, if a user is not in the US? [more inside]
posted by gramcracker on Mar 13, 2006 - 9 answers

I'm looking for recent research on Web site names, looking at both branding and domain name selection, especially concerning non-standard (not .com, .net or .org) domains. [more inside]
posted by grrarrgh00 on Feb 24, 2006 - 7 answers

Determining the value of a domain name for lease. [more inside]
posted by crunchland on Feb 6, 2006 - 3 answers

My domain registrar has blocked access to my control panel which allows me to make configuration changes to my domain names (DNS server info, transfers, etc.). I have 12 domain names registered through this registrar. They use an "account" system so all of my domains can be configured from one control panel. However, even though 11 of my domains are paid-up and current, they have locked me out of my entire account control panel because of 1 unpaid domain. I am unable to do anything with all the other domains that I own which are paid-up. Does anyone know if blocking configuration access to the 11 other domains is okay per their accreditation agreement with ICANN? It seems odd. I have written ICANN, but it said it could be up to four days for a response - and I need in my Control Panel! BTW, in case you're wondering, the payment on the 1 domain is being disputed.
posted by Independent Scholarship on Nov 7, 2005 - 17 answers

I have a blog at http://depravedlibrarian.blogspot.com (I've also registerd the domain and will eventually put up a forwarding page). I misstyped this in the location bar: http://depravedlibrarian.blogpsot.com and found that registrant for this site and all the other Amazingbiblestudies sites (I checked 3 other Blogger address) is the same registrant. While it's not exactly domain hijacking, what can I, or should I do about this? How else can I get the word out about this? Thanks for your suggestions.
posted by gleenyc on May 26, 2005 - 24 answers

CelebrityDomainFilter: what are the "rules" for websites under the [famousperson].com domains? the famous "more inside" [more inside]
posted by petebest on Feb 7, 2005 - 5 answers

i gave my mother an email on my domain, and, being a woman of a certain age, most of her friends use AOL. unfortunately, AOL is blocking all emails from my domain. i think my doman name was hijacked for spam in the past. how do i get AOL to stop blocking my domain?
posted by callicles on Sep 28, 2004 - 14 answers

What are the benefits and drawbacks of hosting blogging software on a domain separate from a blog's domain? The only advantage I see is that it keeps my blog's log files clear of my MovableType 3.11 installation, resulting in cleaner traffic reports. I see no disadvantages. Is it better to just make subdomain for the software installation?
posted by bitpart on Sep 15, 2004 - 4 answers

Domain Squating. These people have a domain I want. Are they reputable? Anyone dealt with them, or companies like them? Is it generally safe to send companies like this $50 in order to get the domain I want? Or is it all a scam?
posted by ChasFile on Jul 19, 2004 - 9 answers

How do you value a domain name? More specifically I am a member of a webmaster newsboard that has domain names for sale. When I inquired about a certain domain I was told the owner was looking in the $X,XXX range for it. Yet I don't see how a domain could be valued at that price range when I see sites with full content selling for less than that. Is a domain really that valuable anymore? I don't think it is. Yes a .com is better than a .net or .org or whatever, but to ask for $1,000+ for a domain is just kinda pricey I think when the domain hasn't been doing anything other than pointing to another url.
posted by thebwit on Jul 5, 2004 - 5 answers

I have a friend who wants to set up a movable type based weblog on a new (yet to be registered/determined) domain. Are there any webhosts that offer some sort of movable type webhosting plan, that is one with movable type already installed? Alternately, any recommendations for movable type freindly webhosts would be appreciated.
posted by darainwa on Jul 3, 2004 - 6 answers

I am in the process of purchasing a domain from it's current owner. What's the easiest way to transfer it to my own account?
posted by renyoj on May 7, 2004 - 4 answers

nameroute.com -- has anyone had good or bad experiences with them as a host? i believe they are also somehow related to hostroute.com, in case that helps.
posted by sa3z on Mar 18, 2004 - 3 answers

Is it possible to register domains with the Cuban .cu suffix? My searches online have come up with nothing, but I can't tell if this is because the market is dominated by American companies.
posted by twine42 on Mar 5, 2004 - 4 answers

I'm considering buying a domain, and setting up a personal site. This wouldn't be a problem, really, except that I've got over five years of content on my current personal site in various formats, and I don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. [Very long, very geeky details inside. Not for the faint of heart.] [more inside]
posted by Jairus on Feb 5, 2004 - 6 answers

What's the best very cheap web- and email-hosting provider? Most packages are geared for small business, but this is for a personal site, so the web-hosting part of it is secondary to my primary purpose of using a less generic domain name (hotmail/yahoo don't cut it).

What I want is a solid combination of reliable pop and webmail at a domain of my choosing, with ~50MB space, for less than $5/month. I'm currently considering doteasy.com and netfirms.com, and doteasy is winning but for the 20MB space they provide.
posted by Sinner on Jan 27, 2004 - 28 answers

What is the best way to sell a domain name? I checked out a couple of domain name auction sites, but it is difficult to tell which are legit and/or get much traffic.
posted by rushmc on Jan 22, 2004 - 1 answer