Domain Aliases

[Ali]

Hi,

Question lol: What is a domain Alias?

I've got one availiable in HELM but not sure what it does.

My original domain transferred to Catalyst2.com is Alicolville.com. I got another domain (Alicoholic.co.uk) that I registered with OneandOne.co.uk that currently redirects to AliColville.com.

Can an Alias do anything good in my case? lol

Cheers,

Ali

[muppet]

A domain alias basically means that say you have mydomain.com and you then buy mydomain.co.uk you can get mydomain.co.uk to act exactly like mydomain.com.

To do this you point both at Catalyst2, (without adding mydomain.co.uk to HELM), go into mydomain.com and add the domain alias mydomain.co.uk. This will then 'forward' mydomain.co.uk to mydomain.com. Although you already have this setup with your other provider, that may only redirect rather than properly sharing all elements so it might be advantageous to use the HELM domain alias facility so that all mailboxes, ftp sites, web addresses will all share the ability to use both suffixes. I'm not sure what you have set up with oneandone so I can't really be sure if it will help.

Let me know if you have any q's. I think I'm right, but I've only set a couple up and haven't really tested everything out.

Rich

[Ali]

Thanks for that Rich,

I think I will change it do work with Catalyst. I take it I'll be able to use ftp.alicoholic.co.uk, etc?

When you say point the domain to Catalyst2 do you mean www.catalyst2.com or some sort of server address?

Thanks again,

Ali

[paulredpath]

You will have ftp.yourdomain etc. When we say point it means change the nameservers on the domain.

[Ali]

Thanks Paul,

What do I change the nameserver to?

Cheers,

Ali

[paulredpath]

For windows ns1.catalyst2.net and ns2.catalyst2.net

[Ali]

Thanks for that Paul.

Unfortunately oneanone.co.uk don't allow you to specify nameservers... doh.

Ali

[WhiskyFudge]

If you transfer your domain away from them to Cat2, Paul will be able to change the records for you.

Jas

[paulredpath]

Ali you need to transfer the domain to IPStag FASTHOSTS can do this with 1&1 at https://contract.oneandone.co.uk

[Ali]

Without sounding like the gadgy student that I am... will this cost be a lot of bucks?

[paulredpath]

No the transfer is free.

[Ali]

Thanks for the help so far...

Is there a step by step guide anyway for doing this? I logged into onandone.co.uk as instructed, and all I could do was cancel contract?

I've never had to do this before so don't really want to cock it up.

Cheers,

Ali

[paulredpath]

Im afraid i only know what previous customers have told me

[Tim Marshall]

Ali

One of my customers recently changed his IPSTAG from ONEANDONE to FASTHOSTS and didn't have to pay either. It was a bit complicated however, probably a ploy to keep you.
What you need to do is follow the instructions to close your account as you've discovered and it will ask you what you wish to do and will have a box to enter your new IPSTAG in, ie FASTHOSTS.
Thats pretty much it, other than they will require a fax confirmation stating why you're leaving for security reasons but thats it. The change was done and dusted 3 days later which isn't too bad and then viewable in your FASTHOSTS account.
Just in case the FASTHOSTS thing is confusing whilst you're waiting for them to change the tag you need to go to www.ukreg.com and setup an account there. Once you've done this you can when the IPSTAG is changed bring in the domain name to your account and change name servers etc from there no problem. Please don't worry that its FASTHOSTS, whilst they have terrible hosting and terrible prices the domain side of their business is great and free to escape if you so desire.
If you have any further queries then feel free to post them and i'l answer them too.

Regards

Tim Marshall

[Ali]

Thanks for that Tim (and everyone else). I'll give it a try!

Ali