Questions tagged [domain]
A collection of computers or other networked resources.
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Where does email sent to *@example.com go? [closed]
So I've wondered this for a long time.
Where does email sent to *@example.com go? If I accidentally sent sensitive information to *@example.com would some evil person (potentially at the IANA) be ...
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Can I create a top level TLD? (.michael for instance)
It appears that ICANN is allowing the creation of top level domains. Instead of 'registering' a domain, you would essentially be signing up to be a registrar (you'd be giving out registrations on ...
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What is the difference between a hostname and a fully qualified domain name?
I am new to the world of setting up servers and am baffled by the term hostname and fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
For example, if I want to set up a server that hosts files on the local network ...
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How to redirect domain A to domain B using A-Records and CNAME records only
I have 2 domains hosted with different hosts. I need to redirect Domain A to Domain B. Unfortunately I can't do a 301 redirect from Host A, but can only modify/add DNS entries (A-Records and CNAMEs) ...
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How the heck is http://to./ a valid domain name?
Apparently it's a URL shortener. It resolves just fine in Chrome and Firefox. How is this a valid top-level domain?
Update: for the people saying it's browser shenanigans, why is it that: http://com./...
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Government censors HTTPS traffic to our website. Workarounds?
I am helping run a website that has been blocked for political reasons by the same Russian agency that has previously tried blocking Telegram (RosKomNadzor). This is not the first time it happens, and ...
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Why does Heroku warn against "naked" domain names?
I ran across this page in the Heroku docs...
Naked domains, also called bare or apex domains, are configured in DNS via A-records and have serious availability implications when used in highly ...
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How should I setup separate MX records for a subdomain?
Let's say I have a domain that I run a web application on, for example cranketywidgets.com, and I'm using Google Apps for handling email for people working on that domain, for example, support@ ...
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Is there a site that can track all the domain names I own?
I've been using a spreadsheet to keep track of domain names. Is there a web service anywhere that maintains a domain name database and tracks all the domains we own? The most important feature is that ...
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Create Unix Named Socket from the Command Line
Is there a command similar to mkfifo but for domain sockets?
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Simple apache2 redirect from one domain to another
What I want to do is the following:
My domain xy.example.com no longer exists. Thus I want to do a simple redirect to the new domain abc.example.com. It should be a redirect, that also works when ...
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How to test DNS glue record?
Hello I have just set up a DNS server for my domain example.org with 2 name servers ns1.example.org and ns2.example.org. I have attempted to set up a glue record for ns1 and ns2 at my registrar.
It ...
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Does Google Domains support CNAME-like functionality at the zone apex?
This functionality is required for properly directing a root domain to Heroku:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#cname-functionality-at-the-apex
Some registrars, like DNSimple, ...
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What's the meaning of logging in as "[email protected]:something"
My Windows 2008 R2 machine is joined to a domain.
In the logon screen, if I type in "[email protected]:something" as the username, I can still logon properly, what's the meaning of ":something" ...
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If I own a domain do I own all of its sub domains?
If I own a domain do I own all of its sub domains?
For example if I purchase example.com, do I automatically own mail.example.com, blog.example.com, etc?
If I do not own the sub domains, can anyone ...
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Check if user password input is valid in Powershell script
I am working with a Powershell script that adds scheduled tasks to systems in our domain. When I run this script, it will prompt me for my password. I sometimes fat finger the password and the process ...
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Why is it a bad idea to use a customer email as the from address
I've got an application that emails users once they have filled in a form. It uses a [email protected] as a from address. The customer wants it to use the email from the form as the from ...
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Why doesn't Kosovo have its own ccTLD yet? [closed]
Why is it that Kosovo still hasn't got its own ccTLD?
Kosovo is (semi)-independent, from Serbia (former Yugoslavia), since 2008. Montenegro is independent since 2006. Montenegro has the .me domain ...
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How to find all hostnames in DNS attached to one IP?
If I have multiple hosts configured on one machine (a la apache's VirtualHosts), how can I do a lookup on the IP and find all domains configured to reach it?
For example, I have several web and email ...
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Amount of allowed subdomains in domain and email
How many subdomains can you have on your domain? And with that, I mean levels of subdomains.
For example, you have the domain example.com, I know you can have test.example.com, but how many levels ...
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How do I convince my company to invest in IT - domains, security, etc.?
I work for a small-medium size retailer which has half a dozen high street stores and a website.
The IT situation is currently in a very basic state. As being "Head of IT" is only a small part of my ...
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Domain login very slow 10+ minutes
We are racking our brains trying to figure this problem out an are currently stuck!
Basically we are having issues with some users taking ages to log in in the mornings, some times up to 20 minutes, ...
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What is a cookie-free domain?
What is a cookie-free domain? I've seen these words many times but I never understood what it is.
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PTR record (rDNS) for multiple domains on a shared IP address
I host multiple domains on a single IP address:
cats.com
A @ --> 10.20.30.40
A mail --> 10.20.30.40
MX @ --> mail
dogs.com
A @ --> 10.20.30.40
A mail --> 10.20.30.40
MX @ --> ...
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Access my server through SSH with the domain (with Cloudflare)
I have this server (44.44.44.44, for instance) running a webserver. I have routed pollnote.com to the server to access my webserver. Everything works fine.
To access the server, I added my Public Key ...
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My public website name and AD domain name are the same. How can I get to my external website from inside my network?
I am using my domain example.orgin my firm. I can use www.example.orgto view my website. If I try http://example.org from outsite my firm there is no problem, but if I try it from inside, my windows ...
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nginx proxy subdomains to other addresses and ports [closed]
I'm newbie with nginx, but I need to create some proxy rules based on the subdomain to redirect to another IP and Port.
This is my case:
My domain.com has IP y.y.y.y and accepts requests on port 80
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Difference between DHCP options 'Domain-Name' and 'Domain-Search'
What is the difference between the two?
I had thought that domain-name would put the client on the specified domain (ie. If the domain-name was set to "foo.bar" the clients FQDN would be '...
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Is the hostname part of HTTP(S) URLs truly case-insensitive?
Is it safe to use http(s)://CompanyName.com/xyz as URL (e.g. for branding purposes) without any changes to the service-side configs?
I know that DNS is case-insensitive, but could there still be side-...
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Kerberos Authentication for workstations not on domain
I have a base understanding of how Kerberos works in an Active Directory environment and the methods it uses to authenticate users and workstations onto the network, but my question is.. since ...
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Setting up SPF and DKIM records of a subdomain
I need to setup SPK and DKIM record for mail.mydomain.com. I have set the following at namecheap -
For SPF -
Record type :TXT
Hostname : mail.mydomain.com
Value : v=spf1 ip4:x.x.x.x ~all
For ...
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How can I find the WHOIS server for any TLD? [closed]
I'm looking for a reliable and up-to-date list of WHOIS Servers to use in a whois script.
Since the list changes frequently, it'd be nice if there were a resource I could refer to rather than having ...
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How come com can't be resolved?
I realize how some might think this isn't exactly constructive, buuuut, I was wondering how come you can't resolve com, org, us, ru, or any other top level domain? I am taking this is as a learning ...
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Apache CustomLog to log full URL
I'd like to add a CustomLog directive to my apache configuration to log the full URL requested (or at least the host portion of the URL). I have several domains being handled by the same instance of ...
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Postfix - do not list domain example.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_alias
I have a server with two domains. I get the warning as mentioned in the title:
do not list domain example.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_alias
Although I receive the above warning, it works ...
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Does transferring a domain transfers DNS records?
Does transferring a domain name automatically transfer all DNS records? I'm transferring to GoDaddy. I'm particularly concerned with the MX records and others which one creates for Google Apps Email ...
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How to convert a domain account to a local account
I have a Windows 7 laptop that was connected to a Windows domain controller. The domain controller is no longer in operation and has been shut off. The laptop, now stand alone, works fine, but I want ...
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AD Administrator account logon mystery - last logon timestamp
We've found the domain Administrator account - which we do not use except in the event of a disaster recovery scenario - has a recent date in the LastLogonTimeStamp attribute. As far as I am aware, no-...
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How to share domain name with multiple servers?
I have a website on shared hosting and would like to setup another host (semi-dedicated server) and use the same domain name as the shared hosting.
Is it possible to have two separate servers share ...
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Can I use the character ñ in a sub-domain?
We are launching our website in Spanish and are probably going to call it
espanol.mydomain.com
Since the real spelling is español, ideally we would allow people to type español.mydomain.com.
Is ...
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How do you register a domain without a TLD?
So I found this website that is visitable and does not have a TLD? Anyone got any idea how to do this?
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How to point 2 different domains to 1 IP address (Apache)?
I have two different domain names, which I want to host on the same private hosting I have. I want them to point to the same IP address and yet have different content (of course). How can I do that? ...
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Single server, nginx as a reverse proxy, multiple domains/websites
I have this nginx config for my website on https where nginx is used as a reverse proxy server:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name ...
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Will I lose my .fr second-level domain once I am no longer a resident of Europe?
Hopefully this question is appropriate here.
The .fr TLD stands for France and is managed by AFNIC. In order to register for second-level domains under this TLD, one is required to be a resident of ...
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How do I prevent Apache from answering requests for domains I don't host?
Someone has pointed their domain (www.bomberball.net) to the same IP as my domain (www.kapparate.com) , and Google is now showing the former when searching for Kapparate, rather than the latter. What'...
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OpenLDAP, Samba and password aging
I'm configuring a system in which all IT resources are available through a single user-password pair, be it access to shell on the servers, logging to Samba domain, WiFi, OpenVPN, Mantis, etc. (with ...
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Is there any way to point the root domain to a CNAME? [duplicate]
Here is the problem: we host our website with an external provider that doesn't give us an IP address, rather, they give us a domain where we point our www CNAME record to. I assume they are using ...
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How to remove ourselves from nudity blacklists? [duplicate]
We recently bought our domain. It turns out, two generations ago, it was a porn site.
Now we're still blocked in some filters, resulting in blocked pages at several corporate routers.
I'm now ...
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When are DNS "glue" (or "host") records needed?
I kind of know why glue records are needed (cyclic dependencies), but when are they needed? Are they only needed when setting a domain's nameservers to my own machine on the internet - like "ns1....
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What is the 'cacert.pem' and for what to use that?
I am developing a web application on localhost with domains and sub-domains and I would like to use a HTTPS connection. On my Mac OS, in order to enable SSL, I need to set Apache correctly, so I ...
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