Transfer Your Hosting and Domain Names to Fastdot Web Hosting
Transfer Your Hosting and Domain Names to another account A product transfer occurs when you want to: Remove a particular domain name or hosting package from an existing account and…
DNS and Domains
DNS Propagation
DNS Propagation When the name servers or individual records in a DNS zone are modified, it can take several hours for all the computer systems around the world to…
Domain Portfolio
Domain Portfolio Protect your name by purchasing your domain in all relevant extensions (e.g, .com.au and .com). This will prevent unauthorized parties registering your name, as well as helping people…
Registrant Verification Email – Domain Name FAQs
Registrant Verification Email – Domain Name FAQs This KB article will try to answer questions around how FASTDOT and OpenSRS will handle Registrant Validation. Q: Who is the Registrant? A:…
What is the DNS Root Zone?
This tutorial will explain what the root zone is in DNS The DNS root zone, sometimes referred to as the dot (.) zone, is the first point of contact for…
Stealth Nameserver Records
This tutorial will explain what stealth nameserver records are Stealth nameserver records are sent when the authoritative zone file has been delegated to a different pair of nameservers. e.g, at the…
What is ICANN?
What is ICANN? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every address is unique…
ICANN : Registrant Verification Email – Domain Name FAQs
ICANN : Registrant Verification Email – Domain Name FAQs This KB article will try to answer questions around how FASTDOT and OpenSRS will handle Registrant Validation via the Registrant Verification…
ICANN : Validating a registrant’s email address
ICANN : Validating a registrant’s email address Effective immediately, the registrant contact email needs to be validated upon the purchase or transfer of a domain name, or if the registrant’s…
Domain Name Propagation
Once you make changes to your domain with the registrar you purchased your domain from, the domain name propagation changes will take anywhere from 5 minutes to 72 hours for…
DNS Cache – Clearing DNS Cache and Changing DNS server settings
When a domain name‘s nameservers change, there can be an annoyingly long wait until those DNS changes propagate and the website becomes accessible again. Apart from waiting for your ISP…
CNAME and A records, when should they be used?
What is the difference between CNAME and A records, and when should they be used? This tutorial is designed to clear up some of the confusion around the differences between…
Free DNS hosting with FASTDOT
Free DNS hosting with FASTDOT So you are looking at taking your domain folio to the next step? Fastdot offers free DNS hosting to customers or resellers with 10 domains…
Essential tools to troubleshoot DNS issues
Here are a list of essential tools to troubleshoot DNS issues associated with your domain. WHOIS tools to troubleshoot DNS Domaintools WHOIS lookup service Domaintools WHOIS lookup service is a…
How to Park a Domain Name
The main reasons for parking a domain name include – giving your website a number of domain options – you might be registering several similar domain names that you want…