domain expert nid ur help

[pleeted]

hi, i have purchase a domain name, however for some hosting provider, when i ask for redrection, they charge me for $20+ coz of the domain parking issue.

i wonder y is tat so? cos I check with other company and they will provide the redirection for free. is there any special reason they do tat?

if i dun 1 2 pay for the $20+, is there other way I can do such as using free services like no-ip.com and stuff?

coz i'm quite new on tat, plz advise~

[liangtam]

so as to rip u off lor...

[djcoolmax]

hi, i have purchase a domain name, however for some hosting provider, when i ask for redrection, they charge me for $20+ coz of the domain parking issue.

i wonder y is tat so? cos I check with other company and they will provide the redirection for free. is there any special reason they do tat?

if i dun 1 2 pay for the $20+, is there other way I can do such as using free services like no-ip.com (http://no-ip.com) and stuff?

coz i'm quite new on tat, plz advise~

How are you doing the redirect? via DNS or web server or application?

[pleeted]

i'm nt sure, juz a simple redirect from .sg domain to my blog.

[PinZzz]

so many types of redirection method.. from DNS records to .htaccess.. and many other ways...

[pleeted]

some got talk about mx, i wonder what is the diff? if for a html, is simply use javascript to redirect will do. coz i purchase the name only then i dun even know a redirection is so complicated.

[missyevo]

yes as long u have control of your DNS servers.

[pleeted]

ok now i switch to another provider. There have a dns zone for me to configure. As I stuck there for a long time.

I have the option to add a A, NS, CName, MX, Txt and SRV. I wonder which option should I choose in order to redirect the domain to a blog? I have researched on the net and found out I need to use A and CName. But to no avail.

As I notice that whichever blog i ping, it always give me the same ip address.

Pls advise.

[liangtam]

cname
10 char

[jansenkhoo]

shouldnt ur hosting provider have dns servers for u to input into your domain control panel?

[pleeted]

I think have, but which value should I put, let say I ping my blog and it return 216.239.61.191 , I add a CName and A into it. But it still won't redirect. Cos I ping any blog *.blogspot.com it will return me this 216.239.61.191 . Sorry I am totally new on this thingy.

[liangtam]

xxx.blogspot.com is a subdomain, most shared hosting uses something called vhost to determine user acc space. even tho it points to the same ip, entering ip itself will not load ur page since the HTTPd cannot determine which user.

To point your domain to blog,

CNAME: www.domainname.com Alias xxx.blogspot.com.

This way, the domain is mapped to the relevant url

[jansenkhoo]

if you are using blogspot then read this: www DOT google DOT com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373

[pleeted]

if you are using blogspot then read this: www DOT google DOT com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373

yup, this is the page i tried yesterday and it seems giving me some problem. whenever i do, it keep redirecting to google page. perhaps i miss out some step or the guide is not use for my scenario.

xxx.blogspot.com is a subdomain, most shared hosting uses something called vhost to determine user acc space. even tho it points to the same ip, entering ip itself will not load ur page since the HTTPd cannot determine which user.

To point your domain to blog,

CNAME: www.domainname.com Alias xxx.blogspot.com.

This way, the domain is mapped to the relevant url

I have cleared all my A name and CName and tried your method, I believe I will need to wait for a few hours to see the result.

Will update soon.

[liangtam]

Nowadays domain entries dosn't take so long to expire and update.

[pleeted]

err, now it redirect my page domain to google homepage. I have remove and set a CNAME to myblogspot.com. Is it because they get the ip address of the blog instead? As now i ping my domain and it get 216.239.61.191 which is equivalent to google.

[quekky]

CNAME or A alone wouldn't work

you still need to tell google to listen to your domain name also (see 2nd part of the google help)

[pleeted]

CNAME or A alone wouldn't work

you still need to tell google to listen to your domain name also (see 2nd part of the google help)
yup, finaly it works, thanx 4 all de help. Hopefully blogger is the most troublesome redirection i have encountered :p