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NameStick DNS
FAQ
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What services do you provide?
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How do I get started? What nameservers do I use?
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What are your DNS policies?
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What are your terms of service?
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How reliable are your servers?
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Are there any limits to what you provide?
DNS:
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What is DNS?
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Where can I learn more about DNS?
Domain Management:
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What can I control via the DNS Domain Manager?
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What is an "A" record?
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What is an "MX" record?
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What is a "CNAME" record?
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What is a WebForward™?
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What is a MailForward™?
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How do I create a default MailForward™ for my domain?
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How do I MailForward™ the same mailbox to multiple
recipients?
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Do you support round-robin DNS?
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Why can't I have the same domain name in multiple record
types?
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Why can't I delete the "A" record for the root name of my
domain?
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How many records can I create for my domain name?
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What services do you provide?
We host reliable DNS servers, e-mail servers for email
forwarding, and web servers for URL forwarding and parked
domains. We provide a convenient single-location,
integrated, web-based domain manager for configuring all of
the services provided.
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How do I get started? What nameservers do I use?
Here's a simple step by step set of instructions on how
to get started:
- you must buy a new name from or transfer an existing
name to NameStick.com (no exceptions)
- If transferring, wait for the transfer to be approved -
you will be notified - this can take up to 5 days.
- log into your account
- Your nameservers will already reflect ns1.namestick.com
and ns2.namestick.com - if not, you should change them to
reflect this.
- make necessary changes that came with your instructions
for use after you bought or transferred.
- wait up to 3 days for the change to take place
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What are your policies?
Check out our policies page.
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What are your terms of service?
Check out our terms page.
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How reliable are your servers?
We have never experienced a DNS, web or e-mail outage in its
history. Even still, we are planning improvements to our
network that should make us the most robust DNS provider on
the internet.
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Are there any limits to what you provide?
* There is a bandwidth limitation per domain per year of 200
megabytes of total data transferred through our servers.
Usage that counts towards your quota includes bytes
transferred during DNS queries, delivery of parked home
pages, delivery of URL forwarding information, and delivery
of forwarded e-mails. If you do not use WebPark, WebForward
and MailForward, then only DNS queries will count towards
your total usage.
If a single domain goes over 200 MB of transfer during a
year, then it counts as TWO domains, if it goes over 400MB,
then it counts as three, etc. Usually DNS hits are cached,
so even the busiest sites won't go over the 200 MB limit.
200 MB should get you about 1,000,000 DNS queries. A typical
site uses 5 MB per year of DNS bandwidth.
There is no limit to the number of subdomains or records
that your domain may contain.
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What is DNS?
DNS is the technology that ties text-based domain names to
the numeric IP Addresses that are necessary to locate the
domain's server on the net.
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Where can I learn more about DNS?
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What can I control via the Domain Manager?
If you have an ISP that will serve your domain, you can
assign "A" records so that visitors to your web site will
connect to the web server that your ISP has assigned to you,
and "MX" records so people who send you e-mail will connect
to your ISP's mail server.
If you aren't using an ISP for your domain, you can tell our
servers to park your domain on the web with a "Coming Soon!"
introductory web page. Also, you can redirect visitors at
your domain's web page to any other web page of your
choosing, using a WebForward™. You can additionally create
MailForwards™ that will allow you to receive any e-mail
directed at your domain in the mailbox at your ISP, or any
free mailbox, like hotmail, yahoo, etc.
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What is an "A" record?
An "A" record, also called an "address" record, ties a
domain name to an IP address. If there is a server on the
internet that is configured to handle traffic for this
domain, you can enter the name of the domain (like "www.yourdomain.com")
and the IP address of the server (like "209.81.71.236"), and
almost immediately, anyone surfing to that domain connects
to the correct server.
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What is an "MX" record?
"MX" ("Mail eXchanger") records are used to specify what
server on the internet is running e-mail software that is
configured to handle e-mail for your domain. If you want
your ISP to handle routing the e-mail for your domain to
you, you need to specify the domain name or IP address of
your ISP's mail server. In addition, you can specify the
rank of each mail server when you have more than one. Make
sure your ISP knows that you're using their servers to route
your domain's email, or all your e-mail will "return to
sender"!
If you want to use our servers instead of your ISP's, don't
specify any "MX" records, just configure our simple
MailForward service!
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What is a "CNAME" record?
"CNAME" records, short for "Canonical Name", create an alias
from a domain name to another. You could create an alias
from "yahoo.mydomain.com" to "www.yahoo.com", and every
reference to "yahoo.mydomain.com" would go to the other
location, regardless how yahoo changed their IP addresses!
Be careful, however; CNAMEs won't work everywhere. If you
create an MX record, and the name used for the mail server
was defined using a CNAME, you might lose e-mail!
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What is a WebForward™?
A WebForward™ creates a hidden "A" record pointing to our
web server. When our web server gets a request for your site
from a visitor, our web server is designed to forward the
visitor to the URL of your choosing.
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What is a MailForward™?
A MailForward™ creates a hidden "MX" record pointing to our
email server. When we receive an email on your behalf, our
email server is designed to forward the email to the address
of your choosing.
Expert tip: If you use "*" for the new email address (or
just leave it blank), then all email going to your domain
will get sent to the destination address, if it doesn't
match another email address you've explicitly specified.
Also, specifying the same new email address twice with
different destinations will cause a copy of the email to get
sent to both destinations!
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How do I create a default MailForward™ for my domain?
If you use "*" for the new email address (or just leave it
blank), then all email going to your domain will get sent to
the destination address, if it doesn't match another email
address you've explicitly specified.
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How do I MailForward™ the same mailbox to multiple
recipients?
Specifying the same new email address twice with different
destinations will cause a copy of the email to get sent to
both destinations.
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Does namestick.com DNS support round-robin DNS?
We sure do! Simply create 2 "A" records with the same domain
name and different IP addresses, and your visitors will be
load balanced between the two servers.
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Why can't I have the same domain name in multiple record
types?
Because WebForward™ needs a special "A" record to function
correctly. Also, CNAMEs are mutually exclusive of "A"
records, since a domain name can't be both an IP address AND
an alias simultaneously.
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Why can't I delete the "A" record for the root name of my
domain?
All domains must have an "A" record for the root of the
domain. Believe it or not, omitting this "A" record may
prevent some mail servers from delivering your email
correctly. WebParking or WebForwarding the root of your
domain is sufficient, because both of these create hidden
"A" records pointing to our servers.
If you're really looking to delete this record, try changing
the IP address to "0.0.0.0" instead, it's functionally
equivalent.
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How many records can I create for my domain name?
As many as you want!
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