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NameStick Setup Instructions
Important information regarding your domain name you purchased from NameStick.com (We highly recommend bookmarking this page).
Important Note -- Please remember that new domains will take up to 72 hours to become available across the Internet AFTER you set up the domain forwarding.
Use these links to go straight to the area you have questions about.
Or, if you a brand new customer, this entire page will walk you through, step-by-step, setting up and using your NameStick domain.
- Setting up or updating domain forwarding.
- Setting up a sub-domain.
- Setting up or changing meta and title tags.
- Setting up or updating email forwarding.
- Changing Contact information.
- If you are transferring your domain, please also refer to the Transfer FAQ.
- If you can not find what you are looking for, then we have an extensive Frequently Asked Questions section that honestly answers 95% of the questions we receive so you can quickly find the answers you need.
Congratulations,
Your domain name is now enabled with our industry-breakthrough NameStick forwarding service - giving you advanced domain forwarding and email forwarding service without the expensive costs normally associated with custom programming and hosting services.
Isn't it exciting!?!
Below are the Set Up Instructions to start using your domain with NameStick service. Please remember that new domains will take up to 72 hours to become available across the Internet. And new accounts will take 1-2 hours to become live and available for you to login.
For your records, your credit card was charged for the registration of the domain
This charge will appear on your statement as:
NameStick.com
Please remember this while reviewing your statement.
Using our EZManager interface, you can easily manage both your NameStick service and the contact information for your domain name. Note: new accounts will take 1-2 hours to become live and available for you to login.
Go to this webpage:
https://www.namestick.com/cgi-bin/2.41/manage.cgi
Login with your domain name (minus the www.)
And then enter the UserName and Password you entered while registering for this domain. We recommend you write this information down right now so you do not forget it. If you have forgotten your login info, please retrieve it using the password retrieval tool at the bottom of the page.
Once you are logged in you will see the main menu for managing the CONTACT information for your domain name.
Click on the hyperlinked text "NameStick DNS" located in the top navigation bar. This is the area to manage the FORWARDING service of your domain.
When you are in this NameStick Forwarding (DNS) administration area, there only 2 items you will ever need or want to change. They are:
Web Forwards
and
Mail Forwards
How to set up your Domain (and sub-domain) NameStick Forwarding Service.
First log into the
EZ Manager then click on the "NameStick DNS" link this is
the main administration panel to make all changes to your domain and
email forwarding.
Now click on "Web Forwards".
Note: Frequently Asked Questions links specific to the page you are on are provided at the bottom of all pages.
1) Do NOT type anything in the box where it says "New Domain"
2) In the white box under "Destination", enter the exact location (full website address) you want your new domain to forward to. Please be sure to include the http:// for the website address or else it will not work correctly.
3) Click the white box under "Cloaked" so that a check mark appears in it. This keeps your domain name in the address bar instead of showing the affiliate or website link it is being forwarded to. If only want to use regular, basic forwarding, then leave this box unchecked.
4) Click the button labeled "Add New"
(Do not worry about the rest of this page right now)
5) On the new page that appears, click on the top box marked "Yes"
To Exit the EZ Manager: In the top left corner, click on "Profile", then click on "Logout".
Sub-Domains -- After
first setting up domain forwarding for your domain as described
below, you can set up "sub-domain forwarding. To do this just go to
the Web Forwards page and in the "New Domain" box enter the
sub-domain you want, then follow steps 2 through 5 above.
It is important that you first setup your main domain forwarding for both 'yourdomain.com' and .www.yourdomain.com'.
Creating and changing Title and Meta Tags.
NOTE: Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, and Step 4 may not appear in your management area until after the forwarding (Steps 1-5) has spread across the Internet (normally within 72 hours). If you do not see the Title, Keywords, and Description fields it now, log in and check at a later time.
1) On the "Web Forwards" page, type
into the white box that appears below "Title of Cloaked Pages" the
title that you wish to be displayed in the browser when someone goes
to your new domain name.
For example, we use the following title for http://www.crunchyourdebts.com/
Erase Your Debts Fast!
2) Under "Meta Keywords" enter at least 5 words (or more) that describe or relate to your business, site, industry or whatever you are doing. Be sure to separate each word by a comma. You may enter up to to 150 characters (approximately 25 words) or as few as you like, but we suggest using at least 5.
Keywords do not need to be in any particular order of importance. Meta keywords are used by search engines to index your site, so people can find your site when they enter those keywords.
For example, we use the following keywords for http://www.crunchyourdebts.com/
debt, credit, credit card
3) Under "Meta Description" enter a short one sentence description of why someone should visit your site.
Meta description tags are used by search engines to show the user a one-line description of what your site contains.
For Example, we use the following Meta Description at http://www.crunchyourdebts.com/
Eliminate your debts fast and simple with this step by step formula.
4) Click "Change Meta Tags" and then on the new page click "Yes" and your Title and Meta tags will be added to your domain and your sub-domains.
To Exit the EZ Manager: In the top left corner, click on "Profile", then click on "Logout".
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have now created the website forwarding for your new domain. It will be live across the internet within the next 72 hours.
How to set up your email forwarding
NameStick offers Email Forwarding. This is different from POP email or Webmail. With Email forwarding you can set up email addresses at your domain to forward to an email address you already have and use.
1) Once logged in as described above, click on the "Mail Forward" link near the top of the page.
2) Leave the field blank in the white box under "New Email"
3) Enter your current email address in the white box under "Destination"
4) Click the button marked "Add New"
5) Click the "Yes" button
Now ANY email that is sent to any username at your new domain will be automatically forwarded to your existing email address. For example, email sent to info@domainname.com or yourfirstname@domainname.com , etc will all go to the email address you entered above.
To setup a specific email forward, follow the above steps, except in Step 2, enter the specific email forward you want to use.
To Exit the EZ Manager: In the top left corner, click on "Profile", then click on "Logout".
If you have any questions, FIRST check out the FAQ links given on
the page you have questions about. NEXT check out our general FAQ
page at:
http://www.namestick.com/faq.html
Then, if you still can not find an answer go to our support/contact
page at:
http://www.namestick.com/contact.html
Thank you,
Kevin Wilke and Matt Gill
Co-Founders, NameStick.com
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