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Best way to buy a domain name that is soon to expire?

I'm looking for some advice about this. There is a domain name that I really want. I just looked up the whois information for the domain and here are a few things that it says: Sponsoring Registrar: 'Check Whois' (GODADDY) (GODADDY) Status:…
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DNS Server usage at Linode.com

Until now i used old fasioned LAMP webhosting for 3 websites. I have 1 domain for each of the websites. Yesterday i bought myself a linode and to my surprise linode has DNS servers available for its users. I did not know this when i bought it. Now,…
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Domain registar no longer exists

I came to this company and they already had a domain registered with SharpRegister.com. That website no longer exists. Our domain is still active and working, but we need to ensure that it continues to work going forward. I've never dealt with…
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Is it valid for a domain to have whois but no NS or A record?

I've been doing system administration for a couple of decades and my understanding has always been that: whois was allocated as part of domain registration (obviously not all TLDs have whois, but for those that do) part of domain registration is…
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How does a foreign company registering my company's domain name effect traffic to my site?

I'd like to keep this strictly technical, don't care too much about whether it's legal or not because I'm assuming a reputable Chinese company wouldn't do anything to undermine the interests of a reputable American company. I'm just wondering what…
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How does Google Domains import your DNS record when you're transferring a domain?

We are transferring a couple of domains to Google Domains to try it out. Before finalizing the transfer, there's a Detect and import my domain's current settings option. Google was able to find all our A, MX, CNAME and TXT records. How is this…
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How to correctly configure nameservers

I have set up custom / private nameservers but I am still receiving an "Unknown host" error $ ping ubookings.co.za ping: cannot resolve ubookings.co.za: Unknown host The whois query shows that the domain is registered with the relevant nameservers…
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How to register a domain when you have no phone number?

Registering a .com requires a phone number for the whois records, but what do you do if you have no phone number? (It's an academic question for me right now, but I did spend a significant amount of my life with internet access but no phone number.…
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Shouldn't the domain registrar run the nameservers?

My website is hosted by HostGator, but the domain registration is with GoDaddy. My understanding is that the domain registrar - in this case GoDaddy - hosts a service that converts the domain names they administer into IP addresses, and that this is…
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Update internal DNS server in my organization

We have our own internal DNS server inside our network on our domain. I just changed the nameservers of a bunch of our domain names through our registrar. Now on my home PC (off the network) the changes were almost immediate. How ever inside our…
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Will international domain names permit "e=mc2.com" as a domain name?

I'm trying to understand the limitations of International Domain names... can someone explain what I can and can't do? Can I register a neat domain name like e=mc2.com? Are any of these symbols permitted: !@#$%^&*()_+?
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What is the best way to register a domain name in China?

What is the best (cost and safety) to register a .cn domain name? We recently received 2 emails from companies (px-vps.org and one other) in China saying that another company was trying to steal/register our .com domain name in china (.cn). They…
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How would I go about getting a domain like lu.re?

(*couldn't decide if this belongs in stackoverflow or here, but landed here. so if this Q belongs elsewhere I'll remove it) How do I go about getting a domain like lu.re? I work for a non-profit and I'm thinking of setting up something like an in…
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Procedure to transfer or push a domain

I've recently moved my domain to a new host, but the domain renewal is managed by an old host. I checked that the domain is registered by Enom. I would like to know about best practices (if they exist) of maintaining domains. Is there any point of…
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I've agreed to buy a domain previously owned, now what?

I wanted to buy some domain already owned by someone else. So I contact it's registrar, negotiated the price and came to a deal. Everything was done via e-mail. Now what? How the actual domain ownership is transfered to me? What information should I…
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