Creating
/ Transfering Domains
To add a new domain name to your account:
- Click the Domains icon on your control panel.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Add
icon.
- Choose the type of domain you want to register.
You can choose out of the following options:
Transferring Existing
Domains or Registering Nonstandard Domains
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Following the registration you will get an e-mail notification
with the information to send to your domain name registration company.
They will make appropriate changes on the root DNS servers, and
within a couple of days your domain will be accessible at the new
IP address. In the meantime, your site will be available by the
instant domain alias.
Domain registration is a standard procedure. First, you purchase
a domain name from a domain registration company. Second,
you register this domain name with your web-hosting provider
and get your new nameserver information. Third, you send this
nameserver information to your domain registration company,
where it is set as the nameserver on file for your domain
name. It is only then that your site becomes available to
all Internet community. This is true both of standard and
nonstandard domains. In case of standard domain names.
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Creating
Domains Based on Your Provider's Domain Names (Third Level
Domains)
Third level domains are registered on your provider's DNS
server. You don't need to register a third level domain with
a domain registration company. If you choose to create a third
level domain, it will contain your provider's domain name.
E.g. if your provider's domain name is besthosting.com,
and the third level domain you are registering is mythirdlevel,
the fully qualified domain name would be mythirdlevel.brandblast.com.
Third level domain registration is available only if it is allowed
under the selected plan. Functionally, third level domains have
same features as second level domains.
To register a third level domain name, enter the desired domain
name in the Domain name field. From the box on the right,
select provider's domain name where you would like to create the
third level domain:
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Hosting
Sites Without Domain Names
You can also host sites without domain names (the so-called stop-gap
domains). When you create a stopgap domain, you get no DNS zone,
and you cannot use e-mail service. However, you will be able to
access and manage your site using the instant domain alias you get
at signup.
Stopgap domains support web site management and FTP services. Also,
you can have IP-only access if you get a dedicated IP.
To create a stopgap domain, just click the Submit button
in the Stopgap domain registration form:
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Parking
External Domains
This feature allows you to use H-Sphere DNS server to map IPs to
domain names serviced and hosted on other servers (not those of
H-Sphere). In this case, a DNS zone is created with a custom DNS
A record for the domain name and its IP is entered in the form below:
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Creating
Accounts Without Domains
At signup, you can create an account without any domain. If you
choose this option, your account won't have the following:
- Disk space and account on the web server
- FTP
- DNS zone
- Virtual and Anonymous FTP
- Mail service
- ODBC support
You can create a domain to this account later in the future.
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