Help with website setup please
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I have purchased a domain name (nubbin.org.uk) from Nominet.org.uk, and some cheap webspace hosting from www.webhostingbuzz.com. They have sent me an e-mail saying I need to change my 'nameserver' to ones they provide. I am not sure how to do this, where to go to sort it out, etc. Can anyone show me how I go about doing this? An offline e-mail would be best. Cheers!
Nominet should have given you some details about how to go about (re)delegating your domain to your chosen hosting people.
Delegation is the act of giving someone control over what your domain "contains": i.e. something saying www.yourdomain goes here, e-mail for yourdomain goes there, and so on and so forth.
Question: did you register the domain *directly* with Nominet themselves? If so, this is (or used to be) the harder option. If you registered it through someone else, hopefully a UK ISP or hosting firm, it's easier.
Lettuce know which way you did it...
And I know it's potentially no use now, but useful information for everyone else is that Nominet charge direct registrants the earth, and do f*** all for it. Hosting or domain registration companies charge less and are usually more functional.
Delegation is the act of giving someone control over what your domain "contains": i.e. something saying www.yourdomain goes here, e-mail for yourdomain goes there, and so on and so forth.
Question: did you register the domain *directly* with Nominet themselves? If so, this is (or used to be) the harder option. If you registered it through someone else, hopefully a UK ISP or hosting firm, it's easier.
Lettuce know which way you did it...
And I know it's potentially no use now, but useful information for everyone else is that Nominet charge direct registrants the earth, and do f*** all for it. Hosting or domain registration companies charge less and are usually more functional.
robp said:
I dont understand all this hosting stuff.
Suppose I want a personal webpage.
Do I buy a domain name then point the domain name at the free NTL webspace i've got? Then buy a web design package and upload it to the webspace?
Is that it in a nutshell?!
Three possible ways of linking a domain name to a website, namely forwarding, pointing and transferring.
Forwarding is simply instructing the domain name to redirect to your website. You can do this two ways: either framed forwarding (your domain name appears in the address bar of the browser, but your site is placed inside a framed page, one frame of which is invisible; OR unframed forwarding whereby your actual web address will be shown (http://myfreewebhost.com/users/mysitename)- not very professional!
Pointing requires you to contact the people who originally hosted (registered) your domain name and ask them to change the nameservers from theirs to those of your webhosts. (Nameservers are simply the computers which store your domain name details). Depending on who you originally registered your domain with, you may be able to do this easily yourself from a control panel (123reg.co.uk have this facility, and they're a cheap way of registering a domain).
Transferring requires more effort, and involves changing the IPS TAGS from one company to another. It is also a highly tortuous procedure for US domains (.com, .org, .net etc.) In most cases, this is an unnecessarily complicated manoevre, since apart from anything else you then have to remember a whole new set of contact details.
If you have a straightforward, good old .co.uk domain, I'd recommend pointing (changing nameservers) as the best way of going about it.
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