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Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: kimmer on January 18, 2007, 08:37:40 PM
I'm ready to set up my board. I have selected the hosting site. I have selected the board software. Now I'm ready to buy the domain. It's available and I figured I'd use GoDaddy. Here's the hitch:

GoDaddy wants to know where the domain will be parked.

So I go to the hosting site and they want me to either already have the domain, or buy it through them.

Ugh. Catch 22 here.

So how do I do this?

If I buy it and check the "you park it GoDaddy" button, how hard is it to get it over to the hosting site I want to use? Or do I let the hosting site buy it for me? Or do I ... ??? wacko.gif
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: giantmike on January 18, 2007, 09:36:14 PM
Just let GoDaddy park it. Then, when you have the hosting, you can point your domain name to the host's DNS servers. The parking is just used in the meantime to say this domain has been purchased, it doesn't prevent you from pointing the domain to the host in the future.

Hope this helps.
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: Paddy on January 18, 2007, 09:53:52 PM
And there is no charge for the parking, either. smile.gif I've got a parked one mice-elf right now - no time to develop it!

What host did you choose, out of curiosity? I've got several clients with sites hosted by GoDaddy, which has worked out well, but they're not sites with the sort of demands a board would impose or anything that isn't really straightforward. Cheap too. smile.gif For the monster site I maintain - the North Andover school district (and all it's sub domains) we use LunarPages, who provide way more in the way of services and space for a very reasonable $7.95/mo.
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: kimmer on January 18, 2007, 10:00:29 PM
Thanks giantmike and Paddy.

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Then, when you have the hosting, you can point your domain name to the host's DNS servers.

If I get confused again ... I'll be hollering.

This is so very different from the way I set up the domain Sneakers and I have, but then it's been a few years. wink.gif
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: Gregg on January 19, 2007, 07:37:05 AM
GoDaddy - the Lexus of the Internet

Let us do the parking for you! :TM:

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Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: Paddy on January 19, 2007, 09:35:16 AM
Lexus? More like the Honda Civic!!! biggrin.gif
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: kimmer on January 19, 2007, 10:50:49 AM
Parked. Soon I'll be asking the valet for my keys. biggrin.gif
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: Gregg on January 19, 2007, 12:08:38 PM
QUOTE(Paddy @ Jan 19 2007, 09:35 AM) [snapback]116457[/snapback]
Lexus? More like the Honda Civic!!! biggrin.gif


A Civic can park itself??
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 20, 2007, 08:38:38 PM
And, if it's not too late, you might want to reconsider that hosting 'service'. There's too much competition around to not be more flexible. The one our church uses didn't require we use them to buy a domain even several years ago. That's just plain stoopid, IMHO. Not that you asked...blush-anim-cl.gif
Title: Setting up a domain
Post by: kimmer on January 20, 2007, 09:12:18 PM
Too late. I just finished setting everything up. FWIW, I think the choices I've made are the best for me. wink.gif  I think you'd find the hosting service to be decent. But I do appreciate your input.