Adding Domain Names, What To Do?

[Spinland]

I've had spinland.biz registered and hosted with you guys for several years now (happily, I might add). I recently purchased domains spinland.net and spinland.org through you, but haven't done anything with them yet. What I'd like to do is have anything addressed to those domains forwarded to spinland.biz, instead--for example, my e-mail address might be myaddress (at) spinland (dot) biz, but if someone sent to myaddress (at) spinland (dot) net it would be forwarded to the .biz one. Likewise for web requests. The main desire here is to stop using the .biz domain since I no longer do business through the domain, but I want to leverage the years of use of that domain and not have to send out a bazillion address change requests to people, yet be able to access the same hosting using .net or .org addresses from now on if I want to.

 

Is that a muddle, or am I making sense? I want to start using the new addresses (org and net), but have the old addresses (biz) still be valid.

 

What's the best method for that, do you think? Do I need to buy hosting for the new domains, too, and install some sort of auto-forward software on them, or is there a top-level auto-forward method that just automatically translates one domain to another? I think there, is, from looking at your site info, but I'm not sure of the specifics.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Mark

[TCH-Thomas]

Best and easiest would be to point the new domains to the same nameservers as the biz domain, then visit the helpdesk and ask them to park the new domains on top of the biz.

 

This way you could go into your cpanel and create email addresses for all the domains or just one or...ie how you want.

[Madmanmcp]

You could also do mail forwards on the .biz domain and forward the emails to whichever domain you want.

[Spinland]

Best and easiest would be to point the new domains to the same nameservers as the biz domain, then visit the helpdesk and ask them to park the new domains on top of the biz.

 

This way you could go into your cpanel and create email addresses for all the domains or just one or...ie how you want.

 

Okay, sounds good. So, which service for the new domains should I purchase from you, normal hosting or domain forwarding (or something else)? Who does the pointing of the domains at the same nameservers?

 

Thanks for your help thus far!

Mark

[Spinland]

You could also do mail forwards on the .biz domain and forward the emails to whichever domain you want.

 

Yep, that's a good point. In order to have actual e-mail addresses on the new domains that point elsewhere, though, I expect I'd need to set up web hosting for the new domains (with disk space and cpanel access and all that), no? I got the impression there was a way to point the new domains at the old one without actually hosting any files on the new domain names. Maybe I'm just misinterpreting what "domain name forwarding" means in this context?

[TCH-Thomas]

To do anything of what me and Madmanmcp suggests, you don´t need to purchase anything, it´s already there through a ticket and a little work in your cpanel.

[Spinland]

To do anything of what me and Madmanmcp suggests, you don´t need to purchase anything, it´s already there through a ticket and a little work in your cpanel.

Okay. So that I understand, the only cpanel access I have is to the actual hosting service I have on the spinland.biz domain. To have cpanel access to anything related to the .net or .org domains I assumed I'd have to get web hosting set up for them, too. Maybe I'm just making this way too complicated through lack of savvy. I already do have mail forwarding set up so that e-mail to accounts I created via cpanel that have spinland.biz addresses auto-forward to my ISP's account. Right now, though, if I (for example) try to access www.spinland.net/cpanel I get an error message as the domain name cannot be found.

[TCH-Thomas]

To have cpanel access to anything related to the .net or .org domains I assumed I'd have to get web hosting set up for them

No, just parking the domains on top of each other will do what you want, no need to purchase another hosting account for this.

 

 

Right now, though, if I (for example) try to access www.spinland.net/cpanel I get an error message as the domain name cannot be found.

Yes, since the spinland.net does not resolve to the TCH servers, there are no cpanel for it, so setting the nameservers to point to the same as the biz domain (you do this where you purchased the net domain) and a trip to the helpdesk and ask them to park all domains on each other is what you need to do.

[Spinland]

Okay, this is what I just tried:

 

I went to the domain management screen, and noted that spinland.biz uses name servers ns1 and ns2. Then I noted that .net and .org had servers dns3 and dns4. I went to each of .net and .org in turn and changed the DNS setting to ns1 and ns2. Here's a screen shot of what I did:

 

 

Was that how I was supposed to do it?

[TCH-Thomas]

Looks fine to me (setting them to ns1 and ns2 I mean).

 

Now it´s just a helpdesk ticket and you should be good to go when the domains have resolved.

[Spinland]

Looks fine to me (setting them to ns1 and ns2 I mean).

 

Now it´s just a helpdesk ticket and you should be good to go when the domains have resolved.

 

Awesome, thanks again! I'll contact the help desk right away.