Re: FN-FORUM: Acquiring control of a domain

date posted 25th October 2006 15:19

Quoting Paul Cooper [EMAIL REMOVED]

> If you have time I'd be interested to understand how you found all
> that out. Also are there two DNS entries for an A Record then ... one
> for www prefix and one for without the prefix?

There will be two separate A records, one for smartcells.com and one
for www.smartcells.com. And perhaps others for other subdomains.

From the command line you can get all this information using the
"dig" command. Or, alternatively, http://www.dnsstuff.com/ is a good
place to look up information about DNS records (and
http://www.dnsreport.com/ is a good tool for checking potential
problems with the DNS configuration of a domain.

I recommend moving the domain to a registrar like Gandi
(http://gandi.net/) who give you complete control over the DNS record.

Dave...

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