Questions tagged [domain-name]
A domain name is an identification string that defines a group of computers on the internet under the same realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control. Technically, any name registered in DNS is a domain name, however, the term usually refers to a second and top level domain, such as serverfault.com
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Why can't I activate DNSSEC for Domains with a gg ccTLD, despite the fact that there are many domains, which have a valid signature?
This is my first question and hope that I'm in the right community. I bought a gg Domain a while ago and wanted, later needed, DNSSEC. After the purchase I encountered the problem, that I can not ...
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How Internet knows my NS Server IP?
If I own a domain name (for example: mydomain.com), and I setup my own ns server ns1.mydomain.com with a public IP (for example: 1.2.3.4), I registered the ns1.mydomain.com to the registrar's system.
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The correct domain settings in /etc/resolv.conf?
Currently I'm trying to configure settings of internal enterprise domain names for virtual SUSE hosts, which OS is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4.
There are two domain names that the SUSE hosts ...
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Dovecot and Exim config to support domain alias
I use Dovecot and Exim in my mail server, and auth them against MariaDB. The server keep mails for multiply mail domain, and it works this way for years.
Now I need to migrate (rename) one of mail ...
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Domain doesn't work in browser but works on other devices
I registered a domain like example.com and was waiting for it to start resolving.
My PC browser (Chrome) showed the "This site can’t be reached" page, so I thought the domain was still ...
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Using Wireguard VPN for whitelisted public domains only [duplicate]
The current setup: I have a set of private ec2 instances running a few services that I don't want to be accessible publicly and should be accessible only via the Wireguard VPN connection. There is ...
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Configure Website Names on LLighttpd Alpine Linux
It has been a long time since I have done any hosting on Linux, and it that was on CentOS and Apache. I am working on creating some sites on an Alpine server running Lighttpd. Reviewing the config ...
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How to protect email addresses after domain name expires?
I'm thinking of creating a website for a friend. This includes registering a domain name and setting up a couple email addresses (myfriend@myfriend.com, etc.)
If the friend doesn't maintain the domain ...
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dig not returning answer for domain registered with namecheap?
Running dig chimu.sh
Results in the following:
; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> chimu.sh
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: ...
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Redirect domain root to CloudFront with nginx?
Note - I see several other questions asking about redirecting to the root of their S3 static websites, but I didn't see anything about redirecting from the root of a domain name to a CloudFront/S3 ...
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Why will Firefox resolve my domain but Chrome will not
I've been setting up a LAN DNS server using DNSMasq to forward my webserver which at the moment has https and is port-forwarded by my router. I have a domain registered which resolves fine from ...
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Hide your paths/filenames in apache
in Apache 2.4, can I hide all "paths" from the browsers?
if somebody are on https://example.com/users/list.html it would only say https://example.com in the addressbar, and if someone takes ...
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How does browser resolve unregistered domains like .ph or .ws?
If we visit an unregistered domain like http://no-domain-here.ph/ we get a webpage from ph registry
However, this domain doesn't have any ns records associated. How does it work?
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What is the difference between zone and domain and domain name in DNS terminology?
The question is clear: How are DNS zones and DNS domains and DNS domain names different?
Disclaimer: Originally, this question was asked on StackOverflow (link) by someone else, but it got closed as ...
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Hover.com domain cant be reached
I recently bought a .DE domain from Hover.com for use in email addresses (I am using mailbox.org) and also a web service in the future.
The name-servers are set to ns1.hover.com and ns2.hover.com. I ...
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Can a Second-level domain be considered as a Fully-qualified domain?
I often see people talking about FQDNs (fully-qualified domains) to describe subdomains (e.g., networkengineering.stackexchange.com) that are under a second-level domain (e.g., stackexchange.com). I ...
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List of top-level domains (TLDs) that require HTTPS connections, like .dev
I know the .dev top-level domain requires all sites to support only encrypted HTTPS connections, disallowing any HTTP connections.
Are there other such TLDs?
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A CNAME with a wildcard embedded
I'm trying to set up a CNAME DNS entry:
start.*.example.com
That matches the following domain names:
start.a.b.c.example.com
start.a.example.com
Is this possible? My current tests are failing with ...
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How to remove wordpress entirely from my domain name that's hosted on AWS Route 53
I was contacted by an organization to remove wordpress site that's host on Amazon Web Services(AWS) route53,the site is running with an associated EC2 instance, that was created all created by the ...
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Access URL in CompanyA from CompanyB with Two Way Transitive Trust and DNS
I'm trying to access CompanyAWebsite.CompanyA.com from CompanyB without having to type in the FQDN and vise versa.
I thought this was the purpose of CNAMES in DNS but I must be doing something wrong. ...
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How to hide "Alterative names" SSL certificates (in SSLlabs test)?
when running ssllabs.com's test on my website, the output contains "Certificate #2" for (one of the) other domains hosted on the NGINX web server. It is red and not Trusted but I prefer to ...
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IP/DNS inaccessible after IP address changed for Wordpress on Ubuntu VPS
I deployed a website on a VPS with AWS Lightsail. Everything was working fine until I got an issue that made me restart the server. The IP has changed. And now it redirects to the old IP when I get to ...
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Fix wrong typosquatting warning in Google Chrome
My client is running websites on 2 domains names. Let's say companyname.com and company-name.com.
He's clients recently started to receive this kind of warning on Google Chrome:
Sorry I only have it ...
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How to perform DCV for SSL in a secure namespace, using apache and django
I have a django app being served by apache. It was configured and working by connecting to the raw IP of the server, but as the domain is .app I need to configure SSL to get it working with the domain ...
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Block view of other child domains in environment
We have a Windows environment set up in a hub and spoke configuration whereby we have a parent domain as the hub and multiple separate child domains as the spokes.
Each of these spokes are separate ...
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How to forward domain name to blank page?
The domain host automatically sets the DNS nameservers to a parked domain. How can the settings be changed so that entering the URL instead gives a null (404) result or blank page?
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Is email deliverability impossible with a .name email address?
I have a dot name domain. .name is an odd TLD: they originally only offered third level domains, eg first.last.name, so that more people could get their own name. They also included the first@last....
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Configure postfix to forward a single final destination address to an external relay host
I have a Postfix server that manages internal mail, being the final destination for the organization domain. Anyway the external SMTP for the domain is managed by the ISP server. The messages are then ...
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sshd_config: Match for requested domain? [duplicate]
Like a virtual host declaration at a web server, I'd like to control sshd when a connection with a certain domain name gets established. That is, multiple domain names point to the sshd machine, which ...
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Zabbix Server Frontend 80 -> 443
I've a Zabbix installation on my CentOS 7 server and the following happens:
Installed Zabbix Server with Frontend according to Official Install Guide (https://www.zabbix.com/download?zabbix=5.0&...
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Getting ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED after changing nameserver for a domain [duplicate]
Hello everyone I have a website which was hosted in digital ocean server and now i changed it to AWS. After changing the nameserver, when i access the domain i get error saying www.mydomain.com ...
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Azure to Ionos .org domain name transfer
I want to transfer a custom domain I currently have on Azure, to Ionos. But after doing all the steps with the authentication code, I get an error some minutes later by email telling me this:
Dear ...
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How websites discover subdomains using only 'A' DNS records [closed]
Don't 'A' records only return IPv4 addresses?
Why do some websites return subdomains? How do they find those subdomains? I mean, are they doing normal subdomain bruteforcing then resolve each ...
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Does "Registry Domain ID" change on transfer [closed]
Can the Registry Domain ID be used to track if a domain still belongs to the same registrant (except for ownership changes) if transferred to a different registrar?
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Does the Glue record get cached by the Recursive resolver?
Does the IP address of authoritative name server from Glue record get cached by the Recursive resolver?
The name server for a top level domain includes glue along with the delegation for a domain name....
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How is .google a domain extension? [closed]
I just visited blog.google. How does that work? Can organisations register their own domain extensions? If yes, what is the procedure and how expensive is that? If not, how did they achieve the blog ...
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How to responsibly discontinue receiving email at an old Internet domain?
My organization owns Internet domains that we no longer strongly use. Web requests typically simply redirect to our main corporate website, and except possibly as described below, there is no ...
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Since 10 years, did I setup my web server wrong? [closed]
Before story:
We had a vserver with a domain around year 2004-2007 with apache. My father was owner and I was learning little bit from his friend (he was doing that stuff). I learned how to use linux ...
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Domain forwarding and DNS entries
In Google domains I have a main domain at examplesite.com
and a secondary domain example-site.com that is forwarded to main's URL:
Domain (example-site.com) forwards to
https://www.examplesite.com
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Can I create a CSR without a Fully Qualified Domain Name?
My client has an Ubuntu server hosted by Digital Ocean. The server has no domain name, we access it via the public IP address. They want to start using https and provided me with a SSL certificate ...
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Alter incoming URLs for HTTP/HTTPS to force the “www” subdomain in Tomcat 9
I want every URL coming into my Tomcat web server to carry the www subdomain prefix.
How can I have Tomcat alter an incoming URL such as this:
http://Example.com/whatever
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How do domains connect to internet and email (servers) globally?
I know of domain name registrars, that you can use them to acquire your own domain name for a website; but, how do they connect to the internet and email (servers) globally?
I'm not exactly sure how ...
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ICANN Domain Grace Period for expired domains
Recently my domain has expired (2 weeks ago)
According to the ICANN website: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/errp-2013-02-28-en, it says the following:
3.1. With the exception of sponsored ...
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Can the hostname section of a FQDN be something other than the hostname?
I understand that a FQDN is the combination of the domain name and the machine's (host's) name. But can I have a FQDN where what the hostname would be, is something different? Can this cause problems?
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IIS 10 - domain with ß results in 400 "Bad Request - Invalid Hostname"
We try to use hostheader with the german umlaut ß (sharp s, "Eszett") like www.straße123.de in IIS 10 websites.
The hostheader is accepted in IIS, the DNS entry or HOSTS entry on client with punycode ...
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Websites on VPS accessible on mobile data but not on school network (don't think it's DNS) [closed]
The problem
I am currently managing two websites on my VPS. I am using the LAMP stack (Apache web server), with Virtual Hosts configured for both websites. One of those two websites uses SSL.
I did ...
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Wordpress Redirection not working
I have a wordpress website where i applied a redirection with the following plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
I set a few 301 redirections but i get the following error:
This page ...
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Firewall rules for accessing Google-Cloud-Storage from the outside world
I'm deploying an application that relies on GCS at a customer's site.
The customer's firewall allows whitelisting domains for outgoing connections, so I've whitelisted the known GCS domains (storage....
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How to troubleshoot internal DNS resolution (Windows DNS server) pointing to a local server with a static internal IP address
To better explain the set up
I have a Debian server in a private network with a static IP.
There is a windows AD server that resolves DNS for clients internally.
A domain name is already registered ...
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Getting a domain name from a squatter when I have no trademark? [closed]
I am going to start a website for a blog and my profession. I am not a business and have not registered a business. I have no patents or trademarks.
Basically, I'm an individual.
However, my ideal ...
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