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Registering a domain name	WWW domains, mail domains, domain names modules
Purchasing the services	Using an existing domain
Domain registration time	Transferring a domain from another registrar
Records on ns1, ns2 servers	DNS records types
Private Name Servers	Subdomain of the third and higher level
Renewing a domain name	Changing a Name server of the domain registered through Joinvps.com
ISPmanager domain user (video)	ISPmanager domain root (video)

Registering a domain name

In ISPmanager go to the “'WWW Domains” module and create a domain on your server. Then click "Domain Name Registration".

Purchasing the services

Unlike hosting services, you should pay the whole year for the domain name service, that is why you need to have sufficient funds on your personal account.

Domain registration time

Once your order is processed, some time is required to renew a domain zone and DNS cash. The domain will be active within several hours.

Records on ns1.joinvps.com, ns2.joinvps.com servers

ISPmanager simplifies adding any number of master or slave (secondary) DNS domains to the server. It can chain to another instantiation of itself on another server, so after adding the master records, it can automatically add slave records.

Private Name Servers

Private name servers will be ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com. For this service you are given your own IP address for the second server (ns2), the first IP address is located on your server, the second one on your DNS server. When using private name servers, domains such as name.domain.com are not available.

Renewing a domain name

You can do it in two ways. First, when you register a domain at Joinvps.com, your account is set to "Auto Renew" by default, that means your domain will be automatically renewed using your credit card information on file. You can disable the “Auto Renew” function.

Second, log in to the ISPmanager control panel to view a list of your domain names, then click the "Renew domain" icon to renew your domain name(s).

WWW domains, mail domains, domain names modules

A WWW domain is created on the server, when creating your account. Your domain is entered into our DNS. An email domain is created on the Mail server. When you add records into 'WWW domains', ISPmanager automatically creates the records into "Domain names".

Using an existing domain

There are two ways to host your domain at Joinvps.com:

1. You can use our name servers. Submit a Domain Name System (DNS) modification request to the company that registered your domain name and provide Joinvps's Primary and Secondary Name Server information (ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com). If you use the 'Private Name Servers' service, provide your registrar with your servers information (ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com) and their IP addresses.

2. If you've selected a third-party DNS server and do not want to host your domain at our name servers, you can add the appropriate records into your DNS pointing to your web-server IP.

Transferring a domain from another registrar

When transferring a .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, or .us domain to Joinvps.com, customer will need to contact the registrar for a change of ownership and confirm the transfer with a confirmation code. This code is generated by the system and emailed within approximately 24 hours of the transfer request submission to the administrative contact on the domain registration information (as per WHOIS data). The confirmation code is generally a six or seven digit number - make sure that you have not added any spaces when submitting the code, otherwise you may receive an error message.

DNS records types

The DNS (Domain Name System) records manage the functionality of domain names. Each registered domain name has a DNS record that consists of sub records including MX, A, and CNAME.

A, or address, records describe the IP that this DNS node has. CNAME records are "canonical name" records. DNS allows machines to have true (canonical) name, as well as an unlimited number of aliases.

MX, or mail exchange, records describe the machines to contact in order to send mail to this DNS node. An MX-record identifies not an IP address, but the name of a mail server. That's why, the A-record for the referenced mail server must exist (not necessarily on your server, but wherever it belongs), otherwise there won't be any way to find this mail server and communicate with it.

TXT, or text, records are arbitrary text strings which can be attached to this DNS nodes. Certain protocols, such as SPF, use this field to store protocol specific data. SRV records are used to specify the service location.

Subdomain of the third and higher level

As long as you have the domain (yourdomain.com) hosted on our servers, you can host other-level domains (anyname.yourdomain.com). Follow the same procedure to create a subdomain - once you've added it in the 'WWW domains' module, the DNS records will be automatically added into the 'Domain Names' module.