Joinvps - Advanced Cheap VPS hosting | Domain names Questions

Domain name registration	WWW domains, mail domains, domain names modules
Purchase the services	Use existing domain
Domain registration time	Transfer domain from another registrar
Records on ns1, ns2 servers	DNS records types
Private Name Servers	Domain name renewal
Domain name renew	Third or higher level subdomain
	Change Name server of domain registered via Joinvps.com

Domain name registration

Create it on your server in the “'WWW Domains” module via ISPmanager. Then click on the Domain Name Registration.

Purchase the services

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

Domain registration time

Once your order is processed, some time is required to renew domain zone and DNS cash. The domain will be active in one or two hours.

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

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

Private Name Servers

Private name servers would 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 one is located on your server, the second one on your DNS server. Besides, when using private name servers, domains like name.domain.com are not available.

Domain name renew

When you register a domain at Joinvps.com, your account is set to Auto Renew by default, that means your domain registration will automatically renew using your credit card information on file. You can disable the “Auto Renew” functionf.

WWW domains, mail domains, domain names modules

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

Use existing domain

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

1. You can use our nameservers. 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-ddresses.

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

Transfer 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 or you may receive an error message.

DNS records types

The DNS (Domain Name System) records control the functionality of domain names. Each registered domain name has a DNS record which is made of sub records including MX, A, and CNAME.

A, or address, records describe the IP that a given 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 a given DNS node. An MX-record identifies the name of a mail server - not the IP-address. That's why, it is important that an A-record for the referenced mail server exists (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 given DNS nodes. Certain protocols, such as SPF, use this field to store protocol-specific data. SRV records are used to specify the service location.

Domain name renewal

First log in to the ISPmanager Control Panel where you can view a list of your domain names, then click on the 'Renew domain on master server' button to renew your domain name(s).

Third or higher level subdomain

As long as you have the domain (yourdomain.com) hosted on our servers, you can host other-level domains (anyname.yourdomain.com). The procedure of the subdomans creation is the same - once you've created them in 'WWW domains', the DNS records will be automatically added into 'Domain Names'.