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3 Easy Steps To Launching Your Domain
By admin | June 15, 2008
Hi there I am writing this before I go on holiday to the English Lake District. I am hoping that I will have access to the internet but if not I will have to be quiet for a few days.
I am doing a few posts to give some basic info about getting yourself onto the internet. I have looked at
- getting a product idea
- thinking of a domain name
- looking at hosting and domain names
If you have looked at the domain name sites I mentioned,you may have already got a domain name and you might now have a hosting account. If so,well done. It took me ages to pluck up courage to do it,many months in fact,but if you are getting a hint of what I am about,you will get off and do that now!! Dont waste all the time that I did.Just get on with it. I promise you ,you will feel great once you have taken those few tentative steps. I know there is a bit of money to be spent but its not huge really.
If you haven’t got that far then here are the steps. Log onto the hosting company of your choice. I use Hostgator. You need a hosting company that gives you unlimited domains and unlimited emails. I think its called babycroc on hostgator. Its not the basic package but one up. Have a look at it or Kiosk or one of the many others around and choose which you feel comfortable with.
You do need to register with a new domain unless you have already got one, in which case you need to tick the second box which talks about updating nameservers only (more about that in a minute) then follow the instructions through. Once you have finished registering you will get a welcome email which will amongst other things give you the nameservers details. Keep this in a safe place.
I would recommend that you open a folder for your emails from your hosting company/domain name company. You will at various stages need the nameservers,passwords etc. If you highlight the email title in your inbox and right click on your mouse you will see “copy to folder”.Go into that and click on new folder,name it and save the email into it.You might also want to copy the contents of the email into a word document and keep it separate that way as well.
If you get your domain names through godaddy, or something similar, you will pay a small amount for the name. You will register an account,and get the domain name.Again copy anything you get from that domain company to your folder..believe me its much easier to find later on
Once you have the domain name and account,you go into the manage part of your domain account,click on manage domains,look in the toolbar for nameservers,click on that, then click on custom nameservers. At this stage you will see there are 2 already completed , take those out(you might feel safer copying and saving them somewhere first…just in case.) Then if you go back to your hosting account emails you will see that they have given you those details for the nameservers, put them in the domain account then click save or OK.
That means that you are directing the domain to your hosting account. I think it takes a few hours for it to redirect.
Then you add it as a domain name in your hostIng account. There is something called cpanel which is the bit that controls everything.You will have been given the details of how to get onto it probably in that first email from the hosting company. Go in there,click on add domains (it will be called something like that),then add on domain feature,add on domain maintenance. You will need to think of some passwords at this stage and write them down somewhere so you have them. The host name is the domain name.com,the password is the one you were given originally by the hosting company ,then add on,give your domain a password (save it somewhere) and save.
That actually takes longer to type than actually do it once you have done it a few times.
Hope that helps. I know its boring stuff but it has to be done!
Till next time
Jane
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