How To Register / Resolve Your Domain Name Servers

August 8th, 2008 GoDaddy is a arguably the largest domain name register. Yet it does something which I am not very comfortable with - make profit off your domain names and does that without your explicit permission.

October 6th, 2007 I am changing my domain registrar of one of my domains from Network Solutions to GoDaddy. Changing domain registrar is definitely a non-trivial process for any non-web-savvy person.

October 4th, 2005 India’s global image and reputation is rapidly growing. Top Internet decision makers, PIR, have decided to make India a hub for the technical backend of all new websites, a move that is expected to significantly reduce time to resolve websites.

February 7th, 2009 Setting up a DNS server (with software like Bind) has two major components, the first being setting up the server itself and adding all the records. I will not delve into it as it has been discussed ad-nauseum on the net.

May 15th, 2007 I faced an extremely weird problem of ghost DNS lookups on machines configured as NFS clients. It took quite an effort to solve it.

July 24th, 2006 Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering companies sued by EURid, the non-profit organisation in charge of the European Union's top-level domain. EURid has taken legal action after a review of the system for .eu domains (which went live in April) revealed that only three companies had registered several hundred phantom companies in order to manipulate the system.

October 14th, 2007 Top level domain names like taragana.com or microsoft.com are available for a low price of under 10$ per year. However if you do not want to spend even that amount then you get a top level domain name (like angsuman.co.nr or www.angsuman.co.nr) absolutely free.

July 18th, 2005 From the start of July, PIR (Public Interest Registry) will provide domain-name sellers with a $5 rebate for every domain they sell in Latin America and India. The cost to registrars is $6 per domain per year, and they are usually sold for a few extra dollars to consumers.

April 20th, 2006 Joe Balestrino discusses the value of subdomains. The four key points are: Subdomains are treated as a domain as far as developing a new site is concerned.

March 25th, 2008 Browse to http://your.blog.domain/wp-admin/options.php Replace your.blog.domain with your own blog domain like for example blog.taragana.com for this blog.

July 12th, 2005 In this article I cover the hard questions to ask (checklist) while choosing a shared hosting provider. These questions are gathered over the years and through hard experience with different shared hosting providers.

September 11th, 2006 I am talking about setting up a full featured website for your small business or personal use with your own domain and receiving your emails@your-domain.com address. You can setup emails for yourself and your employees.

March 11th, 2006 I am looking for dedicated web hosting solution. Can you please provide me with some recommendations within manageable cost? I am slowly but surely outgrowing my WestHost VPS.

December 10th, 2008 I was amazed to find this GoDaddy coupon which allowed me to save over 42% for a .net domain registration for 2 years. It works for .net and .org domain registrations and for any number of years.

January 5th, 2007 taragana.com domains (including this site - blog.taragana.com) was using ZoneEdit as DNS Servers. I started using their service while transitioning from VPS hosting to the current dedicated hosting.