How To Setup Your DNS Server in GoDaddy Domain Registrar

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 6th, 2007 Domain Name Servers resolves domain names to IP addresses. However how can you resolve the domain names of the domain name servers? For examples our domain name servers are at ns1.taragana.com and ns2.taragana.com.

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.

November 1st, 2008 This GoDaddy coupon code worked for me: gdp1018aa. I renewed 1 domain for 2 years at the total cost of $17.50, a discount of $4.28.

June 30th, 2007 A UAE based site (Souq.com) is auctioning blank sheets of original watermarked 5 Rs Indian notes. The current bid is 79 AED.

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.

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.

October 23rd, 2007 Postfix is an excellent and powerful mail transfer agent (MTA) like sendmail. You can configure postfix to send outbound mails directly (default) or relay it to another MTA, which could be postfix or sendmail.

November 30th, 2005 As you probably know XmlHttpRequest only works if the request is made to the same web server from which the page was fetched (same origin). Here is a way to communicate across sub-domains using XmlHttpRequest without resorting to reverse proxying.

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.

December 15th, 2007 Our local setup consists of a single ntp server which synchronizes time from asia pool of ntp.org ([0-2].asia.pool.ntp.org) and several ntp servers in the intranet which synchronizes from the above server. This setup ensures identical clock on all the machines on the intranet as well as reduces load on ntp.org servers.

January 15th, 2007 I wanted a seamless procedure to update web sites and web applications without compromising security. The development server is under a firewall and so is the production server.

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.

February 10th, 2005 I had tried several web hosting providers before settling down. Recently I was checking to see if something better have come up.