Additional Domain Name

JLYM Registrations offers the following additional Domain Name services to our clients. Most can be added to a Domain Name at time of order, and all of them can be added to a Domain Name after registration by logging into your Domain Account. Please note that for the URL and Email Forwarding services to work, your Domain Name must be parked with us.

URL Forwarding
Email Forwarding
TransferLock
NameSafe
DNS Management
 

URL Forwarding

Use URL Forwarding (also known as Web Site Forwarding or Domain Pointing) to point your Domain Name to an existing website. This service is perfect for people who:

Are using ISP web space and want to give their visitors an easy to remember Domain Name
Want to increase web traffic by pointing several names to one website
Want to illustrate a particular product or page of their site by pointing a related Domain Name to this section of their site.

We offer two main types of URL Forwarding: Masked With Masked forwarding, your Domain Name remains in the address bar of the visitors web browser. Our fully featured forwarding service allows you to add meta information, such as Title, Description and Keywords, and choose to pass any subdirectories keyed by the visitor or not. UnMasked Unmasked forwarding simply forwards the visitor to the existing website URL, and displays it in the visitors web browser. This is particularly useful for people who are registering multiple versions of their name (misspellings, other variations etc) but want all visitors to go the to the main address.

Please note that URL Forwarding is not required if you are ordering full web hosting for your domain name.

Our URL Forwarding service is perfect for people who want to redirect their domain to another URL that is too long or too hard to remember. You can use our URL Forwarding services to forward your domain to any URL or IP address that you would like.

You can direct your domain to an existing Web site or IP address using URL forwarding. Please follow these instructions:

1. Log into your account.
2. Click Domain List.
3. Click on the domain that you would like to forward.
4. Click URL Forwarding.
5. Read the directions and enter the URL or IP to which you would like your domain forwarded.

Don't forget the http://www. when entering your URL. Within 24 hours, your domain will be pointed to your Web site.

NOTE: ns1.nameresolve.com, ns2.nameresolve.com, ns3.nameresolve.com, and ns4.nameresolve.com must be entered as your name servers in order for the forwarding to work.

Email Forwarding

Imagine being able to give your e-mail address as 'yourname@yourdomain.com' rather than 'yourname@yourdomain23.freeserve.com'!

You can also add a 'catch all' address which will redirect mail sent to any unspecified e-mail addresses at your domain.

This is a very cost effective alternative for customers who want to use their Domain Name for email, but who are not ready to purchase full web hosting.

 

Please note that URL Forwarding is not required if you are ordering full web hosting for your domain name. Also, Email forwarding may not work with all third party email addresses - some do not accept forwarded mail.

To sign up for e-mail forwarding follow these instructions:

1. Log into your account.
2. Click on the "Domain List" link.
3. Click on the name of the domain.
4. Click on the "E-mail Forwarding" link.
- Then all you have to do is enter you re the e-mail address that forwarding and the destination e-mail address.
- If you are not parked on our name servers, you will have to contact your Web host and tell them to create an MX Record that points to fwd.yourwebhost.com.
- You may forward up to 10 addresses, including a catch-all address, for your domain.
 

TransferLock

Prevents your Domain Name being transferred to another registrar without your express confirmation from the Domain Account owner via e-mail. This service provides protection from:

Dubious Companies and Domain Name scammers who try to trick you into moving to their (invariably more expensive) registry
Unauthorised transfers made by your employees (or children!)
 

NameSafe

The ultimate in Domain Name security, NameSafe prevents ALL unauthorised changes from being made to your domain name without authorisation from the account owner through e-mail. NameSafe prevents registrar transfers, just like TransferLock, and also prevents the following :

account ownership updates
name server updates
contact updates
moving domains between accounts
 

Important: To prevent being locked out yourself, be sure that your account email address is valid and that you have set a secret question on your account before enabling NameSafe for your domains.

What is DNS Management?

DNS Management allows you to create DNS records for your domain, like A records, MX records, NS, and CNAME records, without needing your own nameserver. For a yearly fee you can use our nameservers, which are updated hourly, to add and remove DNS records for your domain. DNS stands for Domain Name Services and is how computers find other computers on the Internet. Computers on the Internet have unique IP addresses associated with each computer. To make finding computers easier for humans DNS allows you to create an easy to remember name such as mail.yourname.com and associate it with a computer's IP Address. By adding an Alias record to a DNS server for your domain and telling it that mail.yourname.com is the computer with an IP Address of 216.34.43.56 you allow anyone on the Internet to find your computer by using the name mail.yourname.com.

What kind of records do I need to create?

Alias Record: A unique Alias Record should be created for each physical host in your domain that you desire to address using a DNS name such as mycomputer.mydomain.com. Enter a hostname for your computer and the IP address of a computer that you want that name to point towards. Technical Notes: An Alias is the same as a BIND "A" Record. You may add multiple Alias's with the same hostname but different IP's to provide systems redundancy if you have multiple computers providing the same services.

NS Record: A Nameserver Record specifies a host to act as a Nameserver for a domain. When you first log in to the DNS Management console our nameservers are set to act as the nameserver for your domain. The records for our nameservers appear in red in the Management Console. The hostname of a Nameserver must be an Alias. Do not use a CNAME.

MX Record: A Mailserver Record specifies a host to receive mail for your domain. i.e. Mail sent to yourdomain.com gets delivered to the host mail.yourdomain. The hostname of a Mailserver must be an Alias Record. Do not use a CNAME.

CNAME Record: A CNAME Record creates a pointer from a name to an alias name. i.e. You may wish to have the name ftp.yourname.com point to webserver.yourname.com. To do this create a CNAME record from ftp to webserver.yourname.com. This allows you to refer to already-named machines without having to worry about IP addresses.


What kind of records should I create?

Basic Setup: For a simple single machine webserver/ftpserver setup you should create an Alias record with the IP address of your single machine and a descriptive name as the hostname. Ex. webserver.yourdomain.com IP Address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. You can then create several CNAME entries that point to your single machine, such as www.yourdomain.com CNAME webserver.yourdomain.com and ftp.yourdomain.com CNAME webserver.yourdomain.com. People can now access your machine at either www.yourdomain.com or ftp.yourdomain.com

Basic +Mail: In addition to adding the ALIAS and CNAME records above you will need to add an MX record to tell hosts where to send mail for your domain. To add mail delivery to the webserver.yourdomain.com machine select "Add MX" from the console and type "webserver.yourdomain.com" into the Mail Server textbox. Mail for the domain in the MX domain box will now be delivered to the Mailserver machine.

Basic +MX+NS: In addition to the above two steps adding an NS record will allow you to either provide DNS for your root domain, or a delegated subdomain. Delegating a subdomain, such as subdomin.geminidns.com means that all DNS for that subdomain will be handled by the server specified in the Name Server text box.

Other Records: You should not use a CNAME pointer as either a Mail Server or Name Server, for example, in the above scenarios don't use ftp.yourdomain.com as the Mail Server in an MX record. If you would like to use webserver.yourdomain.com as the Mail Server but with a name like mail.yourdomain.com create an A, or Alias record that points mail.yourdomain.com to the correct IP address for webserver.yourdomain.com.

Why is the top record Red?

The "red record" is one of the primary nameservers for your domain. It is our nameserver where your DNS records for your domain reside. If you delete both of these records from your domain then you will no longer have DNS service through the Web-based DNS Management Console. You will have to point your domain to new DNS servers using the domain management pages.

IMPORTANT: In order for this service to function properly, your domain needs to be pointed to our name servers: NS1.NAMERESOLVE.COM
NS2.NAMERESOLVE.COM
NS3.NAMERESOLVE.COM
NS4.NAMERESOLVE.COM
 

How do I sign up for and set up DNS Management?

1. Log into your account.
2. Click on "Domain list".
3. Click on the domain you would like to manage.
4. Click on "DNS Management".
5. Fill out the credit card information.
6. Create DNS Records for your domain.

The easiest way to set up your DNS information is like this.

Address Record - also known as A Record

domain name.com ----------> IP Address
Domain name points to your IP address

Then you need to create C-Names

www.domainname.com ---------> domain name.com
If someone types in www.domainname.com it will point to domainname.com which will then point to your IP address.

You can also create other CNames like
ftp.domainname.com ---------> domainname.com