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MemberManual / GettingDomain

This page explains how to buy yourself a domain name from a registrar, and how to manage it at HCoop.

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Find a registrar

If you want to manage a domain with DomTool, you must first buy a domain from a domain registrar. Search for "domain registrar" via your search engine of choice to see several of the available options.

DNS options

If your registrar provides a web interface for managing the DNS records of your domain (some examples of registrars that do this are [http://godaddy.com/] and [http://gandi.net/]), then you can either use their web interface to fully manage your DNS, or you can use DomTool.

Managing DNS using the registrar's website

If you want to use your registrar's web interface to manage DNS for you domain, you can do that. Just be sure to set the DNS option to noDns in the DomTool configuration file for your domain. Here's an example:

domain "yourdomain" where 
  DNS = noDns
with
  (* Other directives go here. *)
end;

Using Domtool to manage DNS

Registrar pitfalls