Domain Name Services

Domain Protection
With Transfer Lock, and NameSafe products, available through your Domain Account, you can protect yourself from scammers and dubious companies like DROA who try to trick you into transfering your registration to other people or other registrars. Prevent your Domain Name from being transferred to another registrar without your express confirmation from the Domain Account owner via e-mail.

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!)

TransferLock is available FREE to all our customers.

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

NameSafe offers total peace of mind for only $12.00/yr.

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.

Privacy Protection
With Spam Shield, and WHOIS Privacy products, available through your Domain Account, you can hide your personal information from spammers and junk mailers who harvest the WHOIS Databases.

Private Registrations

Did you know that every time you register a domain name, your personal information has to be made available to anyone who wants it?

Its the law. Domain names are valuable commodities, and just like property, all domain name registrations are stored as a matter of public record, in a database called WHOIS. Unfortunately, every day, spammers from around the globe mine data from the WHOIS database to find your personal contact information. They use this information to send you SPAM or simply sell your information to the highest bidders. What information can they get? Give it a try. Click here and enter a domain name in the box provided to find out the name, address, phone number and e-mail address of the person who owns that domain.

Now finally you can do something about it!

In conjunction with our ICANN partner, we are now able to offer customers two levels of privacy protection from WHOIS abuse.

Spam Shield

Spam Shield allows you to keep your email address private in the WHOIS. We will substitute your email address for a random email address (such as yourname54132432@privacypost.com). Emails sent to the PrivacyPost address will be SPAM-filtered and then forwarded to the e-mail address you provide. This allows you to comply with the legal requirements, but will stop domain-related SPAM from ever landing in your inbox!

Unlike competitive products, your new @PrivacyPost e-mail address will automatically change every 10 days for even more protection from those who mine the WHOIS database for e-mail addresses!

Spam Shield is normally available for $2.50/year but we are offering this FREE to all our customers.

WHOIS Privacy

WHOIS privacy is the ultimate in privacy services. Not only does this service include all the benefits of Spam Shield, but it also provides privacy for your mailing address and phone number. With WHOIS Privacy you can:

• Stop domain-related SPAM.
• Stop the selling of your personal information.
• Stop postal junk mail and sales calls.
• You retain complete legal ownership and management of your domain

WHOIS Privacy is available for the low annual fee of $7.00/year.

Adding Spam Shield and WHOIS Privacy to current domains

To add Spam Shield or WHOIS Privacy to domains that you already own, log into your account and 'Add Services' to the domains.

If you have not registered your domain name yet, click here to begin your private domain registrations. Please note that you can add WHOIS Privacy during domain registration by using the "Add Services" step of the checkout process. Spam Shield can only be added after registration.

Please note: Spam-Shield is not available for .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ or .US domains.

Please click here for PrivacyPost Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Domain Syncing
With DomainSync, you can sync the expiration dates of your .COM and .NET domains to an anniversary date of your choosing. The following rules apply:

• The new date can be 1 to 11 months forward from the current expiration date.
• You will be charged a $5.00 service fee plus $2.00 per month of adjustment.
• There is a one month minimum charge for any order.
• There is an 11-month maximum adjustment to an anniversary date.
• You will not be charged for days moved within the new month of expiration, subject to minimum charge rule.
  

  Important Notes

  • Only .COM and .NET domains are eligible for this service. We cannot sync any other extensions at this time.
  • Each domain can be Synced once per calendar year.
  • For this service all sales are final. Once the command is placed the adjustment to the anniversary date is final. It cannot be changed back nor can refunds be issued.
  • Anniversary dates can only be advanced, not set backwards. So, if you want to set the anniversary date for one month prior it will be advanced 11 months forward.

  How do I sync my domains?

  1. Login to your account.
  2. With an empty search field click the "search" button at the top to display a full list of your domains.
  3. Select the domains you wish to Sync and click "manage domains"
  4. Click "Synchronize Domain Expirations"
  5. Select the new Expiration Day and Month, enter your billing information and click "submit order."

URL/Email Forwarding
With URL Forwarding and Email Forwarding services, available through your Domain Account, you can point your domain name to an existing website and/or forward email sent to your Domain Name to your regular Email Account. Ideal for light use customers who are using free (advertising based) web services or ISP provided web space instead of full web hosting.

Email Forwarding

With our E-Mail Forwarding service you can create up to 10 e-mail addresses for your domain, and each one can redirect mail to another valid e-mail address. 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.

At only $8.00/yr, Email Forwarding 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.

NOTE: Email forwarding may not work with all third party email addresses - some do not accept forwarded mail.

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 three types of URL Forwarding:

Masked ($6.00/yr)
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 ($6.00/yr)
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.

Masked with Banner Advertisement (FREE)
This is identical to Masked forwarding, except that there is a small banner ad placed at the bottom of the page.

DNS Management
Web-Based DNS Management allows you to use our nameservers for your domain. Using your Internet browser you can add, remove, and edit Alias records (Host records), MX records (Mail Server records), NS records (Name Server Records), and CNAME records. You have total control over the DNS records for your domain, without the hassle or cost of maintaining your own DNS server.

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

Expired Domains
Everyday, thousands of domain names expire due to non-payment or for other reasons. Check out our list of names that have just expired. View and search the most updated expired domain name list, completely free. Grab yourself the name you thought you couldn't have, or a name that already generates high volumes of traffic! You may just find one that is perfect for your business. Hurry - these names won't last for long!

Bulk Registration
Check the availability and register up to 300 domain names at once with the same registration information. This process is fast and simple.
 

 
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jhWebWorks, LLC
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E-Mail: domains@jhwebworks.com