Internet Marketing: Putting Your Internet
Marketing Site Online Submitted By: Tellman H. Knudson This third
in a series of "Getting Started with Internet Marketing"
articles is about pointing your new web host (in article 2) to
your new domain that you purchased in article 1. This linking
is important because if you don't do it, you'll never see your
Internet marketing site online. Period. But no problem! We're
going to fix that right now.A server (or name server or domain
name server or DNS) is a computer that translates domain names
into IP or Internet protocol addresses. These are expressed in
a series of numbers
which other servers will understand. It
makes things much simpler for us because instead of needing to
type in series of numbers we can just type in coolwebsite.com
and everything works.But we have to tell servers where to find
our websites, and because you just purchased your domain, you
probably still have the registrar's name server (or nameserver)
addresses, and in order for your website to be seen, you'll have
to change them over to your hosting account. This won't be the
case if you've purchased a hosting account where you got a free
domain or two for perks of joining, but never base your hosting
decision on that alone.
(See article 2 in the Getting Started with
Internet Marketing" series for more buying tips.)For this
exercise, let's say you're going to have a separate hosting account.
You'll need to "point" your domain to your host's name
servers so that when someone types in your domain, they'll land
at your web site. So, at your domain registrar's site, navigate
to where the name servers are located. It may just say "DNS."
These are usually located near your domain
listing or accessible through a link nearby your domains.What
you're going to find are two addresses and they'll look something
like this: "ns1.yourregistrar.com" and "ns2.yourregistrar.com."
Both of those addresses will have to be changed. Now, open a new
tab or window and go to your hosting account. Look for "name
servers," "nameservers, " or "DNS." Because
these are sometimes hard to find, you may want to search for one
of those terms.
When you find the hosting company's name server addresses, write
them down or select and copy. Then, go to your domain registrar's
tab or window and plug the new addresses in. That's it! You're
done!Though the Internet has become very fast and it can take
only minutes to have these addresses changed, it can sometimes
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