Anyone have any domain address suggestions/advice?

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Mon May 23, 2005 6:14 pm

Since the Toonspace train has officially pulled into the station, I'm probably going to break down and register a internet domain-name forwarding service for my comic. (I may not be using the proper terminology here. I mean having a surfer's request for "mansionofe.com" automagically transfer to "mansionofe.toonspace.com", or whatever address I choose.) So, for me and any other clueless newbies out there...

Those of you who have already taken the plunge in this area, can you offer any recommendations as far as which hosting service to use or avoid? I search Google, and every major site like godaddy.com seems to be split just about 50/50 positive/negative in regards to customer testimonials. All I want is to redirect the URL; I don't need webspace or extra e-mail addresses. Cheap would be nice.

And what exactly can we do/should we do on the Keenspace... Toonspace.. side of things? Do we need to beg Kasai (or someone else) to do something complicated and techinal for a domain redirect to work? How do we go about "parking" a domain name here? Anyone?

Axonite · Post by **Axonite** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:22 pm

I registered stationv3.com with GoDaddy - haven't had any problems. (And like you, all I wanted was the address - not the addresses or the hosting) At first I just set it up to forward to stationv3.keenspace.com, but eventually I set the nameservers to ns3 and ns4.keenspace.com, and contacted Kisai.

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:52 pm

[geoduck] wrote:And what exactly can we do/should we do on the Keenspace... Toonspace.. side of things? Do we need to beg Kasai (or someone else) to do something complicated and techinal for a domain redirect to work? How do we go about "parking" a domain name here? Anyone?

Godaddy's like $8/year, and we'll park it.

Steverules · Post by **Steverules** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:03 pm

I'd love to get my own domain if it meant nothing other than logging into another ftp site (mysite.com). That's what's kept me from going solo. I've got a friend who hosts websites and he's offered free server space but I like the keen update feature among other things. StrRedWolf, how painless would it be to set it up? Would I just move everything (templates, images, etc.) to the new site or could I keep everything where it's at? I'm not sure how all that works.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:54 pm

I don't know anything about getting domain names, redirecting, or how to do things on any server other than keen, um... toonspace.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:18 pm

Set it up with a domain name registrar that allows you to set up your nameservers. GoDaddy works, so use it, it's cheap.

In the GoDaddy menu, set your nameservers to ns3.keenspace.com and ns4.keenspace.com . You'll need to change that later when they set up toonspace nameservers.

Talk to Kisai or Kelly about entering you in the nameservers.

You can now refer to your comic as yourdomain.com, yourusername.keenspace.com, or yourusername.toonspace.com and it will connect people to your CURRENT SITE exactly as it is now. You don't have to move any files or Anything. And all of those will resolve to yourdomain.com. In other words, people will see "mansionofe.com" even if they went to "mansionofe.keenspace.com", but all the stuff is still right where you left it on keenspace. You can FTP to whichever name, and fine the stuff where you left it.

TheBladeRoden2 · Post by **TheBladeRoden2** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:59 pm

Could I do a subsite thing like where http://www.thebladeroden.com/characters would redirect to risen.toonspace.com/characters?

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:36 pm

I use GoDaddy! They're cheap, and I remember it being easy to redirect to my ol' Keenspace account using their service.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:42 pm

Roden,

Yes, if I understand the question. That's what it does / how it works.

If you mean thebladeroden.com pointing to a different server than thebladeroden.com/characters.html , then no.

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:34 am

I'm all a-go for the daddy, too.

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:51 am

I use mydomain.com, but I have no idea how other registars are so...
I had a good experience with them so far, it costs about 8 or maybe 8.50 a year for the domain name.

When I was on keenspace, I had two choices for redirection:
1. My domain, http://www.thenoobcomic.com, would redirect to my keenspace page, and once there people would see the url thenoob.keenspace.com. If they navigated from the main page, they'd see the url of that page, e.g. thenoob.keenspace.com/archives.html.

2. I could mask the keenspace url, so that someone clicking a link http://www.thenoobcomic.com would go to the keenspace page, but keep seeing the url http://www.thenoobcomic.com. The downside of this second solution was that if they moved to a different page, the url would still be masked as http://www.thenoobcomic.com.

After trying both, I went for (1), because I wanted to make sure that it was easy for people to link specific pages of the strip (lots of my referrals are something like "hey guys, check strip number nn".

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:07 am

That's the other way. That's redirect, or framing. Parking is better, because then every page is shown as being the domain you bought, plus its path. Like theelven.com/archives.html etc.

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:41 am

Risky wrote:That's the other way. That's redirect, or framing. Parking is better, because then every page is shown as being the domain you bought, plus its path. Like theelven.com/archives.html etc.

I wish I had known about it!

Sixguys · Post by **Sixguys** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:43 am

I'm in the same boat: 6GUYS.com is using forwarding (redirecting) from GoDaddy; I think I'll park it with 'Space once we all figure out that name issue and the servers are ready.

About redirect: It works similar to parked. If I type "6guys.com/archive.html", it will access the page "sixguys.keenspace.com/archive.html" Sometimes an extra "/" appears in the middle; don't worry. If you MASK the redirect, this does not work.

(GoDaddy also lets you do sub-domains: "archive.6guys.com" --> "sixguys.keenspace.com/archive.html" is possible, although I haven't done this one yet. This ONLY works on redirects; if you park it with 'Space, you lose that control.)

The BEST thing about GoDaddy is that for an extra $6/year they give you a PRIVATE registration (for most domains, like .com -- .us is no longer private). You can register without having personal information in the WHOIS record available to every spammer, pervert and psycho on the Net. Worth it for personal stuff like this; for a business, a standard public domain is actually better -- you WANT to be contacted.

An aside: I also maintain another domain for my personal site (forwarded to a Geocities account) and a third domain with a GoDaddy hosting package for our family's hardware store. I'm a true webmaster! If all else fails, I'll buy more hosting and serve all my sites myself via 'Daddy. The service is excellent.

(No, I did not get paid for this.)

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:47 am

You guys are lucky, you don't know what I had to go through to buy a national domain.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Tue May 24, 2005 5:00 am

http://www.roleofthedie.com

Booyah. Many thanks to Sir Axonite for suggesting Go Daddy.

I'm just redirecting for right now . . . now I have to wonder, would it be best to set up the nameservers now, or wait until after the name change is fully in effect?

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue May 24, 2005 5:20 am

RPin wrote:You guys are lucky, you don't know what I had to go through to buy a national domain.

Virgin sacrifices?

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:19 pm

Thanks for the advice and info, everyone. I bit the bullet and signed up with Godaddy. It took a while to adjust all the controls to the proper configuration, but it appears to be working. I've changed the address in my sig; lemme know if it works for other folks!

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:43 pm

[geoduck] wrote:Thanks for the advice and info, everyone. I bit the bullet and signed up with Godaddy. It took a while to adjust all the controls to the proper configuration, but it appears to be working. I've changed the address in my sig; lemme know if it works for other folks!

www.mansionofe.com was not availible

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:47 pm

Pillywiggin wrote:
[geoduck] wrote:lemme know if it works for other folks!
www.mansionofe.com was not availible

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