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No one said that hosting and websites was a five-minute task, nor did managing DNS of domains It is complicated, what is more, in these times, whoever is not involved in these issues for their own projects, professionals or others, will be circulating further and further from the digital world or 3.0

You need to know how to handle terms, processes and tasks related to your website if you want to be successful!

Your competition is not going to advise you on how you should do them, nor will it explain to you that to send your newsletters to affiliates or subscribers from a domain of your property, managed in your Hosting, you have to write down the or particularly the MX records …what a jargon!

That is why you are reading this, to break the fear of facing domain management tasks, because it is these, well configured, that allow users to reach your website, allow your emails to leave and enter your INBOX or contact forms smoothly during the process and make everything work in sync.

This is like riding a bike remember, once you put your feet on the pedals and pick up speed Let’s see who stops you! and the most that can happen is that sometimes you collide with the curbs of the road or fall into a garden when turning left or right very quickly, but nothing serious or serious, on the contrary, these are the potholes that help you improve and master the technique.

• You can leave it as it is and the DNS that are established by default in the purchase process are assigned.
• Indicate the DNS of your Hosting, which you must previously know (see your contracting/welcome email).

The ideal is to pay attention to this purchase process because in just a few seconds or minutes you can go from buying a domain and having the DNS correctly assigned to having a purchased domain, pointing to nowhere and then giving you headaches. up to you!

Buying a domain from the Customer Area

In this section I explain how to buy and manage the DNS of a new domain from your Client Area, without going into more details of how the system works. Client Areasince it is not the objective of this article.

Whether you are a client of , or if you have not yet decided, the first step is to register in the Client Area to have not only data that identifies you as such, but also to have an Administration Area or Panel for issues related to Domains and Products purchased (not the websites, that is another panel).

Note The access data of the Client Area are not the same as those of access to your Hosting Panel (WePanel).

Once inside your Client Area, to see what domains you have contracted, if you were already a client, go to the top menu domains and within this to the submenu my domains.

You will see a list of available domains.

It is possible that there is no domain on the list yet, if you are a new client or you do not manage any in , or that one or several domains already appear on the list, if you have been with us for a long time.

You plan to buy a new domain, -that’s why we’re here lol-, and it’s from this same section where you can do it (although there are other shortcuts). If you look at the menu on the left, there are several Actions possible, and one of them is Register a New Domain.

Click on it and you will get to a screen where you can indicate which domain you want to “register”.

Important You must be clear that it is a purchase of a new domain and not a transfer of a domain that you already have in another provider.

Once you have written the domain name and verified that it is available, you can continue the purchase process.

Now pay attention! It is on this screen where the registration system asks you for the DNS to which you want to associate your new domain. We start from the basis that you have previously registered a Hosting.

If you don’t know what they are, you have two options:

1. Send a Ticket to the Support Department so that they indicate you.
2. Check your Welcome email (it is sent to you when you contract with ).

If you consult the Welcome Email either landing manual You will see that there is very useful information, among which the DNS to which your domains should point stands out.

By default you will see that the DNS that the purchase process establishes by default appear, which can be:

ns261..eu ns262..eu

Or also:

ns681..eu ns682..eu

Let’s suppose that your assigned DNS when contracting a Hosting are:

ns1341..eu ns1342..eu

Well, these are the ones you should put in each of the available nameservers:

Nameserver 1: ns1341..eu Nameserver 2: ns1342..eu

click on Continue for the order to be generated. If you have a discount code provided by or an Affiliate, it is time to put it in the corresponding box.

If you agree with the domain and the price, click the green button To confirm order.

On the next screen, check your customer and/or Company data (optional), or if the domain is for a customer of yours (Reseller or reseller), you can add a new Contact in the section Domain Registrar Information so that said domain appears in the name of the owner.

scroll to Payment details and choose your payment method, Card or Paypal.

Do not forget to mark the checkbox of Terms of Service and Conditions of Use.

click on Finish the order.

Once this process is completed, issues an Invoice and sends you an email to the authorized email account.

Important Remember that the domains, once they are registered and activated, do not have a refund and are subject to the contracted useful life period.

If you access from your Client Area to Billing, My bills you will see that you have one “Outstanding”. click on the indicated red button to access the Invoice and complete the payment, depending on the chosen method.

In the case of having chosen Paypal, you will see a button in the same Invoice in the upper right corner. Click to complete the payment.

What comes next? Well, basically, leave again, from your Client Area to domains, my domains and check if the new domain is already active.

How to check which DNS the domain points to?

There are several ways to find out:

• running a who’s from terminal (console).
• Consulting in DomainTools Where does the domain point to?
• Checking in your Client Area to domains, my domainstab nameservers.
• checking in DNS Propagation Checker which DNS returns the query.

…there are many more but I am not going to list them, the ones mentioned are enough.

Running a whois from terminal

with the command who’s you can get results from a quick query of the domain to know where it is registered and with which DNS, in addition to other data.

A quick way to obtain domain data and mainly where the DNS points.

Querying in DomainTools

There are online services that provide you with this data if your thing is not the console or terminal. For example DomainTools.

Service DomainTools has a tool to do who’s and thus consult which DNS a domain points to, in addition to other data.

A very useful online tool that you should have at hand if you regularly work with domains.

Checking in your Client Area, My Domains

From your Client Area you can always verify that DNS has a certain domain assigned. To be able to see this information, the domain must be managed by (if you are a client of course), since it may be the case that you have one or more domains using them with websites hosted by , but you have administrative control of the domain with a external provider.

access your Client Area to the top menu Domains, submenu my domains and in the list of domains that appears click on the green button Active to access its details.

Note that the DNS to which the domain you are querying currently responds to is shown at the bottom.

Checking in DNS Propagation Checker

Another good online service where you can find out which DNS the domain responds to, as well as A, MX, CNAME, TXT records, etc. is the one offered by which allows you to check the propagation after changing the DNS.

This online tool is quite visual and allows you to quickly see if a domain’s DNS change has already been propagated, detect points where there is no propagation (restriction or node problems) or it is pending propagation because the change is recent.

There are other similar tools that you can try and that also provide you with very useful information:

How to change the DNS from the Client Area

You have bought a domain or you have transferred it from another provider, and it is very likely that the domain, even though it is already active in , does not point the DNS to your Hosting, which translates into:

• You do not see your website or Pack installed from the domain url.
• You cannot send or receive emails in your Hosting (Webmail) or in your email client.
• You cannot connect by FTP to your Hosting from the main domain, or from an additional “new” domain.

These are common scenarios that you face when you have bought a new domain and you have not done your homework, as I explained above, pointing the domain to the correct DNS when you bought it, or after moving it, your domain is still pointing to Hosting previous and you can not use it in the Hosting contracted in while you do not write it down well.

If your Hosting has the following DNS:

ns261..eu ns262..eu

Or also:

ns681..eu ns682..eu

And the real DNS of the Hosting where you stay are, for example:

ns1341..eu ns1342..eu

You will have to change them from the Client AreaDomains, my domainstab nameservers of the selected domain (click on the green “Active” button).

Eliminate those that appear (all, without fear) and put your DNS.

click on Change nameservers and wait for the spread.

propagation times

The DNS change, as a general rule, can take up to 48 hours so that your domain is already 100% operational from any point on the Internet, although the usual thing is that in a few hours the domain will already work and be pointing to the Hosting.

If 4 or 6 hours have passed and you still cannot access the domain or it does not point to the Hosting, because you do not see the web or the emails do not work, you can try to restart your ADSL Router and your computer to eliminate the DNS cache or ok empty it.

The domains .es we know that they are the ones that take the longest to activate or apply DNS changes.

For these domains, the period that NIC.es gives is 48 hours to formalize a change of this type of domain, so you will have to wait for this indicated period to verify if the DNS propagation problem materializes or persists.

Top TLD domains (com, net, org) normally propagate and function normally within the next 4 hours after the DNS change, although it can always…