How to get whois information of a domain name in my program?
I want to get whois information of a domain name from my c#/java programs. Is there a simple way to do this? ...
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What's the best method in ASP.NET to obtain the current domain?
Hi, I am wondering what the best way to obtain the current domain is in ASP.NET? For instance: http://www.domainname.com/subdir/ should yield http://www.domainname.com http://www.sub.domainname.com/subdir/ should yield http://sub.domainname.com As a guide, I should be able to add a url like "/Folder/Content/filename.html" (say as gen...
How do I allow a user to use their own domain name for a hosted service?
I am working on an ASP.NET MVC web app that allows people to publish content, but other than publish the content to a remote server, I want to allow people to use their domain name directly. For example, the user "Tom" can have his domain name TomSite.com point to http://www.mywebapp.com/user/tom, but the sub path will also be mapped. F...
How do I register domain names programmatically?
Any domain name registrars out there that support domain name registration using a web service or a similar functionality without them telling you to become a reseller? I don't register that many domain names and I am not interested in paying reseller fees. If I can become a reseller without paying upfront fees, that would be fine. ...
Adding a Web Domain on Windows Server 2008
Hey I recently purchased a Windows Server 2008 server, Our company will be using it as a Web Server. I have set the web site up in IIS 7.0 and I can accsess it by typing http://10.1.1.8 on the computers within the network. When I try to accsess it through the net on other computers it doesnt seem to work, But most important, How do I ...
invalid security certificate and domain names
Hello, I recently purchased a security certificate for a website valid for www.example.com but not for *.example.com (wildcard version - more expensive) The problem i have now is that although users can type http://example.com , the secure version (ssl enabled pages) https://example.com raises the invalid certificate exception - which is...
How do you check if a domain name exists ?
Not only easy ones like .com or .net, but also, .co.uk, .fr, .gov.rw ... ? Should I really make a huge mapping "tld to relevant whois server", or is there an easier way ? ...
Can I register a .it domain name for a company outside of Italy?
I've got a domain name that would work nicely with a .it domain name (e.g. redd.it). This is for a web application I'm building, which if it ever generates revenue will be for a company in the US. Is this allowed? ...
DNS: How to Dig thru the right domain name from the TLD?
I'd like to query the DNS records until get the right domain name. For instance, given www.subdomain.site.com.br, be able to dig from .br until site.com.br. Which is the most (protocol-speaking) way to achieve that? An recipe using dig/nslookup would be best. Thanks. ...
How to support custom user domains (like WordPress) in IIS/ASP.NET
I would like to know if it is possible using IIS and ASP.NET (and ideally something that might be employed on a shared hosting account, but this isn't required) to mimic WordPress.com's ability to allow end users to use their own domain names. WordPress has users who own their own domains change the domain's DNS settings to point to Wor...
Best way to determine if a domain name would be a valid in a "hosts" file?
The Windows Hosts file allows you to associate an IP to a host name that has far greater freedom than a normal Internet domain name. I'd like to create a function that determines if a given name would be a valid "host" file domain name. Based on this answer and experimentation of what works and doesn't, I came up with this function: pr...
Mysql Search for Domain Names
Hi I have a table full of domain names. I'd like to do a search that returns some kind of relevancy results on it. My problem, is that if I do a search for "cool" I want it to return "cooldomain.com", which a fulltext search, unless I'm doing it wrong, will not. Are there any fulltext options I'm unaware of that will accomplish this? I...
Skipping DNS and using IP adress in web dev as opposed to URLs.
How much time would be saved in skipping the request for the IP of a domain name? Would it be noticeable. Before anyone gets to excited i know there could be problems with using an IP as opposed to a URL in web dev like if you have multiple servers, but im just curious. ...
How to obtain Domain name via JavaScript ?
Hi, Is there a way to obtain domain name of a windows machine by using javascript in a browser (IE, FireFox, etc) ? ...
WWW or not WWW, what to choose as primary site name?
From technical perspective the only issue is traffic and incoming links (one of them should redirect to another). Now I need to choose which one should be primary. Some sites have www (google, microsoft, ruby-lang) and some without www (stackoverflow, github). Seems to me the newer do not use WWW. What to choose? Please with some exp...
Is there a pattern to define subdomain names for multilanguage websites?
I got a multilanguage website. I will have a lot of subdomain names, something like this: mysubdomain1.mysite.com, mysubdmoain2.mysite.com, mysubdomain3.mysite.com. Each one needs to be a multilanguage website, but for SEO reasons, which is the best/simple/clear method to define a subdomain/domain structure? en = english version 1) e...
Dynamically add subdomains?
Hi all, I was wondering if it's possible to dynamically add subdomains that point to dynamic IP addresses, and how I would go about doing that? In other words, "how is dyndns/no-ip implemented" :-)? (The part I don't get is adding/changing the DNS entries... I understand how the client sends a packet every few minutes -___-). I can tell...
Word-separating algorithm
What is the algorithm - seemingly in use on domain parking pages - that takes a spaceless bunch of words (eg "thecarrotofcuriosity") and more-or-less correctly breaks it down into the constituent words (eg "the carrot of curiosity") ? ...
Optimal Configuration for Disgusing Identity of Scraping
I'm running a bunch of scripts that are scraping data from a website. For reasons I won't bore you with, I can't run them all off the same host--instead I need to set up six different hosts. I want to configure my hosting setup to disguise the fact that all six hosts have the same owner. I have gotten six different shared hosting acco...
How to point a DomainName to an Apache Tomcat Server?
I have a domain name and I want to point it to a local apache tomcat server that I have installed and started on my machine(static IP) What kind of configuration I need to do with the DNS(at the website of the domain name company) and tomcat configuration files - I assume! PS. I am using Tomcat6 on a linux machine with static IP Man...