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Buying only a domain, with no hosting yet: what you can and cannot do

You can. A domain registered on its own is yours and stays reserved, but on its own it shows no website and receives no e-mail: the domain is just the…

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A second domain for the same business: redirect, alias or separate site

Short answer: if you hold two names for the same business (another extension, the old name, a typo you registered) and there is a clear main name, the best thing…

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Accents and special characters in domain names: what is allowed, and what to do instead

The short answer: an ordinary domain name can only contain the letters a to z without accents, digits and hyphens. So a name like “cafézinho” or “coração” cannot be written…

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Someone is sending e-mail in the name of your domain: what SPF, DKIM and DMARC do about it

The short answer: sending an e-mail that looks as if it comes from [email protected] is trivial: the sender address is written freely, like the return address on a letter. To…

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Forwarding to a personal Gmail or Hotmail, or reading the domain mailbox directly

The short answer: forwarding your domain mail to a personal Gmail or Hotmail looks like the simplest way to have everything in one place, but it comes at a cost:…

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The domain you want is already taken: what you can do, and what to avoid

The short answer: a name that is already registered cannot be registered again. But “taken” means different things: the name may be in use, parked and unused, or about to…

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What to write in a support ticket for a site, e-mail, domain or invoice problem

A ticket that answers the obvious questions by itself usually gets solved in the first reply. What changes from one problem to another is what we ask for: for a…

MozOut Mozambique www.meu.mozout.co.mz › Meu MozOut › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseBackups & Migration

Testing a backup: a restore drill on a test subdomain, step by step

A copy that was never restored is a hope, not a backup. The real test is putting it back on a test subdomain, next to the real site, and seeing…

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Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS and www to the bare domain in nginx or Apache

On a VPS you choose one canonical address (for example https://yourdomain.tld) and send everything else there with a 301 redirect: HTTP to HTTPS, and www to the bare name (or…

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301 redirects when you change a page or a domain

You changed a page’s address, deleted an article or switched domain. Anyone holding the old address (in a bookmark, a search result, a link on another site) now lands on…