Domain Name Services (DNS)

Privacy is a priority and one of the most common legitimate concerns.  In order to reserve a domain name, a registrant must register their domain with an ICANN accredited registrar.  Applied I provides domain registration service.  The domain registration information provided by you as a registrant must be accurate and kept up to date.  The [...]

The instructions below explain how to update the hosts file on your PC. This is useful when trying to preview a domain before updating DNS.  You will need the domain name (eg: example.com, test.example.com) and the IP address of the target server. Make sure you close all open browser windows before doing this.  NOTE: 'hosts' is [...]

Note: If your server has a legitimate need to perform DNS recursion (example - you have applications that need to resolve external DNS), you can alternately disable and/or scope the local Windows Firewall rule that allows incoming DNS requests.   Windows 2003:  Uncheck or remove any rules for DNS, DNS.exe or exceptions for port 53. Windows 2008 [...]

  This tutorial is for client-managed Dedicated Servers or VPS servers, not running a Control Panel administration (i.e. - not running Plesk or Helm).   ** Before you set up DNS on your server, be sure you have registered your private nameservers at your Domain Registrar. Tutorials for the most common domain registrars are available [...]

There are several ways to manage your domain's DNS records. Shared Hosting, Reseller, and Fully Managed Dedicated Server/VPS clients can use our nameservers and control panel to manage DNS zones.   For all other Dedicated/VPS servers, your options are:   Install & Configure DNS service on your server Purchase DNS-only add-on (please contact our sales [...]

This question would be at your preference dependent upon how private you want the information to be.   All domain registrars register domains through Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).  The contact and registrant information for the domain registration must be accurate and made public.  The use of false information is a violation of [...]

For a DNS Update When you update the name servers for your domain name you instruct the DNS servers on the internet to point the traffic for your domain name to our DNS (or "name servers"), which are: dns1.appliedi.net dns2.appliedi.net For a Domain Transfer First off, when you use this term it usually refers to [...]