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Top : PaidDNS

Questions
  1. What is DNS and what will it let me do?
  2. What nameservers should my domain name use?
  3. What are A, MX, TXT, and CNAME records? Do you support other resource records?
  4. Do you offer Dynamic DNS service?
  5. What is the difference between using a CNAME and redirection?
  6. What is a host, host name and host record?
  7. I set my MX record to point to my computer, but I am not getting mail.
  8. Can I use Assorted, Ltd mail forwarding along with Paid DNS?
  9. How to set up directDNS?
  10. How to create A, MX, or CNAME record?
  11. I did not change any settings, why am I not getting emails anymore?
  12. Why can not directDNS provide reverse lookups?
  13. Why would I want to set up CNAMEs instead of A records?
  14. I made a change to my host record, but the domain still points to the old IP address. Why?
  15. Do you offer Round-Robin distribution?
  16. Why can't I use directDNS to direct traffic to a specific port number?
  17. I set mydomain.com and mail.mydomain.com as mail servers, but my mails bounced, why?
  18. How do I renew the directDNS service for my domain?
  19. How often are your DNS servers updated with changes I make via your website?
  20. When I use directDNS, is my domain hosted on multiple (redundant) servers or just one?
  21. Will Assorted, Ltd mail servers relay mail to my mail server?
  22. Will your servers allow other servers to slave/zone transfer my domain from it?
  23. Why cannot I use private IP address?

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