Need Help

I'm planning to register a domain name with GoDaddy.com. My problem is this, for me to be able to register the domain name, I need to add it to my webhost's nameserver, but in order to do that I need to first have the domain name registered. It seems to be a vicious circle!

Can I register the domain name, park it at GoDaddy and then after it is registered, change the nameservers to point to my website? This is the first time I'm registering a domain name, so I'm a bit clueless!

 

Yes, you can .

 

As norfstar said

 

Thanks for the quick reply's guys. I'm now the proud owner of a new domain name. Just waiting for it to propogate then I'm in business!

 

Now I have another question. I'm going to use the new domain name, to point to an existing site. In the Cpanel of my webhost, when I added the domain, it showed a message that it's pointing the new domain to the old one. Now I'm wondering if the search engines sees this or if this affects the search engines in any way?

 

Google will normally ignore the newer site name, since it is duplicate content. Other search engines may show both. I have a site with the exact setup.

 

When I type in my new domain name I'm getting a page with the following message

followed by ads and such.

I've changed the nameservers to my webhost. Is this normal behaviour whilst the new nameservers gets propogated or should I be worried that I did something wrong?

 

If you've changed the nameservers, you've nothing to worry about. Try using nslookup with a variety of different nameservers if you want to monitor your new domain's DNS propagation. It may take up to 24 hours, although these days it can take a little less time.

 

DND propagatation takes some time. On domainsite.com DNS prop is in real time.